The Springs Stewardship Institute (SSI) and the Mountain Studies Institute (MSI) have teamed up to host a multi-day workshop to advance springs stewardship in the upper Colorado Plateau. 

This workshop is designed to further participants’ understanding of spring ecosystems and to provide a monitoring methodology that can be used to improve spring stewardship by land management agencies, academic researchers, watershed stakeholder groups, educators, or anyone with an interest in spring ecosystems. Spring stewardship is inter-disciplinary, so workshop topics will include elements of ecology, hydrology, water quality, entomology, botany, ornithology, climate science, geology, and information management. The workshop will consist of classroom presentations and discussions, as well as hands-on field inventory and assessment at nearby springs.