Video & Audio
About the Cache la Poudre River National Heritage Area
Additional (Audio Only) Archives
Water Legacy
In Their Own Words
Lifting Voices from the Shadows
Lifting Voices from the Shadows – Florita Soldier Wolf
Sponsored Films
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Resource Centers & Archives
The Water Center at Colorado State University
The Water Center at Colorado State University (CSU) in Fort Collins is a focal point to coordinate, leverage and enhance water-related research, teaching, and outreach at Colorado State University. Colorado State University provides one of the most water ‘rich’ research and educational settings available anywhere in the world.
Colorado State University Water Resource Archive
The Colorado State University Water Resources Archive is a joint effort of the University Libraries and the Colorado Water Institute. Formally begun in 2001, the Archive consists of collections from individuals and organizations that have been instrumental in the development of water resources in Colorado and the West.
Northern Water
In May 1937, the Colorado Legislature passed the Water Conservancy Act, laying the groundwork to create the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District the same year. Northern Water, as it is known today, share’s it’s ground breaking history and water leadership in a historical timeline.
Books
People of the Poudre: An Ethnohistory of the Cache la Poudre River National Heritage Area, AD 1500-1880.
Burris, Lucy. 2006. [Published through a cooperative agreement between the National Park Service, Friends of the Poudre, and the Cache la Poudre River National Heritage Area]
Written in water: the life of Benjamin Harrison Eaton.
Norris, Jane E. and Lee G. 1990. Ohio University Press, Athens. [Describes the era of initial irrigation infrastructure development in the Poudre River Valley from the perspective of a land/water developer.]
Turning on Water with a Shovel: The Career of Elwood Mead.
Kluger, James R. 1992. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque. [Describes the era of initial implementation of the Colorado Doctrine from the perspective of a government employee charged with making the system work.]
Silver Fox of the Rockies: Delphus E. Carpenter and Western Water Compacts.
Tyler, Daniel. 2003. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman. [Describes the era of dividing the waters of the Western rivers among the States and the legal mechanisms and processes used to achieve agreement via Compacts.]
Cowboy in the Boardroom: W.D. Farr’s Bold Ideas and Leadership in the American West.
Tyler, Daniel. 2011. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman. [Describes the initiation of the CBT Project’s administration of a ‘supplemental’ BOR project in Northern Colorado.]
Measuring Expertise: Ralph Parshall and Watershed Management, 1920-1940, in The Greater Plains: Rethinking a Region’s Environmental Histories
Weeks, Michael. 2021, Kathleen Brosnan and Brian Frehner, eds. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.)
