March 7, 2014 – The Western Slope Conservation Center and Elsewhere Studios are seeking a local Western Slope artist to create a public art installation on a chain-link fence at the Paonia River Park this summer. The Conservation Center, who manages the Paonia River Park, was awarded grants [...]
March 13, 2014 – For over a decade, Western Slope Conservation Center has been working to improve and enhance public access to the North Fork of the Gunnison River at the Paonia River Park. A Master Plan has been completed that will guide the development of the final fundamental and unique [...]
April 14, 2014 – Public lands are on the move. On April 19, join local experts for an educational hike in the Adobe Badlands Wilderness Study Area, northwest of Delta. All ages and abilities are welcome for this free, low-intensity outing, which will begin at 9 am and last approximately two [...]
April 14, 2014 – Celebrate Earth Day by visiting the rainforest of the sea. On April 22 at 6pm, marine biologist Dr. Bob Halley will give a special presentation about coral reefs at the Paonia Library. Community members of all ages are invited to dive into this colorful world. Home to 25 [...]
April 1, 2014 – In March the Western Slope Conservation Center completed a river restoration project that created new fish habitat and improved river health on the North Fork at the Paonia River Park. The project created a low-flow river channel, pools, and boulder clusters that will [...]
April 17, 2014 – Every May for the last fifteen years people have flocked from all over the North Fork, the Western Slope, and beyond, to float the river in support of local watershed conservation. The Western Slope Conservation Center’s Annual River Awareness Float Trip Fundraiser is one [...]
June 24, 2014 – The Paradise Theatre in Paonia re-opened its doors three weeks ago after months of renovations and equipment upgrades and is now beginning to fill its calendar for the summer. One of the first major programs will be a summer documentary film series in partnership with the [...]
June 25, 2014 – Hundreds of cars rolled through the County Fairgrounds parking lot in Hotchkiss on Saturday, June 14, to unload what amounted to 19,854 pounds of unwanted electronics. In just four hours, televisions the size of truck beds, dinosaur computer monitors, boxes of broken cell [...]
New Clean Air Rules Proposed for the Oil and Gas Industry Will Help Protect Air Quality in Delta County But Oil and Gas Lobby Groups and Some Western Slope Counties are Opposing the New Regulations! BACKGROUND Governor Hickenlooper has proposed strong statewide air quality safeguards for the oil [...]
Areas of Critical Environmental Concern (“ACEC”) are areas where special management attention and practices is needed to protect and prevent irreparable harm to important historic, cultural, or scenic values, fish and wildlife resources or other natural systems or processes, or to [...]