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JORDAN RIVER COMMISSION NEWS & EVENTS                                      Fall 2014

   


A project of Jordan River Commission, the Center for documentary Expression and Art and Salt Lake County's Watershed Restoration and Planning Program.

 


 My Jordan River is designed to be viewed on a smartphone or tablet right from the parkway, and enhances your visit with educational information about trailheads, restoration projects, water quality, history, and ecology.  Poetry and photo galleries help highlight the role the Jordan River plays in our communities.  

 

Much of the content for the site was developed by students at West High, Jordan High and the Salt Lake Center for Science Education as part of the Center for Documentary Expression and Art's Reawakened Beauty curriculum program.

 

All interested members of the public are invited to contribute their own content (stories, photos, videos, short articles, poetry, etc.) for publication and a chance to win prizes including a Flash 18 Backpack donated by REI. 

 

The Jordan River Commission is pleased to announce the next educational opportunity in the Best Practices for Riverfront Communities Training Series.  

 

This full-day workshop will be taught by national experts, David Hirschman and Bill Stack from the Center for Watershed Protection.  The workshop is geared towards a broad audience of planners, engineers, landscape architects, developers, municipal public works departments, and ecologists.  

 

Come ready to do hands on exercises, and learn about:

  • Tools for watershed restoration - from the rooftop to the river
  • The art and science of storm water retrofitting, with hands-on training
  • Stream restoration's role in watershed restoration
  • Large basin TMDLs: Lessons from the Chesapeake Bay and elsewhere
  • How to score, rank and prioritize in context of a watershed plan 

Registration opens October 1st, and space is limited.  Workshop participants are eligible for 7.5 continuing education credit hours.

 

Learn more here...


West Valley City Stormwater Pond



 

The Jordan River Commission is pleased to share that we and West Valley City were awarded a new $50,000 grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.


 

The Five-Star Restoration Grant will help to clean-up and restore a stormwater detention pond in West Valley City. The project will help to clean the water before it enters the Jordan River and beautify the area for the community.   The site will also become an outdoor classroom for University of Utah Civil and Environmental Engineering students studying water quality management, and secondary students from Hunter High School as they participate in an 8-week curriculum about the Jordan River led by the Center for Documentary Expression and Art.


 

Learn more here...

Lower Jordan River Restoration and Education Grant



The Jordan River Commission is thrilled to be partnering with the Center for Documentary Expression and Art and Intermountain Aquatics on a project funded by Willard Bay Mitigation Funds through the Division of Water Quality. 

The grant provides $138,000 for a series of large clean-up and restoration projects along the Lower Jordan River (2100 south to the Great Salt Lake), as well as extending funding for CDEA's Jordan River-focused school residency program, Reawakened Beauty. 

Together we'll be engaging 60 high school students and hundreds of community volunteers as we pull invasive weeds, plant hundreds of new native trees and shrubs, and remove trash from the river corridor.
2015 Puncturevine Management Grant

  

The Utah Department of Agriculture and Food's Invasive Species Management program has granted the JRC $12,440 for goathead weed removal along the trail. 

 

These nasty plants are notorious for puncturing bicycle tires and are a public nuisance along the trail system. Each plan can produce up to 2,000 seeds, and the seeds can remain viable in the soil for seven years.  It's easy to understand how they can quickly take over an area if they are not controlled. This grant will extend an existing two-year project focused on controlling the weed through biological control and volunteer efforts. 

 

Learn more here...

 
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Native Species Spotlight 
by Dan Potts

Utah Common Hummingbirds



Be a Weed Warrior:  
Russian Olive 
 
 
 
Photo Spotlight:
 
   
Submitted by 
Center for Documentary Expression and Art  
 
What to do on the Jordan River Parkway this Fall: 
  

 

How do you enjoy the Jordan River in the Fall? 

 

Jordan River Commission
 
195 North 1950 West
P.O. Box 91095
Salt Lake City, UT  84109-1095
801-536-4158
 
About the Jordan River Commission

 

The Jordan River Commission was created by an interlocal cooperation agreement in August 2010. The Commission was created to implement the concepts and projects outlined in the Blueprint Jordan River, to serve as a technical resource to local communities, and to provide a forum for regional coordination of planning, restoration, and responsible development along the river corridor.