CAA: Flood irrigation in the Yampa Valley

CAA: Flood irrigation in the Yampa Valley

A snowflake drifts from the quiet breath of the Rockies and settles among countless others, blanketing the valley in white. Through winter’s long patience, that snow yields to something precious: water. With the thaw, millions of droplets stir and join the ancient rhythm of the Yampa, a river born of mountain snowmelt that swells each spring through widening valleys, past sagebrush plains and wandering wildlife. Most rush down tributaries to the…