Jacob Richards

Jacob Richards is a contributor to Writers on the Range, writersontherange.org, an independent nonprofit dedicated to spurring conversation about the West. He is an outdoor guide and writer and lives in Fruita, Colorado.

The Gunnison River flows into Blue Mesa Reservoir on March 25, 2026, near Gunnison. Low snowpack in the area is adding to drought concerns across the Colorado River Basin. Below the dam parts of the lower Gunnison River could run dry in October. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)

Mourning the lower Gunnison River. Parts will likely run dry by October (抖阴ap)

August 25, 2026 at 4:00 p.m.

By October a big portion of the lower Gunnison River in western Colorado will be dry. The official term is 鈥渇ully dewatered.鈥�

Aspen, Colorado consistently tops the list of the most expensive places in the world to live on March 4, 2024. Nestled in the Roaring Fork Valley, Aspen boasts one of the highest concentrations of ultra-expensive real estate globally, intensifying the struggle for affordable housing options among the area's workforce in the ski town. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)

抖阴ap: What fighting the “greedheads” in Aspen can teach the rest of Colorado

May 29, 2024 at 8:18 a.m.

Now, even humble Grand Junction is undergoing Aspenification despite being over two hours from the glitz of Telluride or Aspen.

A bicyclist rides past a new port-a-potty along Boulder Creek on Friday. The city has placed four portable toilets in areas around the creek in a new attempt to cut down on human waste in areas frequented by the homeless.

抖阴ap: Our luxuries — like flushing toilets — are fragile, as the wilderness reminds us

November 21, 2023 at 1:32 p.m.

I鈥檝e met a lot of people from all over the country, and, sad to say, too many seem oblivious to how scarce clean water is in the outback and also...

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