forests are the guardians of our water supply · more than just trees 256 vols = $80k ~25 youth...
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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
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A Healthy Watersheds is Good for Business
Native Hill FarmsEvan Stafford
CPRW
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Water quantity & quality are directly tied to landscape condition
• Snow• Water quality• Forests
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From snow to flow - headwaters are our largest reservoir
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Snowpack – the best leaky bucket
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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,
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Stressors in our headwaters
Inter-connected drivers• Wildfires• Drought/climate • Insect/disease• Land use/development
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Problem: change in wildfire patterns impacts more than
forests
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Working together to prioritize
Watershed Values to Protect:• Water supply• River • Forests• Communities
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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 $)
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FIRE FORESTSGetting to Landscape Scale by Reaching Across Boundaries
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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
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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
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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
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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