News and Updates

June 2024 Stream Restoration Workshop

In June 2024, the Colorado Healthy Headwaters Working Group with the support of Water For Colorado hosted a two-day process-based stream restoration workshop in Carbondale, Colorado. Click here to access all the workshop's incredible resources including PowerPoint presentations, recordings of the sessions, and other relevant resources. 

HB24-1379 Legislation - New State Dredge & Fill Permit Program Similar to CWA 404 

• Memo on SB23-270 and HB24-1379

• Understanding New Stream & Wetlands Colorado Legislation Webinar Recording| September 2024
• A Colorado Program the Colorado Way | Audubon Rockies | June 2024

• HB24-1379, Regulate Dredge & Fill Activities in State Waters

• Final HB24-1379 Signed Law

• Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment Updates, Engagement, and Rulemaking Process

SB23-270 Stream Bill Legislation 

• Colorado Water Legislator Webinar: Colorado’s Proposed Stream Restoration Legislation Part 1 | February 2, 2023

• Colorado Water Legislator Webinar: Colorado’s Proposed Stream Restoration Legislation Part 2 | March 9, 2023

• Stream Restoration Legislation Will Benefit Birds and People in Colorado | June 21, 2023

• SB23-270 Webinar Recording | December 4, 2023

• Stream Restoration Touches the Ground Through People | December 7, 2023

• Training Manual: Translating SB23-270 Projects to Restore Natural Steam Systems, version 1.0 | June 2024

Resources

Background

• Low-tech Process-based Restoration Fact Sheet

• One-Stop Shop for Zeedyk Resources | Partners in the Sage

Research

• Colorado River Restoration Initiative | National Forest Foundation

• Low-tech Process-based Restoration Report | J. Corday 2024

• Rediscovering, Reevaluating, and Restoring Lost River-Wetland Corridors | Wohl et al

• Gunnison Valley Riverscapes

• Low-tech riparian restoration hits the ground in Idaho - Sage Grouse Initiative

Articles

• Beavers Offer Help for Western Waters

• Boosting Water Reliability for Birds and People 

Colorado Process-based Restoration Practitioners 

• EcoMetrics, Buena Vista

• Bio-Logic,  Montrose

• Watershed Science & Design, Boulder

• Stillwater Sciences, Boulder & Ft Collins

• Round River Design, Salida

• Arable Earth, Gunnison 

• RangeWorks, Gunnison

• River Science, Canon City

To become a member of the Healthy Headwaters Working Group, email, Jackie Corday, Abby Burk, or Fay Hartman.