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Coal Mine Tours
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WSERC and Bowie Resources Team-Up
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WSERC and Bowie Resources, LLC teamed-up to offer four intense tours of the underbelly of the North Fork in January, 2007.
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Monthly Giving Initiated at WSERC
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You can contribute to the environment every month!
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Monthly Donor Sign Up Form
WSERC is now ready for you to sign up for monthly giving! It's an EASY way to support your favorite conservation group! 
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Oil & Gas Drilling: Your Rights - Industry Rights
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Free Public Forum
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July 19th 9:30 AM to 4:00 PM Ouray County 4H Center
Highway 550 Ridgway (1/4 mile south of traffic light)
Sale of BLM Mineral Rights Leases May Impact our Region. Learn what every citizen needs to know:
• What is a split estate? • What are surface owner’s rights? • What are
mineral owner’s rights? • How is the safety of the public assured? • What
air, noise, water regulations apply to drilling? • What are the impacts of
drilling on agriculture, wildlife, Hunting, Fishing, Roads, tourism,
scenic views?
Presentations will be made by:
Bureau of Land Management Colorado Gas and Oil Conservation Commission Oil
and Gas Accountability Project Affected Land Owners Ouray and Montrose
County Commissioners State and federal Officials
Sponsored by: Ridgway-Ouray Community Council Uncompahgre valley Association
Ouray Board of County Commissioners
Cash Lunch Available For more information call: Ken Lipton 626-395
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Volunteer to help the North Fork Environment
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Volunteer Information Form
Help us with community activities like our West Nile Virus Prevention Campaign or our Earth Day poster contest for kids, or be an advocate for responsible energy development in the North Fork Valley. If you'd like to be involved, we've got something for you to do! To become a WSERC volunteer, please call us or fill out the volunteer information form above.
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WSERC Seeks Home
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The building WSERC has been renting for six years has been sold and WSERC is looking for a new home. After looking at many buildings suggested by members, WSERC has decided to buy one building. Our finance committee concluded that buying is more cost-effective in the long run and will ultimately free money for program work. Stay tuned for updates.
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More reading on gas drilling chemicals
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Click the "Continue" button to access three articles dealing with the chemicals being used for gas drilling and frac'ing: health effects, incidents, and a press release.
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WSERC's Silent Auction a Success on July 4th
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Thanks to everyone who bid on WSERC's Silent Auction on July 4th at Cherry Days. If you were a winning bidder and haven't picked up your items, please contact the WSERC Office at 527-5307 for payment and pickup.
Thanks to the Paonia Chamber of Commerce for organizaing Cherry Days, to all the sponsors of Cherry Days and the generous donors to WSERC's silent auction. We will be posting a list of donors soon.
If you're interested in seeing a catalog of the auction items, browse here
To see photos of folks at the auction, click the Continue Story button below.
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Earth Day Dobie Clean-Up
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For the 8th year, staff from the Bureau of Land Management Uncompahgre Field Office partnered with WSERC and the Cocker Kids’ Foundation to mark Earth Day on Saturday, April 21. The group of nearly 30 volunteers, many of them children from Joe and Pam Cocker's nonprofit organization founded to support local children, spent the morning picking up everything from beer bottles to a 1,600-gallon plastic tank from the popular adobe badlands between Paonia and Crawford.
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WSERC committee gathers data at drill site
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July 9th, 15 members of WSERC's Coalbed Methane Committee met with Forest Service staff to survey the sites where Gunnison Energy Corporation will be drilling natural gas wells, most likely next year.
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Winds of Change
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Although the signs of global warming are becoming ever more prominent, casual observers of the media in the United States or Europe might easily conclude that U.S. citizens are in denial about climate change, refusing to take responsibility for controlling their emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2 ) and the other greenhouse gases (GHGs) that cause global warming. read PDF version of original article
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30 Years of WSERC
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edited from article by Kathy Browning, DCI
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WSERC held it’s annual meeting on Sunday, Jan. 27th at Memorial Hall in Hotchkiss. Many of those who attended said it was the best one yet. Entertainment included the Freedom Chorus, Ellen Ensley, Ellen Stapenhorst and others. The event was in celebration of the culmination of WSERC’s 30 years. WSERC is tied with another environmental group, High Country Citizens’ Alliance, as the oldest environmental organizations in the state.
WSERC had an accomplishment-filled 2007. Membership increased by 15 percent to 560. The organization is has begun organizing more activities to involve youth. WSERC members led students on an Earth Day Dobies Clean-Up with the Cocker Kids Foundation. For the first year there was a Kids’ MountainFilm matinee. WSERC coordinated four underground coal mine tours and sponsored the chili cook-off for the Mountain Harvest Festival.
“One of the major things we focussed on in the last year was analyzing the NEPA documents for the Bull Mountain Pipeline,” Rob Peters said. “We came to the conclusion we would like to see it choose a different route. The route goes through three roadless areas. One of our big issues is to protect core areas for wildlife.”
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Earth Day Poster Contest Winners Announced
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To celebrate Earth Day 2007, WSERC sponsored a poster contest for all Delta County sixth grade classes. The theme was “Careful with the Earth! It’s Not Nice to Fool with Mother Nature!” The 120 entries were judged by a jury from the Creamery Arts Center in Hotchkiss and posted in each community’s downtown business windows. A special thank you to teachers Ted Schanen, Cedaredge; Helen Groome, Crawford; Anita Evans, Hotchkiss; and Melissa Sheehan, Paonia for their participation.
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Adventures in Recycling
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What will you do?
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Somewhere around your house may lurk an ever
increasing mass, gathering dust as it ages, pushing you into smaller living space and causing you to mutter to yourself again "What am I going to do with all the stuff I kept from throwing away?"
If you live in or near the North Fork Valley or Surface Creek watershed, your local options are limited. With the removal of the recycling bins in Hotchkiss near the City Market, local residents are left with either trying to remember when the travelling county recycling trailer will be in their area or making the trek to Delta, Montrose or Grand Junction to recycle.
Where can you go? Keep reading ...
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Victory!!!! BLM pulls Paonia State Rec Area gas lease sale
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Following an outcry from West Slope citizens and a protest letter hand-delivered to the Bureau of Land Management State Director, the BLM withdrew a 91-acre mineral lease parcel located within the boundaries of the Paonia State Recreation Area from tomorrow’s quarterly mineral lease sale. The decision means that, for now, drill rigs will stay out of the state recreation area, which is situated at the heart of the West Elk National Scenic Byway and in the headwaters of the North Fork of the Gunnison River.
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