Chaffee County Commissioner Keith Baker recently joined nearly 400 county leaders and partners for the National Association of Counties Western Interstate Region Conference in Utah.
Recent heavy snowfall in Colorado has improved snowpack levels and drought conditions in most of the state.
As much as 23 percent of the water flowing through the Arkansas River in Colorado comes from the Colorado River Basin, making the Colorado River crisis a concern for local residents.
Multiple snowstorms over the last couple of months have erased all drought across the mountains with dramatic improvement across the plains.
