Spring is in the air and one of our favorite events is right around the corner! The Western Slope Conservation Center will host its 7th Annual Conservation Days on Thursday, April 26th and Friday, April 27th. Every spring WSCC welcomes all Delta County 4th graders to experience outdoor and [...]
Western Slope Conservation Center Outreach Committee The Western Slope Conservation Center is powered by our ~600 members spread throughout the Lower Gunnison Watershed, Colorado, and beyond. As a grassroots organization, we rely on the energy and power of our members to meet our mission [...]
North Fork of the Gunnison River Environmental and Recreation Needs Assessment DOWNLOAD HERE – North Fork of the Gunnison Environmental and Recreation Needs Assessment This assessment is the product of over a year of data collection, review, and analysis of information by Western Slope [...]
Love Healthy Rivers? Get Involved. Join River Watch! For the past 15+ years, Western Slope Conservation Center volunteers have visited rivers and streams in the North Fork of the Gunnison Watershed to collect the water samples that have created the longest baseline water quality data for our area. [...]
Delta County is embarking on a multi-year process of inventorying, assessing, and mapping the recreation and public land resources in the county. The goal is for a new Trails Master Plan that can be incorporated into the Delta County Master Plan that is being developed concurrently. This is your [...]
On January 31, 2018, the Bureau of Land Management released Instruction Memorandum (IM) 2018-034, Updating Oil and Gas Leasing Reform – Land Use Planning and Lease Parcel Reviews. This IM states that it is “policy of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to simplify and streamline the [...]
The Delta County Health Department is in the middle of a five-year grant from the CDC to assess private drinking water quality from ground water sources (wells and springs). The assessment covers a 6-county region, including Delta, Montrose, and Gunnison counties. The grant covers the cost of [...]
On Friday, Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO) announced their decision to grant a $1.72 million Inspire Initiative grant to The Nature Connection. In the coming years, this grant will allow The Nature Connection and its many partners to formalize outdoor education programming across Cedaredge, [...]
