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For nearly 25 years, WSCC has brought the community together for Riverfest, an annual celebration featuring a lively fair and a scenic river float. While locations have varied over the years, the beautiful Paonia River Park has become the heart of the celebration.
This year, the Western Slope Conservation Center has teamed up with The Learning Council to honor the value of our local river and the importance of access to recreation on public lands. The free community fair offers something for everyone, with live music throughout the day, delicious food vendors, activities for the kiddos, and a silent auction featuring great outdoor gear! Keep the celebration going the following day with a special float trip and experience the river from a whole new perspective.
The Riverfest Float on May 31st is a unique fundraising opportunity for WSCC. You will head out onto the river from the Gunnison NCA boat ramp and spend a half-day taking in the scenes and learning interesting information about the area. For more details and to claim your spot fill out the form located HERE!
We know that winter can drag on with few events to attend. That’s why WSCC collaborates with Paradise Theatre to host films from Mountainfilm On Tour each year! Films portray a variety of environmental and adventure themes that challenge the audience to take action. The films also showcase Earth’s beauty, the challenges facing our planet, and the work communities are doing to protect the environment. The film series inform people about the state of the world and inspires them to take action. Mountainfilm On Tour is part of the annual Mountainfilm Festival that is held in Telluride, Colorado. Mountainfilm Festival is not only about the films, but to gather in a congregation of committed activists dedicated to saving our increasingly threatened planet, being immersed in art, and find the common adventure in everyone. Learn more about Mountainfilm here.
Hosted in the first quarter of the year, the annual meeting allows WSCC membership to gather for a celebration of the previous year’s accomplishments. At the meeting, we discuss major highlights of the previous year, plans for the year ahead, and thank our supporters for their invaluable contributions.
Since 2012, WSCC has participated in a delegation along with Valley Organic Growers Association and other area nonprofit organizations to bring issues, ideas, and perspectives from Western Colorado to legislators and decision makers in Washington, DC. This annual trip ensures that Delta County has a voice to represent the needs and concerns of its community, especially as it pertains to conservation, public lands, farm policy, and rural resilience.
The 5th Annual HESTIVAL was hosted once again this year at Big B’s in Hotchkiss, Colorado. HEST decided this would be a purpose-driven festival in partnership with Western Slope Conservation Center and The Conservation Alliance to celebrate protecting our public lands where we play, connect and camp.
The HESTIVAL experience is an all-inclusive, family & dog friendly event enjoying the great outdoors, mountain culture, community, connections, camping, live music and celebrating our public lands!
Western Slope Conservation Center hosts a two-day event in the spring that brings third-grade students throughout Delta County out of their classrooms and into nature for a multidisciplinary hands-on environmental education experience at Paonia River Park. Throughout the years WSCC has consistently heard from teachers that they need three things to educate their students about the environment and conservation: opportunities to bring kids outside, materials to help kids observe their natural environment, and experts to teach kids about local conservation issues. We organized Conservation Days to meet all of these needs at once. Up to ten structured learning stations, managed by local environmental educators, artists, and regional conservation experts, are set up at the Paonia River Park to engage students in a day-long immersion in fun and creative activities to experience and learn about nature and conservation.