Sat, Jul 19
|Centennial State Wildlife Area
5th Annual Sportsperson Wet Meadow Restoration Project
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers is joined by Colorado Parks and Wildlife, Upper Gunnison River Water Conservancy District, and Pact Outdoors for their 5th Annual Sportsperson Wet Meadow Restoration Project held on July 19th at 8:30 am in the Centennial State Wildlife Area west of Gunnison.
Time & Location
Jul 19, 2025, 8:30 AM – 2:00 PM
Centennial State Wildlife Area, Gunnison, CO 81230, USA
About the event
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers is joined by Colorado Parks and Wildlife, Upper Gunnison River Water Conservancy District, and Pact Outdoors for their 5th Annual Sportsperson Wet Meadow Restoration Project.
Using “stick and stone” structures volunteers will restore a degraded wet meadow area in the Centennial State Wildlife Area (SWA) (google map directions) on July 19 from 8:30 am - 2 pm. During this volunteer event, participants will get hands-on experience in the field of Low-tech Process-Base Restoration (LTPBR) by assisting with the construction of Zeedyk rock structures to prevent excessive erosion and enhance wet meadows and small-scale streams within the sagebrush community on Centennial SWA (Gunnison, Colorado).
Participants will learn more about the ongoing collaborative efforts of the Gunnison Basin Wet Meadow Restoration and Resiliency Building (WMRRB) project, which is a public-private partnership to implement on-the-ground climate change adaptation strategies. A main focus of the WMRRB project is to enhance brood-rearing…
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