Welcome to the Colorado River Conservation Planning Project
The Colorado River project area extends from the Utah/Colorado border to the upper limit of Lake Powell, covering 146 river miles and nearly 20,000 acres of river bottomland. The project area includes habitats for many different wildlife and fish species and human interactions. Data presented here have been developed in cooperation with land managers, resource experts and restoration professionals for use in restoration and conservation planning.
On this site you will find:
- A detailed report (see link on this page) that summarizes data sources, methods, ecology of the study area, assessment results, and recommendations for restoration approaches;
- Downloadable spatial (GIS) data collected or created for the project;
- Interactive maps showing natural resource data such as vegetation and channel classification, relative habitat quality for groups of species, threats to habitats, and relative treatment costs; and,
- Descriptions of each of the 20 river reaches in the project area and results of habitat mapping.
This project was co-sponsored by the Bureau of Land Management, the National Park Service, The Nature Conservancy, the United States Geological Survey, and Utah Forestry, Fire and State Lands, with additional funding from the Southern Rockies Landscape Conservation Cooperative.
