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Western Hardrock Watershed Team

WHWT is a coalition of community/watershed improvement groups, confronting the challenges that remain from historic mining in the West. We address environmental degradation and community impoverishment, providing rural mining communities with the skills and capacity they need to make their neighborhoods / watersheds better places to live and work.

By implementing projects to clean up contaminated water, reforesting mine lands, and revitalizing former mining towns, watershed organizations are engaging and restoring their communities. The WHWT places OSM/VISTA members with these organizations and in doing so provides them with a vital resource – human capital. These OSM/VISTA members help the organization grow while working on community revitalization and environmental stewardship projects. After three years of having OSM/VISTAs members at their site, organizations have stronger volunteer bases, more sustainable funding, improved outreach and education programming, and more capacity to address their community’s needs.

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