OUR VISION
We believe the Copper River watershed can have a vibrant, healthy future.
Since 2010, the Copper River Watershed Project has awarded two $1000 scholarships annually in the spring to one student from a school in the Copper Basin (Glennallen, Kenny Lake or Slana High Schools) and one graduating student from Cordova High School. Homeschool students in the region are also eligible to apply, as well as students who have spent a significant portion of their schooling in the Copper River watershed or students who have significant ties to the region.
Applications for the 2025 Scholarships are open now through April 4, 2025!
Homeschool students in the region are also eligible to apply, as well as students who have spent a significant portion of their schooling in the Copper River watershed or students who have significant ties to the region.
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Find details and download the application packet by clicking our bio link and selecting the 2025 Application button!
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📷 CRWP - Kate Morse presenting a "big" scholarship check to Anika Witsoe in 2020.
Love the Copper River watershed? We do too!! ❤
Acts of love and kindness are everywhere in our watershed, thanks to everyday people like you. You give opportunities to youth in our region by supporting Salmon in the Classroom, Adopt-a-Fry, and the Copper River Stewardship Program. You help purchase equipment and supplies for stream temperature monitoring in our tributaries. Volunteers give their time to pull invasive plants from our sandbars and shores. You envision and help work for a watershed with no barriers, no blocks for baby and juvenile salmon swimming upstream to healthy rearing habitat.
That`s a lot of love!
From our hearts to yours - thank you for all you do to keep our watershed thriving for people and fish!
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If you`d like to donate to support stewardship work in the Copper River region, tap our bio link and click the Donate button!
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We celebrate Women and Girls in Science Day! Well... actually, we celebrate that every day at CRWP!
We are lucky to have a powerhouse team of women trained in science working to solve watershed issues related to fish passage, climate change, and resource management.
On staff at CRWP, we have Kirsti Jurica, Hydrology & Watershed Restoration scientist; Ashley Taylor, GIS & Data Specialist; Kate Morse, Executive Director and watershed champion; Amanda Jackson, Watershed Stewardship Program Manager; Amy Scudder, trained in the art and science of partnerships; Colleen Merrick, Climate Change Coordinator; Alexis Cooper making the fine science of accounting look easy; Kim Casavan managing all things operations. This team works hard on Watershed Education, Fish Passage, and Invasive Species Management projects.
Cheers to the women and girls in science creating solutions for the challenging issues in our world.
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Learn more about International Day of Women and Girls in Science here: https://www.womeninscienceday.org/
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Learn more about the CRWP team at https://copperriver.org/about-us/staff/
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📷 CRWP Staff / Photo 1 - Kirsti Jurica with YETI youth studying aquatic organisms in Little Tonsina River. Photo 2 - CRWP staff working in the field with Prince Williams Sound Science Center Summer Camp youth, 2024. Photo 3 - 5th-grade students in Cordova releasing salmon fry they raised in the classroom tank. Photo 4 - GIS Specialist Ashley Taylor mapping salmon spawning beds in Eyak Lake, Cordova.
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More fun photos from CRWP staff!
The ice has been fantastic this year! Our Executive Director Kate Morse and her family took advantage of the great conditions last weekend, and ice skated at Saddlebag Glacier, which was a new place and adventure for Kate after 22 years of being in Cordova! The family selfie was taken at 27 Mile on the Copper River Highway with the frozen Copper River behind them.
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We are sad to report that our Eyak Lake Weir camera was taken, and we would be so grateful for its return.
The camera is used to monitor ice conditions and water levels at the weir and inform contractors of expected winter conditions at the weir project site. It is an important tool that affects many people working on the weir replacement project.
#CordovaAlaska #missingcamera
The last two weeks have been very stressful for a lot of nonprofit organizations due to the challenges of the federal administration`s chaos. We are reeling from it and grateful for our incredible staff of very talented, tenacious watershed lovers who are finding a way through it all.
Part of finding a way through means getting outside and having fun in the watershed that we work so hard for.
Our accounting rock star Alexis Cooper and Operations Manager Kim Casavan spent some time ice skating at Eyak Lake on a gorgeous day. May you find smooth ice, beautiful skies, warm smiles, cool friends, and lots of stunning light in the coming days.
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At the end of January, our Watershed Stewardship Manager Amanda Jackson, delivered 200 Coho salmon eggs to the Glennallen Upstream Learning Home Education Headquarters and demonstrated tank maintenance to some of the students. Copper River School District Superintendent Theresa Laville stopped in to see the program in action. Mrs. Laurie Blair from Upstream Learning has been a returning classroom salmon tank host and helps care for the salmon with her students every year.
Thank you, Mrs. Blair and all the teachers who support Salmon in the Classroom, for giving students a chance to experience this fun program!
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Tap our bio link and select the Salmon in the Classroom button to discover more about this program!
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📷 Laurie Blair/CRSD - CRWP`s Amanda Jackson teaching Upstream Learning students how to maintain the classroom tank to support healthy Coho salmon eggs.
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We are celebrating a birthday for the first alevin in the Copper Basin!
The Salmon in the Classroom Program Upstream Learning tank hatched the first alevin! These Coho salmon eggs are at an accumulated temperature unit (ATU) of 420, which means they have been incubating for approximately 108 days at an average temp of 5-10 degrees celsius each day. Those daily temperatures are added together every day to monitor their ATU unit. As you can tell from the chart, 420 is an appropriate time for a Coho to hatch. We try to monitor the status of ATUs by mimicking the cold water temps that the salmon would experience in the rivers by chilling the water in the tanks, but sometimes transport and deliveries can alter the temp and hatch time. We are excited to be celebrating many more birthdays soon!
Can you estimate how many days until they emerge as frys!
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Tap our bio link and select the Salmon in the Classroom Program button to find out more about this program!
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📷 Laurie Blair/CRSD: Photo 1 - Sally Salmon wishes the first baby alevin happy birthday! Photo 2 - Salmon eggs with the first hatch of alevin peeking out. Photo 3 - The Salmon Growing Periods chart.
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Consider choosing the Copper River Watershed Project when you #PickClickGive this year!
Working together is how we keep our watershed thriving now and in the future. Your gift gets boots on the ground and students in the field for fish habitat restoration work, data collection, culvert replacements, and invasive plant management. One click is all it takes!
PFD applications are open until March 31st at: https://pfd.alaska.gov/
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We are so grateful for our new salmon tank program partnership with ahtnaintertribal (AITRC)! We welcome AITRC as our new Coho-st to the Glennallen Middle School in Mr. Williams` class. Bailey Roberts, AITRC`s new Education and Outreach Coordinator, joined Amanda in the classroom to assist with delivery and introduce herself to the students. Amanda and Bailey will be engaging with the classroom to provide salmon curriculum activities and hands-on learning opportunities. We are excited to collaborate during salmon fry release days in May!
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Tap our bio link and select the Salmon in the Classroom button to find more information on this program.
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📷 1-3 Bailey Roberts/AITRC - Amanda Jackson delivering salmon eggs to the Glennallen Middle School classroom.
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It`s #PickClickGive season in Alaska! When you apply for a PFD, consider choosing the Copper River Watershed Project. Your gift creates opportunities for youth and adults to wade out into the watershed and study the things that impact our region and way of life. With just a click, you can help sustain the Copper River watershed now and in the future for people and fish.
PFD applications are open until March 31st at: https://pfd.alaska.gov/
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Our Watershed Stewardship Program Manager, Amanda Jackson, attended the copperrivernativeassociation Job Fair on January 22nd. She had a blast at the Glennallen School, engaging with students and the public of the Copper Basin who were interested in jobs around the watershed.
Amanda has actively received job applications since the CRNA Job Fair from students of the Copper River School District! Thank you Copper River Native Association, for hosting the event and creating an opportunity to inspire young stewards. We are looking forward to this year’s team of plant program technicians and interns! You can find our job applications on our website at https://copperriver.org/about-us/job-opportunities/
Amanda`s booth neighbor, Marjorie Lodwick with wrangellstenps, invited Amanda to the ranger selfie station. We love our partnerships!
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📷 Amanda Jackson/CRWP - Amanda Jackson attending the 2025 CRNA Job Fair.
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Have you heard?
Alaskans – when you apply for a PFD this year, consider choosing the Copper River Watershed Project!
Your gift creates opportunities for youth and adults to wade out into the watershed and study the things that impact our region and way of life. With just a click, you can help sustain the Copper River watershed now and in the future for people and fish.
Apply for your PFD here.
We’d like to send a big shoutout to the Wrangell Institute for Science and Environment (WISE) and Wrangell-St. Elias National Park & Preserve (WRST-NPS) for being our coho-st in the salmon tank program this year! We are able to deliver and engage with 6 classrooms across the Copper River watershed thanks to their assistance to the program! And a great big thank you to all of our Salmon in the Classroom Partners and Sponsors. We couldn’t do this without you!
(Click the button to view a full list of Salmon Tank Partners and Sponsors!)
Our Programs Making a Difference
