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VIDEO: Double Award-winning Project!

Feb 24, 2015 | Division 1, Photo

This video on our YouTube channel showcases the work of the City of Fort Collins Natural Areas Department’s restoration at McMurry and North Shields Ponds, lowering unnaturally steep riverbanks and removing an abandoned diversion structure which improved the habitat...

Press Release: Video for Cache la Poudre River Restoration Project

Mar 11, 2014 | Division 1, Press Release

Contacts: John Stokes, Director, City of Fort Collins Natural Areas Department, jstokes@fcgov.com, 970-221-6263 Amy Beatie, Director, Colorado Water Trust, abeatie@ColoradoWaterTrust.org, 720-570-2897 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Video Released Highlighting Cache la Poudre...

Video Released Highlighting Cache la Poudre River Restoration Project

Mar 11, 2014 | Division 1, Photo

The Josh Ames Diversion Dam Deconstruction Project has been a key component of a larger North Shields Ponds Natural Area riparian restoration project developed by the City of Fort Collins Natural Areas Department. A time-lapse video, created by the Natural Areas...

Cache la Poudre River, Before and After

Feb 20, 2014 | Blog, Division 1

Before and after — what a difference two years can make! In March 2012, representatives from both the Colorado Water Trust and the City of Fort Collins Natural Areas Program viewed and discussed the sizable Josh Ames Diversion Dam while plotting its future...

Natural flow restored on the Cache la Poudre River

Nov 22, 2013 | Division 1, Photo

The Cache la Poudre River now flows freely past the point where the Josh Ames structure had been located. The bed of the river has been regraded and reconnected.