UWP Communications

On Thursday, November 29, the Sherbino Theater hosted the Uncompahgre Watershed Partnership in their screening of “Watershed”, a Robert Redford film. The movie discusses issues within the Colorado River Basin, such as issues with water rights, droughts and pollution. More importantly, however, it discusses communities and businesses that are practicing water conservation! For example, the … Read more

On October 6, the UWP continued with the Re-vegetation of Rollans Park with the Ouray County Weed Manager Ron Mabry, local volunteers, and a new group of out Grand Junction called Humanists Doing Good. We started the morning meeting each other over coffee and bagels. Newly re-charged and ready to go, we began spreading humates … Read more

As of mid-September, a new Riverwatch site has been added in Ridgway so the Ridgway 3rd graders could be a part of this nation-wide initiative. For those unfamiliar with Riverwatch, essentially it’s a largely volunteer-based project that aims to gain water samples from our country’s waterways. All volunteer samplers attend a training to ensure accuracy … Read more