Recently secured funding for vital water conservation projects in southwest Colorado is put on chopping block by the Trump administration.

I’m thrilled to share my involvement in a significant win for water conservation in Southwest Colorado! The Southwestern Water Conservation District (SWCD) has secured $25.6M from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s Environmental Drought Mitigation Program to support 17 impactful projects in the Dolores and San Juan River Basins.

Get the award-winning Geologic Trail Maps of the Grand Canyon on your phone with AvenzaMaps! Get the award-winning Geologic Trail Maps of the Grand Canyon on your phone with AvenzaMaps!

Anna Riling is a geologist-turned-cartographer who owns Four Corners Mapping, based in Durango, Colorado. Her business creates custom cartography for policy advocacy campaigns and print media, designs interactive web mapping applications and ArcGIS Story Maps stories, and produces geologic and topographic trail maps. In this interview, Riling talks about her move to mapmaking, her work updating the Multimodal Transportation Plan for Durango, and the power of maps in influencing decisions that matter.

The Bicycle and Pedestrian Crashes Map helps to illustrate that many crashes occurred at intersections and along arterial roads, and that the main thoroughfare through the City acts as an obstacle to multimodal traffic. With this map, City planners could identify at a glance where bicycle and pedestrian connections are needed, as well as where protected bicycle lanes or parallel corridors could help mitigate crashes.

The image shows the Equisetalean strobilus specimen on the left, and a modern horsetail Strobilus reproductive structure on the right (source: National Park Service).

Four Corners Mapping featured in Esri StoryScape magazine!