Saturday, December 18, 2010

WWG Video on Farm.TV

Hi Everyone,

For those of you who have not had an oppourtunity to view this yet, here is the link to the video that Anne did with Farm.TV about our watershed group.

WWG Video on Farm.TV

Anne did a GREAT job of talking about the group, and the importance of watershed groups in general. Thanks again Anne and Farm.TV for doing the video !

Jen

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

2010 Field Day




Thanks so much to everyone who helped make our field day such a success !


It was great to see you all there. It may have been one of the few days of summer we had this year ... it was a bit warm ... but I will take the heat over the blizzards and cold weather that we seem to have had for our other gatherings !
I wanted to say a special thank you to Michael and Amanda from Cows & Fish for putting on the range/riparian health part of the day and to Sasha for so graciously hosting us. It was a beautiful location and a perfect spot for a BBQ.
I believe that the health assessments have now been done on the various properties along the Waterton River. The next step will involve the Cows and Fish staff meeting with those who participated regarding their field work/assessments.
I also wanted to mention that our interm report is due to ASN on Sept. 30th. I am working on it now, it is not a big report and it should be to them in lot's of time.
Jen

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Field Day

Hi Everyone

It looks like we have everything organized for the field day .... to view more details about time, location etc. please go to the link on the right .. under PAGES where is says "2010 Field Day & BBQ"

It is going to be a GREAT day ! Hope to see some of you there !

Jen

Thursday, June 17, 2010

WWG Field Day 2010

Hi Everyone !

We have scheduled the Field Day for Wednesday, August 25th, 2010. Cows & Fish staff will be talking to us about range/riparian health and we will be given the oppourtunity to learn how to do our own health assessments of these types of areas. Tentative plans are to start the workshop in the morning and host a BBQ in conjunction with it. If you have any ideas you would like to share regarding our field day, please feel free to let me know. We will also be looking for volunteers to help with getting things organized for it, and your help would be appreciated. Not only will this be a day for us to learn about range/riparian health .. it is going to be a fun day for us to get together and visit with our neighbors !

The riparian health assessments are scheduled to take place the last week in August. If you are interested in participating please let me know so we can begin making decisions about where the assessments will take place.

I will try and get some more info. posted for all of you about how the assessments will work etc.

I also have copies of the grant agreement .. if anyone is interested in having one please let me know and I can get one sent out to you.

Jen

Friday, May 7, 2010

WWG Meeting

Hi Everyone

There will be a meeting to organize the Riparian Health Assessment Project and field day for this summer Thursday, May 27th at 7pm at the Weston Centre located at the Waterton Springs Campground.

Hope to see you there !

Jen

Saturday, April 3, 2010

2010 ASN Watershed Stewardship Grant

I am very happy to let you all know that we have been approved for $4000 in funding by the ASN Watershed Grant program for our Waterton Watershed Health Assessment Project for 2010.

I will be sending an email out in the next month or so, outlining the proposed outline for the project. I welcome any ideas or suggestions you might have regarding it. Also if you know of any other members of the watershed area who might be interested in participating in the project please let me know.

If you have any questions about the Project please feel free to give me a call, or email me. As mentioned above .. I hope to be in touch with you all in the next moth regarding the project and your participation in it.

Jen

Monday, February 22, 2010

Hi Everyone !

I have been thinking of a way that I can easily keep in touch with everyone and have a place where we can share upcoming events etc. It would be nice to have our own website one day, but until that day comes I thought this blog might serve us well for now.

I am new to "blogging" .. so you will have to bear with me while I get things here figured out ! Please feel free to let me know of any links, events or articles of interest that you want to share with the group and I will be sure to get them posted.

Also .. you can sign up with your email address and recieve updates directly to your inbox .. and you can post a comment to any one of the posts here ... this is how you do it:

Below this post you will see beside the time of the post and area that says "0 comments" .... if you click on that it bring up a comment box for you to post in ... it may ask you for a "sign in" ... and unless you have one of the account types listed .. the best way to sign in is to go to "name/url" and just fill in the name you want to use (no need to put in an URL address). It should be quite simple once you get onto it .. also .. I have set it so that you will have to copy a text sequence in order to post .. that is just to keep "comment spam" off the blog. Hope this is not too confusing for you all .. alternatively you can always email me .. and I can comment for you.

If you want to sign up to recieve updates with your email address ... again .. click on "comments" .. and there is a link near the bottom of the comment box that will allow you to " Sign up for updates using your email" . You do not have to comment at that time to be able to use the sign up link. Alternatively ... I can add your email address so that you will recieve updates to this blog directly to your inbox .. just send me an email.

Sounds confusing doesn't it ??? LOL ! I think though even if you are not commenting it will be a good place to share info. It does allow us to have up to 10 "pages" here .. just like a website .. so as time goes on we can keep adding to the blog.

Talk to you soon ..

Jen

Monday, February 15, 2010

Riparian Health Assessment

I just thought I would let you all know that the grant for the 2010 Riparian Health Assessment Project was completed and sent in at the end of Feb. We should know by March if we are approved or not. Either way I am hoping we will still be able to at least have some kind of Field Day this year. I will keep everyone posted on the grant process.

Also .. I have spoke with the MD of Pincher Creek and they are going to do the accounting for us. It is a really simple process and we can get financial statements from them as needed/requested.

Guess that's it ..

Jen