Governor Jared Polis has ordered a task force to assess initial damage and recommend mitigation measures for sever drought conditions.

Drought conditions are affecting 40 of Colorado’s 64 counties, or roughly a third of the state. 

The counties in our area include: Chaffee, Saguache, Fremont, Custer and Gunnison. 

Polis’ order follows dwindling mountain snowpack, a warmer than average spring and far less precipitation that normal. 

The order also activates a state agricultural task force to determine the drought’s potential crop and cattle damage impact and the possible economic fallout for the state’s $8 billion farming and ranching industry.  Reservoir levels are dwindling in southern and southwestern Colorado, including the agricultural San Luis Valley and the Gunnison River Basin. 

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