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One of the West's Last Free-Flowing Rivers Faces Growing Pressure as Water Demands Rise

The Yampa River in Colorado remains largely undammed, but rafters and conservationists say its future is uncertain as competition for Western water intensifies.

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This story earns its place by restoring context often stripped from water debates the Yampa is a frame, not just a fact, for understanding what shared stewardship of a common resource actually requi
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