The Colorado Environmental Film Festival comes to Paonia! Come support the Western Slope Conservation Center while indulging in 2 hours of inspiring and beautiful films. Film topics range from climate change to the bee crisis to the Grand Canyon. Drink cider, eat popcorn, and watch films with your [...]
Western Slope Conservation Center installed nine new interpretive signs at the Paonia River Park. The signs are a colorful array of watercolor paintings, helpful graphics, and educational text. They serve as an interpretive guide for visitors who wander down the River Park trail. Each sign [...]
Mountainfilm on Tour to Arrive in Paonia at the Paradise Theatre on Nov. 11th Paonia/CO– Mountainfilm on Tour brings inspiration and education about important issues to audiences around the world. The tour will soon visit Paonia at the Paradise Theatre on November 11th with documentary films that [...]
Many communities with mining legacies across the country are faced with major challenges of transitioning their local economies while also stewarding their lands and watersheds. Creative, community oriented reclamation can turn environmental liabilities into community centerpieces, generating [...]
Register online today- Click here! Although last year’s float trip was cancelled due to the weather, the Western Slope Conservation Center is excited to announce that our float trip is back! This year will mark our 16th year and we are anticipating an exciting event. Our float trip provides a [...]
The Western Slope Conservation Center has a long legacy of working towards responsible conservation solutions with unlikely partners. With the help of Arch Coal Company, we developed the Conservation Assistance Program (CAP) which we used to permanently protect over 10,000 acres of land in [...]
The Conservation Center’s mission is supported by pillars of public lands and education and outreach. Together, these two pillars give us a platform to empower our community, regardless of age, to understand the lands around them. And while we love to connect adults to nature and educate them [...]
Have a passion for the outdoors, species identification, or your local river? Perhaps all three? If you’re craving an outlet for any of these, then we have good news for you: on August 7th and 8th the Conservation Center is hosting a BioBlitz at the Paonia River Park! The goal of a [...]
June is Great Outdoors month, a national celebration of the public lands that provide us with recreation opportunities, clean water, and abundant resources. Public lands are stretched from coast to coast, strung between cities and towns, offering sanctuary and adventure, respite and thrill. [...]