OUR VISION
We believe the Copper River watershed can have a vibrant, healthy future.
CORDOVA - The next Fishing Gear Recycling event is coming up on September 22 and September 23!
Your old fishing web can be repurposed into usable items like knives, hats, and all kinds of useful things when you bring it in for recycling. And it save space in our landfill too!
🥫While you`re at it, bring in your aluminum cans for recycling. When you recycle cans, the money from those cans goes towards supporting the fishing web recycling effort. How cool is that?
♻️Drop your fishing web at the Baler on Whitshed Road from 10am - 3pm on these dates:
– September 22 and 23
– October 13 and 14
Web has to be free of cork lines, weed lines, lead lines, purse lines, chafe gear and hangings but
corks, leads, chafe and purse lines can be recycled separately.
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👉🏼 We need volunteers to help process fishing web. If you can donate some time, please sign up for shifts on this google form and let us know when you`re available to help. THANK YOU for helping!
📋 Sign up to volunteer here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfjwievoedzOHqnJJXkrmaWW_V2wicWoY8XrC97-7eQXEuBvw/viewform
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Learn more about our recycling program at https://copperriver.org/programs/recycling/
#fishingwebrecycling #recyclingmatters #repurpose #CordovaAlaska
CORDOVA - After a great day of fishing, head to copperriverbrewing where $1 from each purchase of the Sandpiper Cream Ale during the month of September will go toward supporting healthy habitat!
🍻Copper River Brewing will donate $1 from each purchase of Sandpiper Cream Ale to CRWP to help with habitat restoration work. A healthy habitat means more healthy fish!
🎣 And if you want to give even more to support the fishing you love, you can add $1, $3, or $5 to your tab at checkout to help open more miles of fish passage in the Copper River watershed.
😁 Drink responsibly. Donate recklessly.
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Find out more about our fish habitat restoration work at https://copperriver.org/programs/fish-habitat-restoration/
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#CopperRiverBrewing #CordovaAlaska #BeerSpecial #SalmonHabitatRestoration
🥫COPPER BASIN - Do you have some time to give on Friday? We need at least 2 volunteers to help at the ROAR site Friday (tomorrow) at 11 am to manage our local recycling spot in Glennallen.
♻️Recycling decreases impact on our landfill and reuses materials and resources - a win-win!
👉🏼Please contact info@copperriver.org if you can share some of your time tomorrow to help tidy up the ROAR site in Glennallen.
🫶🏽 Thank you!
📷 Amanda Jackson/CRWP - ROAR site in Glennallen full with bags of aluminum cans.
#Glennallen #ROAR #Recyle #VolunteerOpportunity
This is cool! Max Osborn was a participant in the Copper River Stewardship Program this summer. The focus of the trip was "how we can observe change over time and communicate that change to others."
For their final project, Max created a very artful zine about orange hawkweed and possible ways to control its spread. We love his artwork and think you might too! Copies are available at the Copper River Watershed Project headquarters on Main Street in Cordova. Check it out!
For more information on the Copper River Stewardship Program, visit https://copperriver.org/programs/watershed-education/copper-river-stewardship-program/
📷 Max Osborn and their final project zine on orange hawkweed.
#CopperRiverStewardshipProgram #studentart #invasivespecies #orangehawkweed #Cordova
CORDOVA - Love salmon? Like beer?
🍻Drop into Copper River Brewing! When you buy the Sandpiper Cream Ale during the month of September, copperriverbrewing will donate $1 from each purchase to CRWP in support of a healthy salmon habitat!
🎣 And if you want to give even more to sustain a healthy habitat for the fishing you love, you can add $1, $3, or $5 to your tab at checkout to help open more miles of fish passage in the Copper River watershed.
😁 Drink responsibly. Donate recklessly.
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Find out more about our fish habitat restoration work at https://copperriver.org/programs/fish-habitat-restoration/
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#CopperRiverBrewing #CordovaAlaska #BeerSpecial #SalmonHabitatRestoration
COPPER BASIN - We`re looking for volunteers to help with the ROAR recycling site this month.
CRWP is a Recycling Our Area Resources (R.O.A.R) sponsor for the month of September, and we could use some help to keep the drop-off site in Glennallen tidy. Volunteering some time is a great way to support a healthy watershed and help decrease impact on our landfill.
Recycling matters. Sign up to volunteer with us! Contact info@copperriver.org
📷 Amanda Jackson/CRWP - ROAR site in Glennallen full with bags of aluminum cans.
#Glennallen #ROAR #Recyle #VolunteerOpportunity
CORDOVA - Thursday, September 3, Recycle your old fishing web and turn it into useful things like hats, shoes, and knives instead of being dumped in our landfill!
♻️Drop your fishing web at the Baler on Whitshed Road from 1pm - 3pm on these dates:
– September 3
– September 22 and 23
– October 13 and 14
Web has to be free of cork lines, weed lines, lead lines, purse lines, chafe gear and hangings but
corks, leads, chafe and purse lines can be recycled separately.
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👉🏼 Do you have time to volunteer to help process fishing gear? If so, we need you! Sign up for shifts on this google form and let us know when you`re available to help. And THANK YOU for helping us keep broken and old fishing web out of the landfill.
📋 Sign up to volunteer here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfjwievoedzOHqnJJXkrmaWW_V2wicWoY8XrC97-7eQXEuBvw/viewform
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🥫While you`re at it, bring your aluminum cans! Recycling your cans supports the net recycling program, so drop off your aluminum at the Baler at the same time!
Learn more about our recycling program at https://copperriver.org/programs/recycling/
#fishingwebrecycling #recyclingmatters #repurpose #CordovaAlaska
🌾 Sending a big THANK YOU out to our awesome Copper Basin Invasive Plant Technician Christopher for coming on board this summer to help us manage invasive plants and support the native seed program!
👏🏼 Christopher helped remove 11 acres of white sweetclover from the Copper Basin region and along the banks of the Gulkana River, and pulled over 80 bags of invasive plants this season. Christopher also spent two weeks in the field with our partners at the copperrivernativeassociation (CRNA) and ahtnaintertribal (AITRC) supporting native seed scouting and collection work as part of CRWP`s involvement in the national Seeds of Success program.
August 31 is Christopher`s last day with us this season.
🫶🏽 We thank you for the good work all summer Christopher, and for being a great team member!
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📷 Christopher & Ian Lingard/CRWP - Christopher with volunteers on the Gulkana River pulling white sweetclover.
#staffshoutout #CopperBasin #invasiveplantmanagement #invasiveplantteam
Information Share — There is an interesting presentation next week, September 2 at 7pm , on Ahtna/Dene Place Names surrounding Glacial Lake Atna. This is part the 2026 Science Lecture Series hosted by wise.education.alaska.
Dr. Kari, American linguist and Professor Emeritus with the Alaska Native Language Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, will introduce his work on the place names of ancient Lake Atna, and how they connect with Dene prehistory.
#WISE #lecture
We`re excited to welcome Moshe to our team for the remainder of the season as an Invasive Plant Technician in Cordova!
Last weekend, Moshe joined an invasive plant management team who flew out to Kayak Island to continue the work of controlling invasive yellow flag iris and Canada thistle. They found less yellow flag iris than last year! It was the first time Moshe had ever ridden in a helicopter or visited the island, which is truly stunning.
"Overall, it was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. From the wild ruggedness of the shores to the masses of driftwood to the towering pinnacle and the razor sharp mountain ridge that defines the island, the beauty of Kayak Island is incomparable. While eating dinner in the bunkhouse and hearing the pouring rain outside, I felt like we were someplace truly wild." —Moshe
Welcome to the team Moshe!
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📷 Moshe/CRWP - Kayak Island.
#kayakisland #princewilliamsound #invasiveplantmanagement
‼️ CORDOVA - We just got word that the upcoming Web Recycling event has been RESCHEDULED for SEPTEMBER 3!
♻️Drop your fishing web at the Baler on Whitshed Road from 1pm - 3pm on these dates:
– September 3
– September 22 and 23
– October 13 and 14
Web has to be free of cork lines, weed lines, lead lines, purse lines, chafe gear and hangings but
corks, leads, chafe and purse lines can be recycled separately.
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👉🏼 Do you have time to volunteer to help process fishing gear? If so, we need you! Sign up for shifts on this google form and let us know when you`re available to help. And THANK YOU for helping us keep broken and old fishing web out of the landfill.
📋 Sign up to volunteer here: https://docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLSfjwievoedzOH.../viewform
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🥫While you`re at it, bring your aluminum cans! Recycling your cans supports the net recycling program, so drop off your aluminum at the Baler at the same time!
Learn more about our recycling program at https://copperriver.org/programs/recycling/
#fishingwebrecycling #recyclingmatters #repurpose #CordovaAlaska
As the summer leans towards fall the days can be frenetic. Fish need to be caught and smoked. Berries need picking. Garden needs harvesting. Doing the work it can sometimes be easy to forget how amazingly abundant our watershed is, and how lucky we are to be here in this place.
Don`t worry....there`s still plenty of summer to go. But as the native plants set seed, and the freezer fills, we`re taking a moment to send some good wishes and thanks to the waters and land that support our communities.
Happy Harvesting!
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📷 Michelle McAfee/CRWP - Copper River Delta near Cordova.
#CopperRiverWatershed #summerharvest #thankful
We’re Hiring!
The Copper River Watershed Project is seeking a Stewardship Engagement Specialist to provide educational stewardship experiences for youth and adult participants throughout the Copper River watershed.
Programs will largely be field-based and involve hands-on stewardship activities, including stream and lake clean-ups, habitat restoration, removal of invasive species, collection of native seeds, involving youth and adults in activities that result in positive, tangible impacts to the watershed.
⬇️ For more information on how to apply, click the button below.
Recycle your used Fishing Web September 22 & 23!
Recycling your used fishing gears will turn it into useful things like shoes and hats instead of filling up our landfill!
– October 13 and 14
Web has to be free of cork lines, weed lines, lead lines, purse lines, chafe gear and hangings but corks, leads, chafe and purse lines can be recycled separately.
🥫While you’re at it, bring your aluminum cans! Recycling your cans supports the net recycling program, so drop off your aluminum at the Baler at the same time!
We need volunteers to help process fishing gear! Sign up for shifts on this google form and let us know when you’re available to help. THANK YOU for helping keep fishing web out of our landfill!
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