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Preserving Working Lands & Community Voices
Holistic Watershed Conversation & Collaboration
Preserving Working Lands & Community Voices
The Chewaucan Basin's open space is preserved by large, contiguous working lands, which also help support wildlife habitat and the local communities. The CWC is a volunteer group of local voices working to protect this open space and ensure the people of our communities are heard at multiple levels of decision-making.
Fostering Critical Habitat
Holistic Watershed Conversation & Collaboration
Preserving Working Lands & Community Voices
An irrigation system that mimics the historic Chewaucan Marsh uses snowmelt to spread water across the landscape. This grows livestock forage and supports community livelihoods, but also supports a vast wetland system providing critical habitat for birds traveling along the Pacific Flyway and living in the SONEC region.
Holistic Watershed Conversation & Collaboration
Holistic Watershed Conversation & Collaboration
Holistic Watershed Conversation & Collaboration
As conservation interests with a focus on Abert Lake escalate in the Chewaucan Valley, the CWC works with a technical advisory board to engage in collaborative conversations regarding the entire watershed. While water availability is a topic, the watershed has been drastically affected by harsh drought conditions and multiple catastrophic
As conservation interests with a focus on Abert Lake escalate in the Chewaucan Valley, the CWC works with a technical advisory board to engage in collaborative conversations regarding the entire watershed. While water availability is a topic, the watershed has been drastically affected by harsh drought conditions and multiple catastrophic wildfires in the last decade. The fires alone have altered this landscape and our home forever.