Doors open at 6pm for free refreshments and a cash bar
SteamPlant Event Center Theater and Theater Lobby/Paquette Gallery
Executive producer Suez Jacobson brings her film Wild Hope to the screen at 7 pm. Ms. Jacobson will answer your questions, followed by a short local BLM public lands film and BLM Royal Gorge public lands slide show presented by John Sztukowski, Wild Connections Conservation Director. Later there will be an opportunity to comment on BLM’s Royal Gorge Resource Management Plan. By 8:30, there will be time to chat with presenters until closing time at 9 pm.
Wild Connections, Friends of Browns Canyon, 350-CC, GARNA, Sangre de Cristo Group of Sierra Club, Collegiate Peaks Chapter of Trout Unlimited and other co-sponsors are hosting this event to call for public action to comment on BLM’s Eastern Colorado Resource Management Plan. The draft plan has egregious omissions of protections For example, BLM reduced over 278,000 acres of proposed conservation protections to just 47,600 acres due to interference from Washington and the "Energy First" Administration.
Volunteer for a South Park Alpine Restoration Project
Trekking up to Sheep Creek in the distance. Photo Misi Ballard
Sheep Creek - Road Removal Saturday, Aug 31 - Sunday, Sept 1
Breakfast at 7:00 am
Work orientation at 8:00 am sharp
Work until the afternoon storms threaten.
Dinner at the camp site.
Rated difficult - hiking at altitude; shovel, mattock work.
Beneath Sheep mountain, down under Sheep Ridge lays the majestic Sheep Creek. Join us here for this great Labor Day weekend removing and restoring a degraded and illegal road.
WRV provides all meals, tools and organizes the work tasks. Camping will be on roadside tent sites designated by the Forest Service. Come prepared with weather-appropriate camping gear and attire!
S Park Ranger District and WRV have ripped the raod bed and brought up straw mulch.
Hike into the wilds
Grape Creek Day Hike
Temple Canyon to Ecology Park
Saturday, September 7, 2019
9:00 AM to 4:00 PM (Trailhead to Trailhead Hiking Times)
A BLM Wildlands Outing
This hike will explore Grape Creek from Temple Canyon, a Cañon City park, to Ecology Park, a recreation area near Cañon City and south of Royal Gorge, which is jointly managed between the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and Fremont County. We will learn about the BLM’s Resource Management Plan, and how it could affect the area and also how these areas are threatened by oil and gas development and proposed mining.
This hike, sponsored by Pikes Peak Group Sierra Club, Wild Connections, and Central Colorado Wilderness Coalition, will cover about five miles and is rated moderately strenuous because most of it is off-trail along a stream bottom, with numerous stream crossings and some easy climbing over obstacles.
Bring lunch, water, clothing suitable for the weather conditions, and footwear suitable for hiking with repeated stream crossings (with no time to change in and out of wet footwear). For more information or to register for the hike, contact Jim Lockhart at 719-385-0045 or jlock@datawest.net.
Note: This hike is posted on multiple forums, however space is limited. To officially register, you must contact the hike leader, Jim, at the above contact info.
Wild Connections' mission is to identify, protect, and restore wildlands, native species,
and biological diversity in the Arkansas and South Platte watersheds
