Flaming Gorge

The body of Wayne Phillips, a missing duck hunter, was found earlier this week, reports the Delta County Independent. Two backcountry skiers were caught, buried, and killed in an avalanche near Vallecito Reservoir reports, the Colorado Avalanche Information Center. Delta is now home to a nonprofit dedicated to connecting children with foster families, according to the Delta County Independent. Hope and Home has been in Colorado for 25 years. States in the upper Colorado River Basin are asking the federal government to stop sending water downstream from a major reservoir to prop up Lake Powell.