Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) recently released the first Beaver Conservation and Management Strategy - Download it here. This is an exciting step forward in the effort to embrace beaver as a keystone species in our watersheds and increase the number of beavers living and thriving in our streams and rivers. Of course, there will still be conflicts between beaver and humans. Beavers create ponds in order to protect themselves and store food for winter. Ponds sometimes caus

The UAWP recently received notice that a Colorado Water Conservation Board Water Plan grant was awarded to Trout Unlimited to move our South Arkansas River Restoration Project (SARRP) from 60 to 100% design and permitting on the Two Rivers reach. Match funding will be provided by the Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) Fishing is Fun grant program. The Two Rivers reach includes 2,000 feet of the South Arkansas River directly upstream of the confluence with the mainstem Arkansas

With funding from the Colorado Water Conservation Board Water Plan Grant program, and matching funds from the Chaffee County Common Ground Fund and the Hutchinson Ranch LLC, construction has started on the UAWP project to improve the irrigation infrastructure on the Del Monte Ditch south of Poncha Springs, Colorado. With an in-stream diversion in Poncha Creek, a tributary of the Arkansas River in Chaffee County, the Del Monte Ditch supplies the Hutchinson Ranch, an 800 acre w

Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) has been working hard for the last year on Colorado's first ever Beaver Conservation and Management Strategy. It's has just been released in draft form and they are asking for comments on the draft for the next 30 days. You can find it here - Beaver Conservation and Management Strategy.