Author: Jessie Olson Post Date: 11/27/2018 Contributed by Jessie Olson, Lefthand Watershed Oversight Group While the 2013 flood was devastating for so many, it also provided a huge opportunity for the community to come together. The Streamcrest neighborhood is an...
Author: Luke Swan Post Date: 10/2/2018 Contributed by Luke Swan, Inter-Fluve “DOES ANYONE KNOW A GEOMORPHOLOGIST!?” a Jamestown resident asked with some urgency… Many of you have likely heard this story before – I only have a handful of stories and tend to repeat the...
Author: Chris Sturm Post Date: 5/14/2018 The following is a press release published in September 2017 by the Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB) to provide background and context for the September 2013 Front Range flood recovery effort and CRA’s flood recovery...
The five-year anniversary of the September 2013 Front Range flood is this fall, if you can believe it! In celebration and reflection, the Colorado Riparian Association is devoting our first blog post series to the massive flood recovery effort spearheaded by the...
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: Mark Beardsley Can streams be healthy? Can they be unhealthy? If so what does this mean? By streams, of course, we are talking about places with flowing water. Rivers and Creeks and things like that. Naturally, we include riparian areas when speaking of...