What IS A Watershed?
Imagine you are a rain cloud and decide to pour rain over the top of the highest mountain near you. All of the land that guides the water towards a particular network of creeks, ponds, rivers and reservoirs is this watershed. Over the tops of these mountain divides, other watershed collect water and flow down different paths. As you look down on the land from the sky you see that a watershed is so much more than the water you let loose and land that you hover over. A watershed can include: all of the habitat and wildlife that are supported by this water, land, and sky; the people who live alongside the wildlife and play, hunt, and raise their families; the much larger expanse of downstream communities, businesses, factories, and agriculture that rely on fresh water from the mountains above them. These components are all part of the Big Thompson watershed.1
We create watershed health by:
Developing regional long term management plans along all 80 miles of river across the Big Thompson watershed
Actively restoring the most vulnerable sections of the river and forest, and
Building environmental awareness and stewardship of the region with our local communities, water dependant businesses, and visiting recreationalists