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Colorado Watershed
Network
Promoting the health of Colorado's
watersheds through nonbiased community based science & support
Founded in 1997, the Colorado Watershed Network (CWN)
is a 501(c)3 nonprofit. We work to promote the health of Colorado’s
watersheds through nonbiased and community based science. CWN does this
by creating feedback loops between our three programs,
Education & Outreach,
Conservation & Restoration, and
Research & Monitoring to ensure
that our practices are scientifically sound and never just sit on the
shelf. We are able to accomplish our mission by working with major
partners, such as the Colorado Division of Wildlife, the Natural
Resources Conservation Service, and the Colorado Water Quality
Monitoring Council.
CWN's major accomplishments include:
River Watch, the largest statewide volunteer water quality
monitoring program in the country and only one whose data are used for
regulatory purposes; the
Private Lands Wildlife Biologist Program which ensures wildlife
habitat conservation under the 2002 Farm Bill; and the
Colorado Data Sharing Network, a n
interactive online water quality monitoring database. We encourage you
to visit each program's page to learn more
about what we do.
CWN will continue to strive hard to help our community— made up of
volunteers, farmers, ranchers, recreational users, environmentalists,
school groups, developers, watershed groups, and various agencies—
achieve healthy watersheds, with sound solutions that make sense on a
local level. We believe this is the only way we can create long lasting
and powerful solutions.
Photos: Upper Right -
Hallet Peak Sprague Lake, courtesy of Ken Burkert
Left - Maroon Bells, courtesy of Jacob Bornstein |
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Newsletter Archive
Colorado Watershed Network's biannual newsletter, The Confluence
Fall 2007 (7.8mb)
Spring 2007 (658kb)
Fall 2006
(3mb)
Spring
2006
(3mb)
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River
Watch Database is Up and Running! |
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Database Finally Ready for Public Use: After months of frustration and
rebuilding our database, the River Watch online database is finally ready.
River Watch participants can enter data and download results from the River
Watch
website.
Use our query options and graph making tools to conduct online water quality
research from over 300 stations statewide!
For more
on River Watch, please click
here.
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Monte Vista High School students collect water
samples for River Watch
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CWN
Receives Grant for Statewide Water Education Coordinator
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CWN received a grant from the Colorado Water
Conservation Board to coordinate Project WET across the state of Colorado. Jo
Scarbeary is our new Project WET coordinator. She is helping to deliver programs
to a broad array of educators across the state. Combining
this and our River Watch Program should enable CWN to be the #1 statewide K-12
water educator. We will help manage 150 education facilitators statewide, along
with Project WILD and Project Learning Tree coordinators, and introduce water
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Conservation Program Receives
National NRCS Grant! |
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1,300
Acres of Wetland Protected May 2nd, 2006: Chanda Garcia's proposal to the
Wetland Reserve Enhancement Program was one of five funded projects nationally,
receiving $1,040,000 for Southwest Willow Flycatcher habitat. Chanda is one of
CWN's Private Land Wildlife Biologists, working on conservation projects to
protect wildlife under the 2002 Farm bill.
Her
project was the only one featured in the NRCS write up, "The Colorado project
involves the purchase of 1,300 acres adjacent to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service (USFWS) Alamosa National Wildlife Refuge. This project will protect and
restore habitat for the endangered Southwest Willow Flycatcher. The USFWS has
agreed to provide all annual monitoring and management of the easement for the
next 30 years, saving NRCS over $86,000 in technical assistance costs."
The
announcement is on the national NRCS homepage:
www.nrcs.usda.gov/news/releases/2006/wrepfy2006.html.
For more
on CWN's Conservation & Restoration programs, please click
here. |
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Photo by USFS, Southwest Willow Flycatcher. Follow
this link for more information about this endangered species:
http://www.biologicaldiversity.org |
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