the Clear Creek Watershed Foundation: pioneering new approaches to sustainable watershed management.

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The Clear Creek Watershed is a vital natural resource that is relied upon by diverse ecosystems and wildlife populations, including hundreds of thousands of people!  If you live, work, or play anywhere from the alpine meadows above timberline down to Clear Creek’s confluence with the South Platte River in Denver, you are a beneficiary of a healthy Clear Creek. With its broad range of uses and impacts, there are many challenges. Help us to ensure the future of sustainable watershed management by making a donation to the Clear Creek Watershed Foundation today. The CCWF is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Send your tax-deductible donation to:

The Clear Creek Watershed Foundation
P. O. Box 1963
Idaho Springs, Colorado 80452

If you have questions, please contact us for more information.


Partnership Opportunities

Collaboration is one of our greatest assests toward getting sustainable projects done in the Clear Creek Watershed.  By working together, we can minimize duplication of efforts and maximize the limited financial resources.  To learn more about partnership opportunities with current and proposed projects, contact us


Clear Creek Watershed Sustainability Leadership Program

We are working toward development of a program to recognize outstanding efforts toward sustainability in our watershed, similar to CDPHE’s Environmental Leadership Program


Help Students Who want to Make a Difference

The Bucknam Scholarship provides financial support to a junior or senior undergraduate student who is enrolled in an area of study at an accredited college or university with a major in a field related to mine reclamation/restoration such as biology; botany; geography; geology, hydrology; environmental, range or soil science.

The Scholarship Fund honors Dave Bucknam and his passion for the out- of-doors, learning and living. Bucknam was the Director of the Colorado Office of Active and Inactive Mines, which reclaims and restores abandoned mined land.

For more information about the fund, past recipients, and fun fundraising events, please visit the scholarship's website at www.bucknam.org/scholarship, or make a donation by clicking here:

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WATER-RELATED NEWS

Colorado Watershed Assembly News

Images of Sustainability

  • Clear Creek as it runs through Clear Creek Canyon
    Clear Creek as it runs through Clear Creek Canyon
  • Maude Monroe/Donna Juanita Mine Site. Photo by Don Allen.
    The Maude Monroe/Donna Juanita Mine Site.
    Photo by Don Allen.
  • Rafting through Clear Creek Canyon. Photo courtesy Clear Creek Rafting
    Rafting through Clear Creek Canyon.
    Photo courtesy Clear Creek Rafting
  • Fishing in one of Clear Creek's Tributaries
    Fishing in Clear Creek
  • Torreys Peak, in the upper Clear Creek Watershed. Photo courtesy of 14ers.com
    Torreys Peak, in the upper Clear Creek Watershed.
    Photo courtesy of 14ers.com
  • The confluence of Clear Creek and the South Platte River in Denver
    The confluence of Clear Creek and the South Platte River in Denver
  • Coors Billboard
    Both Companies and People rely on the Clear Creek Watershed
  • Hiking in the Clear Creek Watershed
    Fourth-graders panning for gold.
  • Double-jacking at the Phoenix mine
    Double-jacking at the Phoenix mine

 

 

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