Snowpack

KDNK’s news team brings you local and regional news from the Roaring Fork Valley ... and beyond

After a warm dry winter, wildfire season looms for Western Colorado, already ravaged by the Lee and Elk fires the previous summer. The Town of Carbondale in the Roaring Fork Valley is teaming up with Dr. Hussam Mahmoud of Vanderbilt University to explore high-tech wildfire prevention.

KDNK’s news team brings you local and regional news from the Roaring Fork Valley ... and beyond.

Auden Schendler had a long career with the Aspen Skiing Company as the Environmental Affairs Director and recently published a book called Terrible Beauty. Schendler's long experience provided him razor sharp insight on climate change, corporate blame culture, and what it is to be a human being in today's world. He joins KDNK's Marilyn Gleason for a discussion on the failure of corporate America to confront the climate crisis.

KDNK’s news team brings you local and regional news from the Roaring Fork Valley ... and beyond.

KDNK’s news team brings you local and regional news from the Roaring Fork Valley ... and beyond.

Amy Hadden Marsh brings listeners local and regional news from the Roaring Fork Valley and beyond.

Amy Hadden Marsh brings you local and regional news from the Roaring Fork Valley and beyond.

Many people are aware that snowpacks - especially in the late spring - can be a key indicator for the sort of wildfire season that could be coming. Less well known is that wildfires themselves can impact snowpacks, as new research is showing. Past burns can speed melting by as much as 57 percent, and lead to snow packs disappearing up to three weeks faster.

KDNK's News Director Morgan Neely has Friday's updates, including a look at how deep snowpack is expected to impact flows into and out of Ruedi Reservoir.