Experiential Learning: Get Your Hands dirty!

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River Watch citizen scientist, Kate Nichols, collects a sample.
The Lake Fork Valley Conservancy has ramped up its watershed education program. We partner with the Bureau of Land Management, Lake City Community School, Lake City's Hearts & Spades Community Garden, and River Watch Colorado to deepen understanding of the environment by trips into the field.

Our numerous public information and planning meetings have illuminated topics such as water quality, mine permitting, cadmium impacts on ptarmigan, river restoration, and trout habitat.

Check out our Citizen's Guides, linked below right, for a clear overview of Colorado's role as a headwaters state. Visit our Publications & Resources page for in-depth research on mined lands, river habitats, and water quality.
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Philip Heliotes and former OSM/VISTA/current boardmember Casey Carrigan pose proudly with their new fence at a work day in 2012.

Hearts & Spades Community Garden 

In 2011, LFVC's 2010-2012 Americorps OSM/VISTA Casey Carrigan worked with a group of four civic-minded green thumbs to found Hearts & Spades.

LFVC is proud to be part of this community initiative, and continues to support its efforts to empower residents to grow their own fresh, healthy, affordable produce.

We look forward to developing Arbor Day and Earth Day programming for spring 2013. Keep your ear to the ground!

Visit our Hearts & Spades events page
Find Hearts & Spades on Facebook
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A citizen sampling team takes in gorgeous views while collecting macroinvertebrates.

Colorado River Watch

Our citizen science program grows understanding of river habitat, health, and chemistry through sample collection in the field and experiments in the lab.

This data our team collects is used in policy-making decisions in Denver, particularly the implementation of the Clean Water Act.

Our team is a branch of Colorado River Watch, a non-profit volunteer group that teaches Coloradans the skills to be stewards of their most important natural resource.

JOIN OUR CITIZEN SCIENCE TEAM and join a group more than 70,000 statewide that are taking steps to keep more than 300 rivers clean.

Sign up here!
What We Do

Research & Monitoring

Restoration

Land Conservation

Education
Colorado Water Foundation Citizen Guides

Helpful, easy to understand Citizen's Guides to water issues are available for free via the Colorado Foundation for Water Education's website. Click a link below to read one of the eight available guides, or stop by LFVC's office for a printed copy!

Colorado's Interstate Compacts

Denver Basin Groundwater

Colorado's Environmental Era

Colorado's Water Heritage

Colorado Water Conservation

Colorado's Water Quality Protection

Colorado Water Law, 3rd Edition

Colorado Climate Change