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Youth River Voices

Water, river, and climate change student leaders give voice to the most important issues of today

Growing Up in Colorado

12/11/2018

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2018 Healthy Rivers Youth Water Summit, Speaker Erin Flaherty. Photo by Erin Danneker. EyeDrop Design.
By Erin Flaherty, Coal Ridge High School student
Published in Glenwood Springs Post Independent 12/15/2018
Growing up in Colorado was a dream for me as a little kid. Bountiful forests and streams to play in, mud cakes to make, stick weapons used to wage war against my older siblings. The outdoors were (and still are) a second home to me. My relationship with nature has matured from messing around with bugs to seeking a career protecting the outdoors. I joined a water quality testing group, Colorado River Watch, and participate in community activities outside. While it may be more complicated now, gathering data in the field still means I can splash in streams! 

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The Other Side of Science: My Experience With the Youth Water Leadership Program

12/11/2018

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2018 Healthy Rivers Youth Water Summit, Speakers Aidan Boyd and Erin Flaherty. Photo by Erin Danneker, EyeDrop Design
By: Aidan Boyd, Coal Ridge High School Student

Published 12/14/18 as Letter to Editor in Aspen Daily News
Since I was a little kid, I’ve known I wanted to study the sciences. I always pictured myself in a lab coat, silently working away until I found a cure for cancer. I never understood the often gritty, behind-the-scenes jobs required for science to be useful. My freshman year I started on a simple citizen science project with my friends, collecting basic water quality data from Elk Creek for Colorado River Watch. I never thought about how this data could be used to educate or change the world. That is, until I was put into touch with Wild Rose Education’s Sarah Johnson and learned about the Youth Water Leadership Program.

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A Reason To Think Deeper

12/5/2018

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2018 Healthy Rivers Youth Water Summit, keynote speaker Sara Porterfield, Tributaries Consulting LLC. Photo by Eyedrop Design
2018 Healthy Rivers Youth Water Summit. Photo by Andrea Holland Sears
By Will Hassel, Glenwood Springs Middle School Student

From the beginning of middle school, I have been involved in various teams and clubs that all have some connection to water. In 6th grade, half of the year was devoted to a unit on rivers. Nate Higginson, from the Middle Colorado Watershed Council took this opportunity to form a River Watch Club for Glenwood Springs Middle School. A couple of friends and I went out once a week to collect and analyze the water from streams near the school. The following year, I got to do a presentation at the first Youth Water Summit about Two Rivers Park and water quality there. I was interested in the program, so Rob Buirgy, the teacher who helped me with the presentation, gave me the information about the leader team.

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