Torrey House Press | FOUNTAIN CREEK by Jim O'Donnell From its headwaters high up Colorado’s legendary Pike’s Peak to suburban concrete-lined canals, Fountain Creek has endured nearly everything humans could do to a single watershed. It has been dammed, ...

FOUNTAIN CREEK by Jim O'Donnell www.torreyhouse.org/fountain-creek || #COwx #Colorado #Rivers #NatureWriting #COWater #FountainBook

Creek Week cleanups give residents role in Fountain Creek water quality More than 20 volunteers were out Tuesday morning taking part in Creek Week, the annual restoration event held by the Fountain Creek Watershed District. Volunteers worked around the edges of Pikeview R...

Excellent Creek Week this year! We got THOUSANDS of pounds of trash out of Fountain Creek. Thank you everyone who participated!

Creek Week cleanups give residents role in Fountain Creek water quality - gazette.com/2025/09/30/c... || #FountainBook #COwater #COwx #Colorado #Pueblo #ColoradoSprings

City in early stages of $1B plan to redevelop swath of Fountain Creek with waterfront parks Colorado Springs is in the early stages of a more than $1 billion plan to redevelop a swath of Fountain Creek near downtown for environmental and recreational access. The city is accepting requests fo...

City in early stages of $1B plan to redevelop swath of Fountain Creek with waterfront parks - Colorado Springs Gazette gazette.com/2025/10/03/c... || #FountainBook #ColoradoSprings #Colorado #COwx #COwater #rivers

What we know about the Pueblo City Park and Arkansas River Corridor Master Plan so far The Pueblo City Park and Arkansas River Corridor Master Plan continues to take shape. Here's what some of the preferred concepts might look like.

I'm not a huge fan of some of this. I really dont like the idea of more cars and parking down along the river.

What the Arkansas River Corridor may look like after improvements www.chieftain.com/story/news/2... || #Colorado #COwater #COwx #FountainBook #Pueblo

Where ‘day-zero droughts’ could happen as soon as this decade | CNN Many parts of world face are predicted to endure periods of unprecedented extreme water scarcity, which could happen as soon as this decade in certain hotspots.

I worry about this for #Colorado 's Front Range cities including #ColoradoSprings.

Where ‘day-zero droughts’ could happen as soon as this decadez | CNN www.cnn.com/2025/09/23/c... || #COwx #FountainBook #COwater

Be sure to grab the latest issue of Colorado Life magazine where I have a photo essay about Fountain Creek! #FountainBook #Colorado #COwx #ColoradoSprings

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El Paso County pauses nature center project | gazette.com gazette.com/news/el-paso... || #FountainBook #Colorado #ColoradoSprings #Rivers #COwx #COwater

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#Colorado!

Creek Week is coming up!

This is a fabulous opportunity to keep Fountain Creek clean and get to know people in your community. Take a look and join us!

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Wildlife experts restock Arkansas Darters in Sand Creek Wildlife experts are working to restock Arkansas Darters in Sand Creek.

Good news for #Colorado #Rivers.

Wildlife experts restock Arkansas Darters in Sand Creek www.kktv.com/video/2025/0... || #COwater #FountainBook

Fountain Creek is 'the poster child of the Anthropocene': Author Jim O'Donnell on water, society and the nature of rivers O'Donnell had a lifelong dream of following the path of Zebulon Pike. But the siren song of the Fountain had other ideas.

If you can, please join me at the Mesa Verde Literary Festival in Mancos, #Colorado this coming weekend. You know what I'll be talking about! #NatureWriting #Rivers #FountainBook

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Fountain Creek is 'the poster child of the Anthropocene': Author Jim O'Donnell on water, society and the nature of rivers O'Donnell had a lifelong dream of following the path of Zebulon Pike. But the siren song of the Fountain had other ideas.

Fresh today!

Fountain Creek is 'the poster child of the Anthropocene': Author Jim O'Donnell on water, society and the nature of rivers www.cpr.org/2025/07/02/a... || #FountainBook #Colorado #Rivers #Naturewriting #COwx #COwater

I will be on #Colorado Public Radio @coloradopublic.bsky.social this coming Wednesday, July 2 at 9am and again at 7pm, to talk about my book "Fountain Creek", the creek itself, our relationship to rivers and where we go from here! #Rivers #COwx #COwater #NatureWriting #FountainBook

Western Colorado mountain summer writing conference - Mesa Verde Writers Conference Mesa Verde Writers Conference is a generative writers conference in Mancos Colorado 7 miles from Mesa Verde National Park

Catch me and other Torrey House Press authors at the Mesa Verde Literary Festival in Mancos, Colorado July 12 and 13!

www.mesaverdewritersconference.org#/ || #Colorado #Rivers #FountainBook

Upcoming "Fountain Creek" book events...

July 12, 10am, Mancos, #Colorado, Mesa Verde Lit Fest
July 12, 12pm, Mancos
July 15, 6pm, Pueblo, CO, Shamrock Brewing
July 17, 6pm, Colorado Springs, CO, Mash Mechanix Brewing
July 19, 1pm, Manitou Springs Library

#FountainBook #NatureWriting #COwx

Torrey House Press | FOUNTAIN CREEK by Jim O'Donnell From its headwaters high up Colorado’s legendary Pike’s Peak to suburban concrete-lined canals, Fountain Creek has endured nearly everything humans could do to a single watershed. It has been dammed, ...

FOUNTAIN CREEK by Jim O'Donnell www.torreyhouse.org/fountain-creek

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Authors Jim O'Donnell and Craig Childs

Panel discussion. Four people sitting on chairs laughing

Jim O'Donnell's book Fountain Creek in the window of Townie Books in crested Butte, Colorado

Five foot high beaver dam, pond and partyly cloudy sky.

Enlightening, engaging, meet-my-peeps type of weekend in Crested Butte, #colorado at the Mountain Words Lit Fest. Including beaver dams, @bengoldfarb.bsky.social Craig Childs (buy his new book "The Wild Dark") & much other awesomeness. #naturewriting #fountainbook

Author Jim O'Donnell pointing at his book in a book store window.

Fountain Creek book in window

Beaver dam

"Fountain Creek" is now available at Townie Books & Rumors Coffee + Tea House in Crested Butte, #Colorado!!

#fountainbook #cowx #cowater #naturewriting #rivers

Fabulous experiences at the Mountain Words Literary Festival in crested Butte this weekend! #fountainbook #colorado

A huge THANK YOU to those who made the Great American Cleanup a major success for Fountain Creek!

📷 500+ volunteers removed 12,000+ pounds of trash.

Come join us for Creek Week: Sept 27 – Oct 5, 2025!

#Colorado #FountainBook #COwx #Rivers

Come find me at the Mountain Words Literary Festival in Crested Butte May 23-25. Always ready to talk water, rivers, wildlife, public lands, archaeology and...well...pretty much anything. #MtnWords2025

#FountainBook #Colorado #Rivers #NatureWriting

May 22, 2025, 5pm. #Pueblo #Colorado at the El Pueblo Historical Museum.

Join me to discuss the past and future of Colorado's Fountain Creek. Copies of my book "Fountain Creek: Big Lessons from a Little River" will be for sale. $20 cash or Venmo. #COwx #COwater #FountainBook #naturewriting

Manitou Springs gets $250,000 grant to build next phase of Creek Walk trail MANITOU SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Officials announced Wednesday that they have received funding from a state grant to finance a continued extension of the

Very good news.

Manitou Springs gets $250,000 grant to build next phase of Creek Walk trail | krdo.com/news/top-sto... || #FountainCreek #FountainBook #Colorado #COwx

135: The Future of Fountain Creek - Panel and Community Discussion - Studio 809 Podcasts A panel discussion with Fountain Creek Watershed District Executive Director Alli Schuch and Jim O’Donnell, author of Fountain Creek: Big Lessons from a Little River, followed by a dynamic community c...

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Lost and Found | History ColoradoSubscribe To RSS FeedaccessiblearrowcalendardiningdonatefacebookgroupsinstagramlinkedinmapmediummoneyparkingphonepinterestrentalsSearchshoppingsoundcloudteapottophattr... Lost and Found - How my pandemic pastime led me to rediscover some of Colorado’s earliest records.

Lost and Found | #History #Colorado || www.historycolorado.org/story/2025/0... || #FountainBook #COwx

Mountain Words Festival | Crested Butte, Colorado Mountain Words is an annual literary festival celebrating writers and readers of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction in Crested Butte Colorado.

Come see me at the Mountain Words Lit Festival!

I'll be talking Fountain Creek of course!

Mountain Words Festival | Crested Butte, Colorado mtnwords.org || #MtnWords2025 #FountainBook #Colorado #NatureWriting #Rivers #COwx #NewMexico #PublicLands

Workshops 2024 Workshop List

I am one of the featured authors and the Mesa Verde Literary Festival!

Drop in and say hi!

www.mesaverdewritersconference.org/festival-aut... || #Colorado #NewMexico #Rivers #FountainBook.

Fountain erosion project nearly finished but section of Southmoor Drive to remain closed for near future FOUNTAIN, Colo. (KRDO) — The threat of severe erosion along Fountain Creek led officials to close a section of a neighborhood street five years ago; now,

Fountain erosion project nearly finished but section of Southmoor Drive to remain closed for near future | KRDO krdo.com/news/top-sto... || #FountainBook #Colorado

1/2 Upcoming readings for my book "Fountain Creek" #Colorado #FountainBook

May 22: 5pm, Pueblo, El Pueblo Hist Museum
May 25: Crested Butte, Mtn Words Fest
July 12: Mancos, Mesa Verde Lit Fest
July 15: 6PM, Pueblo, Shamrock Brewing
July 17, 6PM, CO Springs, TBA

#Rivers #COwx #COwater

Torrey House Press | FOUNTAIN CREEK by Jim O'Donnell From its headwaters high up Colorado’s legendary Pike’s Peak to suburban concrete-lined canals, Fountain Creek has endured nearly everything humans could do to a single watershed. It has been dammed, ...

Grab a copy of my book "Fountain Creek" online at: www.torreyhouse.org/fountain-creek OR....at one of these quality #Colorado locations:

Poor Richards (CO Springs)
Mountain Chalet (CO Springs)
Fountain Creek Nature Center
Analogue Bookstore (Pueblo)
El Pueblo Hist Museum (Pueblo)

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