Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering
The Coalition for the Poudre River Watershed (CPRW) is a 501c3 nonprofit based in Fort Collins. CPRW formed after the 2012 High Park and Hewlett Gulch wildfires burned over 90,000 acres in the watershed. Their mission is to improve and maintain the ecological health of the Poudre River Watershed through community collaboration. CPRW’s executive director, Hally Strevey, will present on the history of CPRW and their programs with a focus on the organization’s collaborative, science based planning and implementation to achieve landscape scale restoration across the watershed. Several case studies on post-fire restoration and wildfire mitigation projects will be discussed along with the challenges that CPRW and partners are facing in the years to come.
Hally is a Colorado native, with a great love of the West. Her family has a cabin on the Poudre River, and she spent much of her childhood fishing, hiking, and cross country skiing in the watershed. These experiences helped to fuel her passion for a career path in restoration ecology and watershed management.
Hally has a diverse background in both wildlife and ecology. She has a Bachelor’s of Science in wildlife biology from Colorado State University and a Master’s of Science in restoration ecology from Montana State University. She has also worked for the Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, the Restoration Ecology lab at Colorado State University, and an ecological consulting firm.
When she’s not working, Hally enjoys spending time in wild and beautiful places with her husband and dogs, practicing and teaching yoga, identifying plants, and hanging out in downtown Fort Collins.