By Shannon Lukens.
A presentation will be given on the Butcherknife Creek Restoration Project at Tuesday afternoon’s meeting of the Steamboat Springs School District Board of Education. The project is scheduled to happen this summer and fall. Butcherknife presentation
The primary group running and organizing the project is the Yampa Valley Stream Improvement Charitable Trust. They are working with Bennett Colvin, who is the Environmental Science teacher at Steamboat Springs High School. He is also coordinating the project with Jeff Ruff.
“Currently our students have been acting as fish and marine biologists and looking how to test water quality and look at the macro invertebrates and the fish and all of the riparian habitat out of our river. And we’re going to get to see how doing a river restoration project with will affect the biodiversity so it should be really really cool and we’re really excited.”
The Butcherknife Creek Project is happening right behind Steamboat Springs Middle School and Strawberry Park Elementary. A company called Fly Water out of Fort Collins will come in to do the river restoration work. Students from all of the schools will be helping with tree planting, signage, monitoring the creek, and outreach. Colvin hopes it will create a prime learning space at the schools for years to come.
Other groups involved with supporting Yampa Valley Stream Improvement Charitable Trust are Trout Unlimited and the Steamboat Springs School District.
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The Steamboat Springs School District Board of Education meets at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 9, at Steamboat Springs Middle School.