Hotter, drier conditions on Colorado’s super-parched high plains this week drove state officials to order an emergency salvage operation to stop “catastrophic fish kill” as irrigators draw do…
by agricultural producers around the state reached a crisis point at Queens Reservoir — east of Colorado Springs and north of Lamar in Kiowa County — forcing Colorado Parks and Wildlife crews to intervene to salvage stocked fish.
The system also includes the Neenoshe, Neegrande and Neesopah reservoirs — fed by canals running 60 miles from the Arkansas River near La Junta. “Queens is drying up. There’s nothing we can do about it. The irrigators decided they need the water,” CPW spokesman Bill Vogrin said. “We don’t want the fish to go to waste.”
“There’s a lot of fish in there,” Vogrin said. “We hope we’ve caught the bulk of them. We need the public’s help.”Jim Diamond, left, and his wife Sally Jones-Diamond check the wheat during the harvest season at a farm in Akron, Colorado on Friday, July 15, 2022. They said drought has caused their current crop to grow only about half its usual size.Meanwhile, ranchers have been selling off portions of their cattle herds, state officials said, as in other parts of the state.
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