RBC | Rivers wind their way across our landscape, a delivery system for inland water, irrigation water for the food our farmers grow, drinking water for humans and animals, and habitat for wildlife.
“Ninety percent of the riparian areas have been lost in the west in the last 300 years,” commented Drew Varner of RiversEdge West during last week’s river management workshop in Meeker. “Only one percent of western lands are considered riparian,” he continued.