Author: Brad Johnson Each year the CRA bestows two awards for Riparian Excellence on individuals who have shown truly exemplary effort managing, conserving, restoring, or providing education on Colorado’s riparian areas. The awardees are recognized at the annual...
Author: Rae Brownsberger The 2017 Sustaining Colorado Watersheds conference is right around the corner! As we’ve done in the past, CRA will be hosting the Post-Conference Field Workshop on Thursday, October 12. This year, we are excited to have Dr. Peter Wilcock and...
Author: Julie Ash The Colorado Stream Restoration Network’s (CSRN) workshop on Designing for Resiliency and Aquatic Organism Passage (AOP) at Road-Stream Crossings, led by US Forest Service instructors Dan Cenderelli (USFS National Stream and Aquatic Ecology Center)...
Author: Bernadette Kuhn Contributed by Bernadette Kuhn, Colorado Natural Heritage Program Denver County’s urban wetlands provide critical wetland functions such as wildlife habitat, storm water and sediment retention, and groundwater recharge in an otherwise arid and...
Author: Michael Blazewicz Contributed by Michael Blazewicz, Round River Design, LLC For most early settlements in Colorado, the benefits of settling near a river to serve as a source of drinking water, irrigation, power, mineral access, and navigation often outweighed...
Author: Randy Mandel Contributed by Randy Mandel, Senior Restoration Ecologist, Golder Associates; President, Society for Ecological Restoration, Central Rockies Chapter; Vice President, High Altitude Revegetation Committee; Chairman, Conference Planning Committee,...