Evanston, Wyoming • Adrian Hunolt and his family run a cattle ranch on 8,500 acres along a bend in the Bear River, just a few miles from its headwaters in the Uinta Mountains. The river is the ...

The Great Salt Lake has lost more than 15 billion cubic yards of water over the past three decades, is getting shallower at the rate of 4 inches a year, and an analysis of its water budget suggests ...

Spokane got exactly what it wanted from President Warren G. Harding’s visit. In Harding’s speech at the Spokane Armory, he gave a ringing endorsement of the proposed Columbia Basin irrigation project.

Michael Hanson left to right, Michael Kirsch, (North Unit Irrigation District), Dave Moldal (Energy Trust of Oregon), Craig Horrell (Central Oregon Irrigation District and Deschutes Basin Board of ...

Ground lies fallow in Yakima County in Central Washington. Irrigators with junior water rights are facing severe water shortages. (Courtesy of Jim Willard) The Bureau of Reclamation projected Yakima ...

200 cattle ranchers and hay farmers in the upper Klamath Basin are preparing for irrigation shutoffs as the Klamath Tribes take control of senior water rights for the first time in a century. Share ...