User's Manual For Conservators In Colorado

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Colorado is home to regionally and even internationally significant wetland ecosystems. Many of Colorado’s most unique wetlands, including extreme rich fens, have developed over the course of hundreds and even thousands of years, and are irreplaceable in our lifetimes.

Wetlands are a critical part of Colorado’s natural heritage, and perform the highest level of ecological functions like providing wildlife habitat and storing water throughout the growing season when they are in a least-altered state. Wetland conservation, including the protection of surrounding terrestrial habitats that support high-functioning wetlands, should be the first priority in natural resource planning, followed by habitat enhancement and restoration, and mitigation for wetland impacts as a last resort.

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Wetland landscapes cross land ownership and political boundaries, and conserving wetlands involves collaboration and effort across groups and county lines. Conservation planning helps us to identify areas of high conservation priority, groups who can help conserve these areas, and actions that we can take to ensure that future generations can enjoy Colorado’s wetlands.

The Colorado Natural Heritage Program (CNHP) tracks individual wetland species and entire wetland ecosystems of conservation interest, which are often included in Potential Conservation Areas (PCAs). To learn more about these PCAs, you can click on individual PCAs in the Colorado Wetland Inventory mapper, as well as the Watershed Planning Toolbox Mapper.

Additional PCA information can be found in County Surveys that CNHP has carried out across Colorado to document wetlands and terrestrial habitats of high conservation significance. The surveys provide detailed information on rare ecosystems and natural plant communities across the state, along with potential threats and management recommendations.

In addition to mapped priority wetlands, Colorado Parks & Wildlife (CPW) maintains a list of wetland priority species, which also includes a growing number of fact sheets and habitat scorecards to help users identify suitable habitat for these species. The Watershed Planning Toolbox Mapper includes wetland wildlife habitat rankings for amphibians, shorebirds, and other wetland-associated species, along with layers like the National Audubon Society's Important Bird Areas to help users find wetland complexes and other sites with high conservation value for birds across Colorado.

High elevation wetlands within Upper Hall Valley, Park County, CO. CNHP Staff.

Rare wetlands orchid, Epipactis gigantea. Jill Handwerk, CNHP.

Getting Involved in Wetland Conservation

Interested in helping with or learning more about wetland conservation? Please see our Funding and Technical Support page for resources and opportunities to conserve, restore, and learn more about wetlands in Colorado!

Colorado also has 6 Wetland Focus Area Committees (FACs), which include stakeholders ranging from private landowners to federal land management agencies and nongovernmental organizations. CPW hosts a map of the FAC regions, as well as contact information for each committee.

CNHP Field Ecologists assess the condition of a marsh in the Arkansas Valley. Joanna Lemly, CNHP.

Sampling vegetation in an inter-mountain basin playa, San Luis Valley. Conor Flynn, CNHP.

Incorporating Wetlands into Watershed Planning

Watershed Plans

Is there an existing watershed plan that includes your area of interest? Find out via the CNHP Watershed Planning Toolbox Mapper or Colorado Watershed Assembly’s Watershed Reports and Plans.

The EPA Handbook for Developing Watershed Plans to Restore and Protect our Waters is also a useful resource for groups looking to create and implement watershed plans for water quality or water resource protection.

Watershed Groups

The Colorado Watershed Assembly maintains an interactive mapping tool that allows users to see watershed groups and soil conservation districts in each of the major river basins across the state.

Kettle pond near Hayden, CO. Sarah Marshall, CNHP.

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Reports, Manuals and Guidebooks

The following Reclamation publications provide information that may be helpful for agencies and businesses in implementing water conservation practices:

Reports

Weather and Soil Moisture Based Landscape Irrigation Scheduling Devices, 4th edition, July 2012 (PDF, 2.1 MB) - This technical review report documents the overall status of emerging weather and soil moisture based landscape irrigation controller technology. The information is targeted for water agencies to assist in their efforts to promote this technology as a means of conserving water and reducing irrigation runoff-induced pollution.

Summary of Smart Controller Water Savings Studies, Technical Memorandum, April 2008 (PDF, 100 KB) - This document summarizes the findings of a literature review of publicly available reports and articles for water savings studies that evaluated weather- and soil moisture-based (“smart”) landscape irrigation control devices. It serves as a supplemental document to the above report.

Manual

Water Measurement Manual, 3rd edition, Revised 2001
A technical guide to effective water measurement practices for better water management - published in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture

HTML formats

Browse the manual on the web [1 KB]
Download a self-extracting ZIP file to install onto your PC or laptop [9 MB]

PDF Formats

Browse the manual on the web [4 MB]

Download a ZIP file of the manual [3.2 MB]

To order a printed copy, please see How to Obtain the Water Measurement Manual.

Guidebooks & Plans

Achieving Efficient Water Management - A Guidebook for Preparing Municipal Water Conservation Plans, July 1997
Developed to help urban water districts of all sizes and complexities prepare water conservation plans to achieve more efficient water use.

Browse the guidebook on the web (PDF format) [1.3 MB]
Download a ZIP file containing the PDF version of the guidebook [181 KB]

Achieving Efficient Water Management, A Guidebook for Preparing Agricultural Water Conservation Plans, 2nd edition, Revised 2000 Colorado

Developed to help agricultural water districts and irrigation organizations prepare water conservation and management plans to achieve more efficient water use.

Browse the guidebook on the web (PDF format) [2.28 MB]
Download a ZIP file containing the PDF version of the guidebook [2.1 MB]

Water Conservation Plans
These files contain pre-formatted documents (Plan Form and Plan Tables) to help prepare a Water Conservation Plan for various water uses. The documents are structured so that you 'fill-in' most of the required information right at your computer.

To download and install:

Click on the file format you want to download.
Select the directory where you want the files to reside (we recommend an empty directory) and select 'save'.
After downloading, double click on the files using Windows Explorer.