The rolling high plains east of Colorado Springs (map) saw plenty of change before the "landmen" came. Ranchland that once stretched three or four miles between homes filled in with residential ...

The map shows the change in groundwater levels for various management districts in the Northern High Plains Basin over the last 10 years. The water level data is collected from wells in the areas.

So we were trying to get a sense of that interface (between the mountains and the plains) and why it's high.” They have samples ranging from 19 million years ago and newer. “Pretty young in ...

Hotter, drier conditions on Colorado’s super-parched high plains this week drove state officials to order an emergency salvage operation to stop “catastrophic fish kill” as irrigators draw down a ...