The Cowpasture River Preservation Association publishes a newsletter four times each year (once per season) featuring upcoming events, updates from meetings and workshops, reports on our stream monitoring program and other topics of interest to our membership and supporters of the Cowpasture River watershed. Follow the links below to read our most recent issues:
2023 Newsletters
Fall 2023
Summer 2023
Spring 2023
Winter 2023
2022 Newsletters
Fall 2022
Summer 2022
Spring 2022
Winter 2022
2021 Newsletters
Fall 2021
Summer 2021
Spring 2021
Winter 2021
2020 Newsletters
Fall 2020
Summer 2020
Spring 2020
Winter 2020
2019 Newsletters
Fall 2019
Summer 2019
Spring 2019
Winter 2019
Winter 2019 addendum: Purple Loosestrife Infestation Maps
2018 Newsletters
Fall 2018
Summer 2018
Spring 2018
Winter 2018
2017 Newsletters
Fall 2017
Summer 2017
Spring 2017
Winter 2017
2016 Newsletters
Fall 2016
Summer 2016
Spring 2016
Winter 2016
Click here for archived issues.
We also collaborate with federal, state, and other conservation partners to produce studies and reports on the Cowpasture River and related water resource issues. A selection of those publications can be found below:
Summer 2022 – CRPA 50th Anniversary Slide Show
The Recorder’s Special Edition, Summer 2022 – Discover! Summer in the Allegheny Highlands
Washington Post, July 5, 2020 – Energy companies Abandon Long-Delayed Atlantic Coast Pipeline
Roanoke Valley Alleghany Regional Commission, June 9, 2020 – Get To Know The Upper James River Watershed: Cowpasture River Edition
Radford University Department of Geospatial Science, 2019 – Predicting The Potential Future Spread of Lythrum salicaria Using GIS and Remote Sensing in the Allegheny Highlands, Virginia
Pipeline Compliance Surveillance Initiative (CSI), March 9, 2018 – The Seven Steps of Incident Investigation In the Event the Pipeline Goes Forward
Downstream Strategies, February 21, 2018 – Threats to Water Quality from Mountain Valley Pipeline and Atlantic Coast Pipeline Water Crossings in Virginia
The Daily Progress, The News Virginian, January 30, 2018: Environmental Groups File Lawsuit Challenging FERC Approval of Pipeline
lHuffington Post, September 14, 2017: West Virginia Revokes Approval Of Mountain Valley Pipeline As Legal Terrain Shifts
The Roanoke Times, June 21, 2017: “Environmental groups: Justification for Dominion’s Atlantic Coast Pipeline has ‘eroded'”
Downstream Strategies, August 18, 2016: Guidance for Monitoring Effects of Gas Pipeline Development on Surface Water and Groundwater Supplies
Cowpasture River Fish Community Assessment 2014 Report
Cowpasture River Fish Community Assessment 2013 Report
Warm Springs Cowpasture River Conservation Area Plan March 2003
We also make sure that our monitors are utilizing state water quality methods. Some of these methods are outlined in the below publications:
VA DEQ Coliscan Training Manual
Virginia Save Our Streams Monitor’s Checklist