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Protected: Saving Trees & Fighting Fire with the Dawson Project
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Without Boundaries: A Partnership of Fire, Water, and Forest Health
Explore this feature story about the Two Watersheds – Three Rivers – Two States Cohesive Strategy Partnership (2-3-2 Partnership), a collaborative effort between many groups invested in the ecological and social health of a five-million-acre landscape. Story and photos by Hannah Nikonow, IWJV Communications and Marketing Coordinator There’s a place that spans three rivers and…
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Linking Irrigation and Groundwater in the White River Basin
Q&A With hydrologist Dr. Ryan Bailey Irrigators in northwestern Colorado’s White River Basin had a question: what, exactly, was happening to the water that seeped past the grass growing in their hay meadows and back into the watershed? For ages, they’d seen evidence of groundwater recharge, like springs staying wet long after the land dried…
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At the Woodland’s Edge: Restoration and Complexity in Colorado’s Piceance Basin
At the Woodland’s Edge:Restoration and Complexity in Colorado’s Piceance Basin Between two ecosystems, a conservation partnership maintains balance for deer, birds, fire, and people By Megan McGrath – Intermountain West Joint VenturePhotos by Mariah McIntosh On a chilly April morning in the Piceance Basin region of northwest Colorado, two young women stand on an overlook…
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BLM and IWJV Workshop Woodland Management in Colorado
In early April, staff from the Intermountain West Joint Venture (IWJV) hosted workshops in western Colorado with Bureau of Land Management (BLM) staff focused on balancing management objectives in pinyon-juniper woodlands. Back-to-back workshops in Meeker, Montrose, and Grand Junction brought together fuels, wildlife, and other resource staff grappling with management challenges of habitat management and…
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Field Notes: Celebrating a Partner’s Life
Tina Dennison & Lori Reed Field Notes is a compilation of first-person essays composed across many years by IWJV partners, board members, and staff. Our professional work in collaborative conservation is inspired by our personal experiences, relationships, and conversations in the field. That “field” can look very different depending on the work at hand: Sometimes it…
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Taking to the Sky to Defend the Sage
In the most northwestern county in Colorado, healthy sagebrush habitat abounds. Large herds of big game move across the land and migratory birds such as sage thrashers and Brewer’s sparrows return, year after year, to spend the warmer months. As threats facing the West’s sagebrush biome expand, however, partners in Moffat County are working quickly…
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Jim Gammonley Champions Adaptation to Colorado’s Changing Resources
Changing water resources in the San Luis Valley of Colorado have reduced the amount of nesting and migratory habitat. Decreased precipitation, increased water usage, and declining aquifers have further complicated the issue. The San Luis Valley is the headwaters of the Rio Grande and a vital stopover for migrating birds. Jim Gammonley, the Avian Researcher…
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Targeted Conservation Program Benefits Community, Wildlife in the San Luis Valley
The final project funded by the 2022 round of the “Enhancing Flood Irrigation on the Rio Grande Corridor” Targeted Conservation Program (TCP) in Colorado’s San Luis Valley is an extensive one. A series of sloughs on the project property need to hold diverted irrigation water each April for the farmer to have a successful growing…
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New Tech is a Nexus for Native Fish, Agriculture
In a high-elevation hay meadow somewhere in the mountains of Colorado, cold, clear water is diverted out of a river and into an irrigation ditch. It flows through the hand-dug ditch mostly unimpeded—that is, until an electrical pulse tells a powerful magnet to release a hinged sheet of metal, which flops unceremoniously down into the…
