NEWS & UPDATES

By Heather Mills, Agriculture Program Manager On January 22nd, Central Colorado Conservancy joined the Innovations Hub Webinar Series hosted by the Jornada Experimental Range at New Mexico State University. Located in southern New Mexico, the Jornada is one of the oldest continuously operating rangeland research facilities in the world, with more than a century of leadership in arid land ecology and grazing management. The Innovations Hub series convenes producers, researche

By Harmony Jump, Natural Resources Conservation Manager The Arkansas River Community Preserve is the result of decades of vision, partnership, and community commitment. In the 1990s, the Lake County Open Space Initiative (LCOSI) was formed to address rapid growth in Lake County and identify priority lands for protection. Among the most important was a stretch of high-quality wildlife habitat along the Arkansas River that now forms the heart of the Preserve. Central Colorado C

By Nathan Ward, Upper Arkansas Watershed Partnership Coordinator Imagine you are a trout in the Arkansas River. It doesn’t much matter what kind of trout you are, a Brown or a Rainbow. You are a trout, swimming in the cold water looking for the perfect place to spawn. And then you smell it, or feel it, or whatever trout do, and you turn west into the South Arkansas River on the south side of Salida, and swim rapidly into this clear, clean tributary. It feels perfect, right