DOLORES RIVER CANYON

The Dolores River Canyon in Southwest Colorado is a contiguous landscape that is part of a broader region known as the Colorado Plateau. The Dolores River is a tributary that connects to the Colorado River system, the water source that 40 million people rely on in the Southwestern United States.

It’s not only people who depend on a healthy Dolores River ecosystem—A diversity of plants and wildlife also rely on a healthy Dolores River, including native fish, river otters, beavers, black bears, mountain lions, bighorn sheep, and a variety of songbirds. Drought and overuse pose an existential threat to this fragile riparian corridor and more protection is needed to sustain the Dolores River landscape into the future.

Hear from a native fish biologist, a county commissioner, and a healthy rivers advocate about what makes this region so special.