PW aquatic biologist Jim White, right, stars in the new short film "The Fish & The Flame" about his effort to recover rare San Juan cutthroat trout from private land during the 416 Fire in 2018 in Durango. Read more
Applications Now Open for MSI and Wright-Ingraham Institute's Field Stations Program. Field Stations is an immersive integrative studies workshop that focuses on climate change and related issues in ecologically-critical places. The Wright-Ingraham Institute invites creatives, early-career candidates, and graduate and post-graduate students from all fields, for whom this topic is crucial to their practice, to apply to the 2022 workshop in the San Juan Basin in Colorado and New Mexico, USA. Applications are due February 22 at 11:59 PM MT. For more information click here.
The updated Nonpoint Source Management Plan is available for public comment. Comments can be submitted here and are due by 03/02/2022 for an Administrative Action Hearing via Zoom 04/11/2022 @ 9 am.
Center for Collaborative Conservation’s Situation Assessment for a Network of Forest Collaborative Groups in Colorado is now available. View the full assessment here.
For the 5th year in a row, Colorado Water Trust and the Colorado Water Conservation Board are launching the Request for Water Process to identify potential streamflow restoration projects throughout the state. The Request for Water Process is confidential, completely voluntary, and open to all types of water right owners including agricultural, municipal, industrial, and other water users. Preliminary offers of water are due June 30, 2022. Learn more about the request for water process.
April 6, 2022 - Please save the date for the Society of Wetland Scientists Rocky Mountain Chapter's annual meeting in Golden, Colorado. Registration will begin in February. For those unfamiliar with the annual meeting, the event is a full day of speakers presenting on wetland topics, such as restoration, project highlights, regulation and policy, and research. The meeting also includes morning refreshments, lunch, and an evening social event with adult beverages, snacks, and live music. It is a day of education, networking, and fun! Please contact the Chapter if you are interested in presenting and/or sponsoring the event at swsrockymtn@gmail.com.
The Colorado Corn Administrative Committee is collecting information for the 2023 Farm Bill Discussion. Your answers are anonymous and will help provide farmer feedback on what works and what is not working with the current farm bill as discussions for the 2023 Farm Bill take place. Your feedback will be provided to partners and elected officials. It is confidential and anonymous. The survey should take less than 15 minutes to complete. Take the survey here. And read the CCAC’s Annual Report here.