Restoring and maintaining healthy riparian areas along the White River in northwest Colorado and northeast Utah
Working Together
The White River Partnership (WRP) is committed to restoring and maintaining healthy riparian areas along the White River in northwest Colorado and northeast Utah through collaboration among public, private, and non-profit entities. The WRP Vision is a dynamic riverine ecosystem where the threats from Russian olive, tamarisk, and related invasive plant species have been mitigated and native, resilient vegetation communities reflect a healthy river system beneficial to fish and wildlife habitat that supports the ecological, social, and economic sustainability of the multiple land uses found along the White River corridor.
In spring 2021 partners signed the WRP Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), a non-binding agreement to encourage collaborative riparian restoration along the White River as well as to identify the ecological, social, cultural, economic, and management goals of the WRP.
The WRP is an inclusive partnership and welcomes the participation of interested individuals and entities whether or not they sign the MOU.
The WRP supports a collaborative, landscape-scale approach to restoration in order to work across state and jurisdictional boundaries by meeting the needs and preferences of the diverse landowners, land managers, communities, and stakeholders of the White River basin in Colorado and Utah. The WRP's Riparian Restoration Plan provides a guiding framework for riparian restoration along the White River by identifying common goals among partners, ecological stressors on the system and the assumptions made to address them, criteria for prioritizing restoration sites and restoration methods, as well as the relevant background information about the White River.
The WRP maintains an interactive map to track treatment areas, store monitoring data, and other geospatial information relevant to riparian restoration.
