Mud Flows – what are they and why do they happen?

Vail Daily Spotlight: “A classroom in the wild: Red Hill Elementary moves outside for a new kind of learning”

Enjoy this 5/31/2021 Vail Daily feature by Ali Longwell! Read the article. 

Volunteers Needed for Upcoming Tamarisk Mitigation Project

flowering noxious weeds

Tamarisk Mitigation Project to Take Place Mid-May The tamarisk is an aggressive invasive plant that out-competes native vegetation, contributing to a number of negative impacts to riparian ecosystems. Consuming a large quantity of water annually and spreading viciously, tamarisk plants choke out native vegetation, affect resource availability, create a largely…

New Mountain Whitefish Regulation

 

Eagle Mine Pipeline Release – March 22, 2021

The natural freeze-thaw cycle associated with the warming temperatures last week caused a pipeline fitting to leak, resulting in a spill of Eagle Mine-impacted water. The leak, located at the south end of Rex Flats, has been stopped. A total of 36,000 gallons of water is estimated to have been…