April 22nd, 2023 | Fire mitigation for landowners. Learn skills related to fire mitigation for landowners.
Defensible space
Chainsaw 101 - Hands on!
Slash management & burn piles
Stacking for chipping
Funding & cost share opportunities
Meet other landowners!
April 26th, 2023 | Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden. In "Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden," poet and scholar Camille T. Dungy recounts the seven-year odyssey to diversify her garden in the predominantly white community of Fort Collins, Colorado. When she moved there in 2013, with her husband and daughter, the community held strict restrictions about what residents could and could not plant in their gardens. Join the conversation as Camille takes us on a tour of her garden, her story, stewardship, and equity.
April 27, 12:30-3:30 pm | Careers in Natural Resources Summit | CAEE. Are you interested in being part of a network that is creating more pathways to outdoor and environmental careers for Colorado youth? Do you want to help contribute to career development tools for young adult job-seekers? Join CAEE and the Colorado Youth Corps Association at the 2023 Careers in Natural Resources Summit!
April 29th, 2023 | High School Spring Stewardship Day | The Greenway Foundation. Join for our annual Spring High School South Platte Stewardship Day! Teens along the front range will help clean our city and South Platte River habitats by picking up trash in and along the River at Johnson Habitat Park. Service hours can be provided. Registration will open on March 29th, 2023.
April 30th, 2023 | City Nature Challenge Bio Blitz | Denver Audubon Nature Center. Help Denver compete in the International City Nature Challenge (CNC)! This ongoing project documents urban biodiversity and engages residents in the nature found all around them. The 2023 Denver Metro Nature Challenge will take place from April 28 –May 1 utilizing the popular iNaturalist.org app to collect observations made of local wildlife or plants—anyone can participate using the app and their smartphone.
May 10th, 2023 | Annual Children’s Water Festival. This year marks the 25th year the Southwestern Water Conservation District (SWCD) has been hosting an annual children’s water festival in Southwest Colorado. The Children's Water Festival presents a unique opportunity to educate fifth grade students about local water issues and the environment and helps them understand how they can protect water supplies and their environment. Volunteers are needed!
May 18th, 2023 | Trinidad Water Festival. Save the date!
May 31st-June 1st, 2023 | Drought Summit | CWCB. The 2023 Drought Summit will bring together local and state partners, technical experts, and community over two days at History Colorado in Denver with sessions exploring drought lessons learned, innovative funding opportunities, the Urban Landscape Conservation Task Force's ongoing work, Wildfire Ready Watersheds, lessons from the field in agriculture, Colorado River issues, balancing storage and conservation, drought innovation and resiliency planning, and more.
June 2nd-July 1st, 2023 | Run Off - Call for Art | Friends of the Yampa. Friends of the Yampa seek artworks that celebrate the Yampa River and its surrounding watershed. Runoff, a community art show, is in its second year presented by Friends of the Yampa. The mission of Runoff is to bring together artworks that inspire the preservation of water resources, and demonstrate a variety of stakeholder ties to the Yampa River Basin.
June 5th-7th, 2023 | Becoming a Climate Change Educator in Every Discipline - WCU Teacher Institute. Begin (or continue) your journey of becoming a climate change educator by pairing concrete facts about the mechanisms of climate change with the human elements: personal experiences, storytelling, and collective action.
June 12th, 2023 | Colorado Brownfields Conference. This year’s theme, Brownfields – Redevelopment Gold, explores the many opportunities associated with brownfields. With unprecedented levels of funding for brownfields cleanup and support and an ever-growing need for community revitalization and affordable housing, it’s time to cash in on the Redevelopment Gold! Everyone from community leaders and municipal staff to consultants and development professionals will be able to learn, grow, and network at this year’s conference. The Call for Sessions opens January 10th through February 26th.