On Saturday, May 11th, 10 volunteers with Headwaters, Inc. canoed and kayaked 18 miles from Whitesburg to Blackey. Below, we have reprinted The Mountain Eagle’s press coverage of the event. The link to the article can be found here. Can Letcher Co. be toured by river? By SALLY BARTO There’s more than one way...
The Upper Cumberland River Watershed Watch has announced a date for this year’s conference. It will be held at Somerset Community College on Saturday, May 18th. For more information, below is an agenda. Hope to see you there!
Headwaters, Inc. has been very busy lately with service projects that highlight environmental stewardship and community service! Below are some pictures from two of our most recent projects. Clean-up of the Kentucky River’s North Fork with Mountain Alliance volunteers Trail Maintenance on the Pine Mountain Trail with the Letcher County Extension Office, Letcher County...
On March 30th, 2013, 30 student volunteers from Letcher County Central High School participated in reforesting a pre-regulatory strip job at Fishtrap Lake, Pike County. Among the other participants were students from Oberlin College, AmeriCorps VISTA members, and a full AmeriCorps NCCC team (Delta 3, Class 19). Great job, guys! This event received funding assistance...
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Every year, Headwaters partners with the Kentucky River Watershed Watch (KRWW) to gather data on herbicides, pathogens, metals and nutrients within the Letcher County watershed of the Kentucky River. Below we have provided a map that plots all of the points in Letcher County that were tested in the 2012 KRWW water testing event. Because pathogens...
In June of 1969, the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio, caught fire. Filled for decades with raw sewage and various pollutants, Time Magazine once described the Cuyahoga as the river that “oozes rather than flows,” and in which a person “does not drown but decays.” Congress and the Nixon administration acted quickly, and passed...
Since the release of our latest county-wide stream survey, Headwaters has received a substantial amount of attention in the local media. Here is a quick round-up of local press features that will serve to interpet and summarize some of the more complex sections of the report. A link to the article in The Mountain...
