Western Hardrock Watershed Team
What's New?
WHWT Team Summary, April 2009 now available!
WHWT Highlights in Reclamation Matters
VISTA Leader Torie Bowman featured in eJournal USA
WHWT featured in National Association of Abandoned Mine Lands Fall newsletter!
Our Mission:
WHWT is a coalition of community/watershed improvement groups, confronting the challenges that remain from historic mining in the West. We address environmental degradation and community impoverishment, providing rural mining communities with the skills and capacity they need to make their neighborhoods / watersheds better places to live and work.
Read more here.
The Lake Fork Watershed Stakeholders of Lake City, CO regularly monitor water quality in the Lake Fork of the Gunnison River with coordination from their OSM/VISTA. Palmetto Gulch, seen here, is listed on the EPA's 303d list of contaminated streams.