OUR VISION
We believe the Copper River watershed can have a vibrant, healthy future.
Do you have invasive plants to manage in 2026? Apply for our mini-grant to help cover the costs. The purpose of the Alaska Invasive Plant Mini-Grant Program is to supplement local funds and resources to assist in the identification, control and education of invasive plant infestations in Alaska.
Funds will be available for non-federal organizations during the 2026 field season for invasive plant management and outreach projects across Alaska.
👉🏼 Proposal submittal deadline is Friday, December 19th, 2025, by 5:00 pm AKST
See the full RFP and Budget Form on our website at https://copperriver.org/programs/invasive-plant-management/ak-invasive-plant-mini-grant-program/
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Contact ashley@copperriver.org for more information or to submit a proposal.
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#GivingTuesday #GivingThanks THANK YOU for supporting CRWP 🧡
CORDOVA - Prince William Sound Science Center is hosting a watch party of the Science Night event on December 4th, 5:30-8:00pm! They will show the live Zoom broadcast of the talks and host a tide pooling program during the break: “Sea stars and see stars!”
For more information, visit https://www.pwsrcac.org/science-night/
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Sharing information 👉 The Alaska Community Development Corporation will be in Cordova next month to offer free home weatherization for families that qualify. For more information, call (907) 746-5680 or apply at alaskacdc.org.
On Giving Tuesday, consider the salmon.
Salmon make a long journey from the sea, up the Copper River, then into smaller tributaries to reach the cold, clean water of their ancestral spawning grounds. Many of those passages are blocked by old and failing culverts, which means fewer fish for the communities that depend on them.
Your Giving Tuesday donation helps clear the way for salmon so more fish can spawn and return to our rivers. Help us meet our goal to raise $3,000 by the end of Giving Tuesday (Today!!) to help open a blocked passage for salmon.
🐟 🐟 Donate today by clicking our bio link and selecting the Donate to CRWP button. 🐟 🐟
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Old and failing culverts prevent salmon from reaching the clean, cold streams they rely on. Every blocked passage means fewer salmon making the journey home to their ancestral spawning grounds—and fewer fish for the communities, cultures, and traditions that depend on them.
On Giving Tuesday, our goal is to raise $3,000 by the end of the day to clear the way for salmon so more fish can come home to spawn.
🐟 🐟 Will you donate to help clear the way for salmon? Just click the link in our bio above and select the Donate to CRWP button!
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Wishing you and yours an abundant, cozy day of connection and gratitude.
From this altitude, it`s a little easier to comprehend the vast carving, braiding, and depositing the Copper River is doing as it drains into the Delta that is over fifty miles wide. The river carries so much — salmon upriver to the smaller spawning tributaries, and tons of silt, sediment, and nutrients downriver where it feeds the lush wetlands. People and communities throughout the entire watershed depend on this river, one way or another. It`s is a mighty river in a vast land, and from this altitude — a beautiful work of art.
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📷 Darcy Saiget/CRWP - The Copper River above the the Copper River Highway crossing near Cordova, November 2025.
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CRWP is honored to have received an Outreach Award from Alaska Invasive Species Partnership (AKISP) during the Alaska Invasive Species Workshop in Anchorage October 28-30. We were in good company with so many people across Alaska working hard to fight invasive plants in our state.
Colleen Merrick, CRWP/CRNA Climate Change Coordinator, presented a workshop: Building Local Capacity Through Invasive Species Management in the Copper River Watershed, and received the Outreach Award for our organization.
Thank you to everyone at AKISP for the award, and for working hard to get the word out about the importance of managing invasive plants in Alaska.
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📷 Amanda Jackson/CRWP - The floatable weed smackdown with volunteers on the Gulkana River in July, 2025.
CORDOVA - TONIGHT (Thursday, November 20th) join us at the Prince William Sound Science Center at 5:30pm - 6:30pm for a project update on the Eyak Lake Weir Replacement Project.
We will share what to expect as we prepare for construction and how this important fish passage and community infrastructure project is progressing.
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📷 Photo 1 is the "before" image of the weir in its current state. Photo 2 is a rendering of the Eyak Lake Weir Replacement and what it could look like after the project is completed.
Happy GIS Day - a day dedicated to sharing, teaching, and inspiring others with GIS!
We`re so lucky to have GIS Specialist Ashley Taylor on the team at CRWP. "CRWP uses GIS across all programs and projects in the Copper River region. GIS and maps are integral to the work we do at CRWP and help us communicate, share, and engage folks in our work, which can be challenging to do when working across such a large, complex region. " —Ashley Taylor
We did a short Q&A with Ashley to learn more about her work and why she chose to go into the field of GIS. You can read it here and find links to some of her wonderful work: https://copperriver.org/2025/11/18/ashley-taylor-gis-specialist/
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📷 Photo 1: Culvert Mapper for the Copper River watershed, created by Ashley Taylor. Photo 2 by Nelly Hand: Ashley mapping Coho spawning beds in Eyak Lake, Cordova.
The Copper River Watershed Project is issuing a Request for Proposals (RFP) from qualified organizations for invasive plant management and outreach projects across Alaska. Funds will be available for non-federal organizations for the 2026 field season.
👉🏼 Proposal submittal deadline is Friday, December 19th, 2025, by 5:00 pm AKST
See the full RFP and Budget Form on our website at https://copperriver.org/programs/invasive-plant-management/ak-invasive-plant-mini-grant-program/
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Contact ashley@copperriver.org for more information or to submit a proposal.
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#RFP #InvasivePlantManagement #AlaskaInvasivePlants
Help Us Reach Our Year-End Fundraising Goal!
Your gift helps replace a failing culvert and reopens an important salmon passage. Help us reach our $150,000 year end goal and donate by midnight on December 31!
Explore our Interactive Story Map!
Watch our Annual Meeting Presentation to get the full update on the progress and projects of the Copper River Watershed Project.
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