SPRINGFIELD, COLORADO - MAY 10: A truck drives past shuttered business on Main Street on May 10, 2026 in Springfield, Colorado. Springfield has a 12.5% poverty rate during the harshest drought in Colorado history. Baca County, ground zero of the catastrophic 1930s Dust Bowl, faces conditions eerily reminiscent of that era as Colorado Governor Jared Polis activated Phase 2 of the state's Drought Response Plan in March 2026. (Photo by Mark Makela/Getty Images)