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Defending a Western River With Art and Collaboration

Feb 13, 2014 | Article, Division 5

Kirk Klancke has watched over Colorado’s Fraser River for decades. In the small town of Fraser, Colorado, a bronze Dwight D. Eisenhower is having a good day: Fly fishing, he has just caught a trout out of the river and is skillfully depositing it into his...

Monitoring Water Use and Operations for the Short-Term Lease

Dec 9, 2013 | Blog, Division 5

The Colorado Water Trust’s short-term lease with Winter Park Ranch Water & Sanitation District was approved as a full season lease by the Division of Water Resources in early June. Instream flow use of Winter Park Ranch’s water rights began in early July. On...

Wrapping up Request for Water 2013, Winter Park Ranch W&S/Fraser River

Dec 2, 2013 | Blog, Division 5

In what looked like it might be a dry year, Kirk Klanke put his water where his mouth was. The general manager of Winter Park Ranch Water and Sanitation District and enthusiastic Fraser River advocate rounded up some water from his own entity’s water rights to lease...

Short-term water lease to benefit Fraser River

Jul 19, 2013 | Article, Division 5

FRASER — The Fraser River may get a small hydrological boost this summer. The Winter Park Ranch Water and Sanitation District has successfully negotiated a short-term water rights lease with the Colorado Water Conservation Board and the State Engineer’s Office. The...

Fraser River Photo Gallery

Jul 16, 2013 | Division 5, Photo

Fraser River near return flow point (below meadows) Staff gage at County Road 73 on St. Louis Creek The Hammond No. 1 diversion structure on the Fraser River Confluence of St. Louis Creek and the Fraser River Kirk Klancke and Brian Epstein – clearing a cross...