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. [...]
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 [...]
Bureau of Land Management Greg Larson, Field Manager, Uncompahgre Field Office Joseph Meyer, District Manager, Southwest District Office Gregory Shoop, Acting State Director, Colorado State Office To Whom it May Concern: Thank you for including the North Fork Alternative in the draft Uncompahgre [...]
The North Fork Watershed is Too Wild To Drill! The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Bears Ears National Monument. Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. The Greater Grand Canyon Watershed. And, of course…..The North Fork of the Gunnison in Colorado. These are just a few of the [...]
Last Wednesday, members of the Watershed Committee got the chance to visit the Paonia Reservoir Dam and portions of Fire Mountain Canal. Steve Fletcher of Fire Mountain Canal and Mark Smith of the North Fork Water Conservancy District took the group on an extensive tour of the dam [...]
Changes are coming to the Paonia Reservoir. The Bureau of Reclamation (BOR), Fire Mountain Canal Company, and North Fork Water Conservancy District (NFWCD) will host a meeting at Memorial Hall in Hotchkiss on August 15 at 7pm, to explain the work that needs to be accomplished at the Paonia [...]
Conservation Colorado released its first ever “rivers report card” this month, an assessment of the health of eight rivers across the state based on several factors including water quality, in-stream flows, and major dams. The North Fork of the Gunnison is riding in the middle of the pack [...]
