What We Do

Our Work:

Park Watershed supports integrative planning strategies through which municipal, state and regional agencies, projects and policy can shape a greener, more prosperous future.
Education & Outreach: Presentations about how your neighborhood, business or nonprofit organization is related to local ecosystem health. Providing informational materials to K-12 Schools along the watershed.
We partner with and consult other local non-profits and agencies on projects concerning the ecological revitalization of the watershed. These partnerships include:
- The Urban Bird Treaty, a program of the US Fish & Wildlife Service, in collaboration with CT and Hartford Audubon Societies and The City of Hartford.
- The North Branch Park River Watershed Management Plan
- New England Landscape Futures
- Watershed retention basin construction in the West End of Hartford
Coordinate watershed clean-up projects
Community Engagement: Volunteer Opportunities + Town Zoning Meetings that impact the watershed
Acts as liaison for advancing community connection to nature
Providing information and testimony to help affect federal, state, and local environmental policy.
Support scientific research
Advocates for policy that improves and protects the Park River Watershed, and all watersheds in the U.S., as community assets.