Stories tagged with EPD

Fri Apr 10th, 2020

Tribe’s Water Quality Program status under the stay at home order

Lisa Devore, with the Planning and Policy Program for the Colorado Air Pollution Control Division, presents updates on Tuesday, Oct. 22.

Fri Nov 8th, 2019

State, Tribe assemble on environmental policies

Shane Seibel of One Enterprise LLC, checks in on the recently planted trees and riparian vegetation along spring creek, Tuesday, June 18, his company worked to implement the restoration project earlier this spring.

Fri Jun 21st, 2019

Spring Creek restoration project benefits from rainfall

Members of the Southern Ute Tribal Council, including Chairman Christine Sage, and Vice-Chairman, Cheryl Frost take a site visit of the Beaver Creek No. 4 reclamation project, Wednesday, Sept 5. A total of five project phases have been implemented along Beaver Creek to reduce stream bank erosion and soil loss.

Fri Sep 14th, 2018

EPD sets sights on Spring Creek restoration

Detailed look at the gills of a brown trout, show evidence of debris, causing the fish to suffocate. Trout being one of the most sensitive species in the Animas River regarding the effects of water quality.

Fri Aug 3rd, 2018

Animas River hit hard in the aftermath of 416 Fire

Southern Ute Environmental Programs Division Head, Mark Hutson meets with

members of regional committee — The Southern Ute Indian Tribe/State of Colorado Environmental Commission to discuss environmental policy.

Fri May 11th, 2018

Environmental Commission looks forward

The Southern Ute Environmental Programs Division planted over 1000 trees along Stollsteimer Creek running downstream from Lake Capote.

Thu Jun 23rd, 2016

Reestablishing the forest along Stollsteimer

Environmental Programs Division Head, Tom Johnson (right) talks with RTOC attendees about a Ferricrete rock outcrop exposure during a site tour in Silverton, Colo. Thursday, June 16.

Thu Jun 23rd, 2016

EPD hosts Regional Tribal Operations Committee meeting

Pete Nylander (second from left), senior water quality specialist for the Southern Ute Environmental Programs Division, speaks with Water Resources Division Head Chuck Lawler, as Soil Conservation Technician Preston Abeyta works in Beaver Creek breaking ice and positioning rocks just off of La Plata County Road 524 north of Ignacio. Travis Wheeler (center), water resources technician, checks out the “steps” Abeyta is creating in the stream.

Wed Jan 22nd, 2014

Tribal divisions team up on Beaver Creek restoration

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