Coming in fall 2025, the Upper Merced River Watershed Council will work with interested Midpines community members to launch a BEAR CREEK CLEANUP. This area was hit hard with flooding in 2023 and could use some TLC.

The Upper Merced River Watershed Council's Board of Directors is pleased to announce that its completion of the Bureau of Reclamation's 2021 WaterSmart Cooperative Watershed Management Program Phase 1 Grant AND the securing of a second grant WaterSMART grant for 2024-2027. This will enable the Watershed Council to implement its Watershed Work Plan.

Ensuring water quality is an important Wild and Scenic River value. The Upper Merced River Watershed Council’s water quality monitoring program is a decades-long citizen science effort done in collaboration with federal agencies and nonprofit partners. Community volunteers participate in real scientific data collection to help monitor water quality along the Merced Wild and Scenic River.

The Watershed Council offers a scholarship to a Mariposa County graduating senior majoring in the sciences.

Each year, the Watershed Council and local partners like the Sierra Nevada Alliance and Sierra Foothill Conservancy organize a volunteer events focused on removing trash and restoring the health of watersheds throughout the Sierra Nevada Region.