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Watershed Education Program

"If you don't know where you are, you don't know who you are"  - Wendell  Berry



We work locally to inspire and inform our regional citizens and help turn them into stewards who care for and protect their surroundings and do their business with the health of the San Miguel Watershed in mind. Our watershed is a one million acre basin through which flows the San Miguel River, from its headwaters in the 14,000 foot alpine peaks above Telluride to its confluence with the Dolores River in red rock canyon country at 5,000 feet elevation. Over 60% of the San Miguel Watershed is public land, including some of the nation's most beautiful and biologically intact landscapes. But there are many pressures on these high, dry, fragile ecosystems, as our watershed is also one of the two fastest growing areas on the Colorado Plateau and faces tremendous growth and change.
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