In partnership with USDA-Agricultural Research Service, The Nature Conservancy is leading a science and monitoring network across the Colorado River Basin in effort to better understand where and how forest treatments might be able to enhance resilience to drought. This July, we’ll be combining partner resources and capacity to install two snowtography stations in southern Wyoming forests (Medicine Bow-Routt NF) that feed important snowmelt into the imperiled Colorado River Basin. These stations will be strategically placed to measure and monitor the impacts of recent pre-commercial thinning forest treatments on snowpack retention and soil moisture. The data produced at these sites will be additionally leveraged by the University of Wyoming’s WY-ACT project, meaning it will help enable local communities to better anticipate and prepare for expected changes in water availability.

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