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Spotlight: Stream Management Plan Resource Library
Author: Kim Lennberg Contributed by Kim Lennberg, Alba Watershed Consulting Colorado’s Water Plan, adopted in 2015, includes a goal that 80 percent of locally prioritized rivers across the state be covered by Stream Management Plans (SMP) by 2030. This objective...
Front Range Watershed Days: Participant Review
Author: Stacy Wolff Contributed by Stacy Wolff, K-5 Science Lab Teacher, Flagstaff Academy Much like a drop of water that falls as precipitation in our mountains and continues on its journey through our watershed, my journey that brought me to the first Front Range...
Flood Recovery Blog Series Post 6 Project Implementation and Construction: The Streamcrest Example
Post Date: 11/4/2019 Contributed by Corey Engen, Parker Scherman, and Curt Bender, FlyWater, Inc. THE STREAMCREST IMPLEMENTATION STORY I want to start off with a thank you to the Colorado Riparian Association (CRA) for including FlyWater, inc. and the Streamcrest...
The Colorado Watershed Planning Toolbox A Community of Stewards: The Streamcrest Example
Author: Sarah Marshall Post Date: 6/11/2019 Contributed by Sarah Marshall, Ecohydrologist, Colorado Natural Heritage Program at Colorado State University The Colorado Natural Heritage Program recently rolled out its Watershed Planning Toolbox, consisting of an online...
Recap: CRA Social Featuring Laura Kroeger (UDFCD)
Author: Kim Lennberg Post Date: 6/17/2019 Contributed by Kim Lennberg, Principal/Watershed Scientist, Alba Watershed Consulting CRA’s summer social last week at Upslope Brewing in Boulder was a huge success. Turnout was great, the crowd was enthusiastic, the beers and...
Flood Recovery Blog Series Post 5 Resilient Stream Restoration Design: The Streamcrest Example
Author: Julie Ash Post Date: 5/8/2019 Contributed by Julie Ash, Stillwater Sciences Dear Reader: if you’ve been following CRA’s 2013 Flood Recovery Blog Series since Post 1, with the Streamcrest project highlighted as a flood recovery success story since Post 3…well...
Flood Recovery Blog Series Post 4: A Community of Stewards: The Streamcrest Example
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...
Flood Recovery Blog Series Post 3: 2013 Flood Aftermath and Master Planning Effort, Streamcrest Case Study: Stories from a Geomorphologist Who Lived It
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...
Flood Recovery Blog Series Post 2: 2013 Flood Recovery Overview
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...
Introducing the 2013 Flood Recovery Blog Series
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...