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Restoration a Part of Ranching in Colorado’s Yampa Valley
As far as the Knott family remembers, beavers have always been present on their ranch. Their dams, built across the sinuous channels of Trout Creek, slow and alter the flow of the water running off the snowy peaks of Colorado’s Flat Tops range. Occasionally, the Knotts will have to remove an attempted beaver dam in…
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Of Ducks and Ditches: Infrastructure and Habitat in Colorado’s North Park
Article by Casey Setash Come springtime in the West, ducklings motor around the irrigation ditches of ranching country like cars on a highway. In Colorado’s North Platte Basin, these ditch-driving ducklings depend on the infrastructure provided by the ditches as much as the ranchers who use them to irrigate their fields. The ducklings cannot fly…
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The Common Thread: People and the Rio Grande
The Intermountain West Joint Venture and Water 4 are pleased to present a new video highlighting the Rio Grande corridor in Colorado’s San Luis Valley and in Central New Mexico. Called “The Common Thread: People and the Rio Grande,” the video explores the importance of looking across boundaries to conserve the working landscapes that help…
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The Fragile Flyway: Video from Water 4
Communities of people, waterbirds, and wildlife in Colorado’s San Luis Valley and central New Mexico are linked by the life-giving waters of the Rio Grande. Wetlands along the Rio Grande and throughout the Intermountain West are increasingly scarce, with only 2 percent of this historical range remaining. These habitats are typically associated with irrigated agriculture and…
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Added NRCS Capacity Helps San Luis Valley Partners and Farmers
For farmers and ranchers along the Rio Grande in Colorado’s San Luis Valley, sometimes the only thing that stands between the river and getting water to their fields is an outdated and faulty headgate. The problem comes when their headgate project is in the middle – or at the bottom – of a lengthy list…
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Community Partnerships in Action: The Gunnison Basin, Colorado
Collaboration in Sagebrush Country This story is brought to you by the partnership between the Intermountain West Joint Venture and the Bureau of Land Management as part of a series highlighting local success stories and what made them possible. The Place In southwestern Colorado, the Gunnison Basin stretches over 2.5 million acres of gorgeous montane sagebrush country.…
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Managing Wet Areas on Agricultural Lands Handbook
The San Luis Valley Wetland Focus Area Committee (FAC) is pleased to help support the development and production of this booklet promoting management of wetlands, riparian areas, and agricultural areas towards a better and healthier ecosystem. The FAC is a group of people from various wildlife, water, and land agencies, non-profit organizations and interested citizens.…
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Leaving a Legacy
This article is a partnership production of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program—Mountain-Prairie Region and Intermountain West Joint Venture. Click here to read all four stories in this series. Spring thaw has arrived in the San Luis Valley in south-central Colorado. And, with it, comes thousands of waterbirds, migrating from their…
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Colorado Collaborative to Benefit Birds and Agriculture
by Megan Delamont Colorado is putting its best foot forward with boots on the ground for conservation. The Bird Conservancy of the Rockies is partnering with the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), Colorado Parks and Wildlife, National Fish & Wildlife Foundation, USFWS-Partners for Fish & Wildlife, Ducks Unlimited, and the Intermountain West Joint Venture (IWJV) in…
