OUR VISION
We believe the Copper River watershed can have a vibrant, healthy future.
Sockeye are spawning along the shore of Eyak Lake! The gravel edge in the video is the spot where Girl Scout Troop 148 recently cleaned up the beach - thank you ladies!
Long after the fish have spawned, died, and become nutrients to feed the ecosystem, the eggs they leave behind are developing under the gravel right along the shoreline. Walking, driving, and other activities along the water’s edge can potentially hurt or destroy the eggs underneath. A good thing to remember when
Recreating on the beaches of Eyak Lake.
Thank you for being a good salmon neighbor, and giving this year’s eggs a chance to hatch and grow!
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#cordovaalaska #copperriverwatershed #eyaklake #sockeye
COPPER BASIN - We`re excited to report that the old, failed culvert in a tributary of the Little Tonsina River has been removed! The driveway accessing the Bernard Creek Trail was repaired with asphalt placed at the entrance of the driveway, and the site was dewatered before heavy equipment moved in to remove the pipe.
Once complete, the project is expected to reconnect approximately 3.7 square miles of habitat upstream!
Stay tuned for more updates as the project progresses.
The contractor for this project is Blackburn Industries, LLC.
This project is funded by the mypubliclands and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( noaa ).
Project partners include Bureau of Land Management, Chugach Alaska Corporation , and the Copper River Watershed Project.
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📷 Kirsti Jurica/CRWP - Photo
#CopperBasin #RichardsonHighway #ConstructionProject #fishpassage #haibtatrestoration
🥳 We`d like to send out a big THANK YOU to Girl Scout Troop 148, and to our partners at the u.s.forestservice, for their continued stewardship of Eyak Lake`s Sunset Beach. Last week, they swept the beach of nails, glass, and trash. A huge volume of nails (from pallet fires) accumulates on that beach each summer and affects salmon spawning habitats along the shoreline.
👉🏼 You can help keep the shoreline healthy for spawning salmon too, by cleaning up nails after a fire (or anytime you feel like cleaning up the beach).
👏🏼 Girl Scout Troop 148 did a great job cleaning this beach - thank you for making a difference for the salmon and our community!
📷 Kim Casavan/CRWP - Girl Scout Troop 148 and our U.S. Forest Service partners helping clean up the beach along Eyak Lake in Cordova.
#EyakLake #CleanUp #GirlScouts #CommunityEffort #Cordova
CORDOVA - We`re all connected! Join us in celebrating the mycorrhizal partnership between plants and fungi at the Fungus Festival Artisan Market! Stop by our informational table and take home some hand-harvested local seed, including fireweed and lupine.
🌱 The table will have some of our awesome CRWP staff distributing seeds at the following times:
– Friday, 9/18: 12-4PM
– Saturday, 9/19: 1-3PM
🍄🟫 Happy Fungus Festival!
📷 Photo 1 & 2: Chicken of the Woods and Angel Wings fungi near Cordova. Photo 3 & 4: Native plants fireweed and lupine, which you can grow in your yard with seeds harvested by CRWP!
#FungusFest #CordovaAlaska #NativePlants
♻️ COPPER BASIN - We need volunteers to help at the ROAR site to manage our local recycling spot in Glennallen.
🥫Recycling keeps tons of material out of our landfill and turns it into useful things. It`s well worth the effort!
👉🏼Please contact info@copperriver.org if you can share some of your time to help keep the ROAR site tidy in Glennallen.
🫶🏽 Thank you to everyone who has volunteered so far - we really appreciate it!
📷 Kelsey Stansboro/CRWP - ROAR site in Glennallen after the volleyball team took a turn volunteering 🙂
#Glennallen #ROAR #Recyle #VolunteerOpportunity
CORDOVA - Reeling in the fish? Stop by after and unwind at copperriverbrewing!
When you buy a glass of Sandpiper Cream Ale during the month of September, $1 from each purchase 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 it`s easy to give even more to support the fishing you love at the cash register, where 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
Hey Cordova, there is a native plant seed-viewing station at the Copper River Gallery this month, for the "Kingdoms of Life" show featuring mushrooms and plants. CRWP has a display there with some of our local seed harvest that you can check out while enjoying local art!
And if you`re heading to Fungus Fest on Friday, September 18 and Saturday, September 19, stop by the Copper River Watershed Project`s information booth in the Cordova Center atrium during the Fungus Fest Artisan Market. We`ll be celebrating the connection between plants and fungi, and giving away some hand-harvested local seed.
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📷 Jillian Gold/CRWP - Youth and the young at heart checking out local seeds at CRWP`s native seed display at the Copper River Gallery.
#Cordova #FungusFest #NativeSeeds
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
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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