The most recent gray wolf activity map was released by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) for December, showing that wolf movements from the previous month have largely stayed consistent.
Looking for a way to ring in 2025 in style? The Gunnison Valley is the place to be. Here are 10 options to spend your New Year's Eve your way.
Come spring of 2026, Gunnison County will begin the undertaking of creating a major, multi-year plan that will lay ground rules for the future development of Gunnison Valley’s main thoroughfare: the Highway 135 corridor.
Friends and family who were hoping that Gunnison’s Edwin Flores would be home for the holidays were dealt a blow over the past week. Flores, who was detained by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement in September, was deported to Mexico.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) has extended the application deadline for the youth seats on the Outdoor Equity Grant Program (OEGP) board. While the application period for non-youth seats has now closed, CPW is providing prospective youth board members (age 25 and younger) additional time to apply.
On Jan. 5, Colorado Parks and Wildlife will be opening up Requests for Proposals (RFP) for its range riding program for the 2026 season through the Colorado Vendor Self Service.
For decades, managing federal wilderness meant keeping our hands off and letting nature take its course, even when there were signs of trouble. But a pair of new studies from faculty and alumni at Western Colorado University suggests it might be time for a more nuanced approach.
Over the years, Jenny Birnie had heard that a new station was needed for ambulance and rescue crews at Gunnison Valley Health. In her role as the executive director of the GVH Foundation, she was in a unique role to get the problem fixed.
After 35 years with Colorado Parks and Wildlife, longtime wildlife technician Dan Zadra is stepping into retirement with a deep sense of gratitude and a lifetime’s worth of stories from the woods, rivers, and wildlife areas he has tended across the Gunnison Basin. For a man who didn’t originally plan on this career, Zadra now says he wouldn't trade a single day of it.
The Mill Creek Ranch in the Ohio Creek Valley is at it again with their annual Christmas-themed painted hay bale. Sandy Guerreri started painting these more than 20 years ago and puts them at the end of her driveway for the public to enjoy as they pass by the ranch. (Submitted photo)
The City of Gunnison announced this week that it is rolling out significant updates to its sales tax administration and business licensing requirements, which take effect Jan. 1.
An Olympic berth and a place in ski mountaineering history were on the line last week when Western Colorado University graduate Cam Smith and teammate Anna Gibson took gold in the mixed relay at the ISMF Ski Mountaineering World Cup on Dec. 6 at Solitude Mountain Resort.
If Western Colorado University’s campus is any reflection of the wider world, then you’ll see and hear about 30 percent fewer birds on campus today than you would have in 1970. That’s according to a landmark 2019 study suggesting the native bird population is down by about three billion breeding adults, with devastating losses in every region.
Sustainable Crested Butte has announced it will close its operations effective Dec. 31. In a press release issued this week, the organization’s leadership expressed their heartfelt appreciation to the community, citing years of unwavering support and collective dedication that turned Crested Butte into a beacon for sustainability and waste reduction.
The Upper Gunnison River Water Conservancy District (UGRWCD) is accepting applications for its District grant funding program until 5 p.m. on February 16, 2026.
Last Sunday was cool and sunny as 17 volunteer scientists spread out to look for birds. For 52 years this Christmas time tradition has been carried out in the Gunnison Valley. The effort is part of a larger nationwide and international scientific effort by the Audubon Society to gather reliable data on the status of bird populations that has been going on for 126 years.
The Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison (GMUG) National Forests’ Gunnison Ranger District is renewing the annual winter closure for the Almont Triangle area, which will span from Dec. 12 at 12 a.m. to April 30 at 11:59 p.m., and each subsequent year through 2030 from Dec. 1 at 12 a.m. to April 30 at 11:59 p.m.
On Dec. 11, 2025, Colorado Parks and Wildlife re-released gray wolf 2403 in Grand County after it was captured by the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish in the state of New Mexico.
As the interim guidelines for the Colorado River approach their expiration date, negotiations are under way among the seven Colorado River Basin states. The current guidelines, which have been active since 2007, will reach their terminus in 2026. Federal officials are urging the involved states to reach a consensus on how to move forward under new guidelines—ideally by February.
It was pouring rain and nearly dark outside when Sally Romero finally left her office after a long day at work. Her husband was out running the kids to practice and she was thinking about dinner. Then she saw someone sitting on the steps outside her house, shivering and soaked to the bone.