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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:

Click the cover to read the Fall 2024 edition of The River Runs.

Fall 2024

2023 Newsletters

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Summer 2023
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Winter 2023

2022 Newsletters

Fall 2022
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2021 Newsletters

Fall 2021
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2020 Newsletters

Fall 2020
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2019 Newsletters

Fall 2019
Summer 2019
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Winter 2019

Winter 2019 addendum: Purple Loosestrife Infestation Maps

2018 Newsletters

Fall 2018
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Spring 2018

Winter 2018

2017 Newsletters

Fall 2017
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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