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Jennifer [email protected]
970-222-5754
Coalition for the Poudre River WatershedOur mission is to improve & maintain the ecological health of the Poudre River watershed through community collaboration
Forests Are the Guardians of Our Water Supply
A Healthy Watersheds is Good for Business
Native Hill FarmsEvan Stafford
CPRW
Water quantity & quality are directly tied to landscape condition
• Snow• Water quality• Forests
From snow to flow - headwaters are our largest reservoir
Snowpack – the best leaky bucket
Poudre Headwaters = Water Treatment Plant
Water quality is generally good• Some trends since 2012:
• Increasing nutrients• Increasing dissolved solids• Increasing organic carbon
• Emerging Contaminants low• But some reaches listed:
• Arsenic, E. coli, cadmium,
Stressors in our headwaters
Inter-connected drivers• Wildfires• Drought/climate • Insect/disease• Land use/development
Problem: change in wildfire patterns impacts more than
forests
Working together to prioritize
Watershed Values to Protect:• Water supply• River • Forests• Communities
Skin~1.5 mi restorationflooding & erosion
$300,000 grant funding
Seaman Post Fire1 ac
Stabilized sediment delta threatening reservoir
UT3 sediment (60- tons) to the Poudre
& Munroe$200k
Matched to $45k City Ft Collins $
ElkhornTributary to Mainstem
420 ac completed613 ac planned
4 partners$568,000
$51 K Ft Collins $
Horsetooth35 ac complete
~100 ac planned5 partners
$125k CPRW (grants & Ft Co $)
FIRE FORESTSGetting to Landscape Scale by Reaching Across Boundaries
ImpactMORE THAN JUST TREES256 vols = $80K~25 youth corps trained~975 people engaged
MEASURABLE CHANGE
Fuels significantly reducedwildfire behavior moderated
~$1,671,000 raised for implementation
Return on local gov investment:$1: ~$6
River Health Assessment Framework
• Filling in data gaps for river corridor condition• Based on Ft Collins effort• One set of comparable metrics for the whole watershed
People Driven Data• Baseline data for key resilience tracking
• Data to better understanding how prescribed fires may affect water quality
• Volunteer training to begin this spring
• Collections 1x/mo
THANK YOU• Connect with us!
• Tours • E-newsletters• Facebook• www.poudrewatershed.org
Watersheds: "that area of land, a bounded hydrologic system, within which all living things are inextricably linked by their common water course and where, as humans settled, simple logic demanded that they become part of a community.“
John Wesley Powell