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RMFI Annual Report 2018 2018 Annual Report Rocky Mountain Field Institute Letter from the Director Dear RMFI Supporters, With each passing year, we find ourselves more excited for the next - excited to tackle new projects, continue legacy projects, engage with new partners, enhance existing partnerships, create greater impact, and make the next year better than the last. With that said, 2018 was quite a year! From the desert plains of eastern Utah to the high alpine peaks of the Sangre de Cristos, RMFI had a hand in stewarding public landscapes at over two dozen project sites with the help of more than 2,300 volunteers and countless partners - who together make the work we do possible. “Thank you” just doesn’t seem sufficient to express our immense gratitude to each of you who believe in our mission, invest in our mission, and cheer us on every step of the way. We are truly grateful to have the opportunity to do what we do and feel more than ever that our work is vital to ensuring our public lands remain accessible, sustainable, and resilient for generations to come. Some highlights of the year include helping to finish the new Dixon Trail in Cheyenne Mountain State Park (final touches to come in 2019), wrapping up our nearly two-decades of work on Pikes Peak (see pages 12-13 for more info), securing a grant to help facilitate a public planning process for Waldo Canyon, hosting the 10th annual RMFI Fall ShinDIG, being recognized as the Outstanding Community Partner of the Year by Colorado College, among Photo courtesy of Stephen Toledo. others. Photo courtesy of the Catamount Institute. Photo courtesy of Jim Blazek. What does 2019 bring? A new website, a new strategic plan, a new 5-year agreement with the U.S. Forest Service to complete watershed health improvement projects on the Pike National Forest, a new 3-year agreement with the Bureau of Land Management - Royal Gorge Field Office to complete stewardship projects at highly visited recreation sites, a new 3-year grant to begin the construction of a more sustainable summit route to Pikes Peak via the Devil’s Playground Trail, and so much more. We invite you to read the following pages for an in-depth look at what we accomplished in 2018 and also ask you to engage with us in 2019 as we embark on yet another year filled with exciting projects and initiatives. Thank you for your support! Sincerely, Jennifer Peterson RMFI.ORG | 2 Pikes Peak, Justin Peterson RMFI.ORG | 3 Stewardship Education Research RMFI actively engages thousands of community volunteers and youth Through experiential education opportunities, RMFI is helping foster an RMFI monitors the effectiveness of restoration and erosion control corps crew members each year in the stewardship of public natural ethic of environmental responsibility and training the next generation of treatments at many project sites to better understand our impacts on landscapes in Southern Colorado. conservation leaders. ecosystem health. Mission: Rocky Mountain Field Institute promotes the conservation and stewardship of public lands in the Southern Rocky Mountain region through volunteer-based trail and restoration projects, environmental education, and restoration research. RMFI.ORG | 4 RMFI.ORG | 5 2018 Project Locations High Alpine For the past 36 years, RMFI has accomplished its mission by completing a wide variety of important trail and Kit Carson/Challenger Point restoration projects in recreational areas throughout the Southern Rocky Mountains and Colorado Plateau. Devil’s Playground Trail RMFI has received national, state, and local recognition for its stewardship work that is widely regarded as Pikes Peak some of the finest work of its kind accomplished in the region. Devil’s Playground Trail, Kellen Spencer Photography Our stewardship model centers on community engagement as a means of connecting people to the outdoors, providing sustainable outdoor recreation opportunities, and fostering an ethic of environmental responsibility and stewardship. From recreational trail work to watershed protection and fire rehabilitation, our work keeps Colorado’s great outdoors great. Montane Barr Trail Bear Creek Black Forest Regional Park Cheyenne Mountain State Park High Drive Pineries Open Space Upper Monument Creek Barr Trail, Peter Maksimow Waldo Canyon Pinon Juniper/Foothills Blodgett Peak Open Space Garden of the Gods Palmer Park Red Rock Canyon Open Space Stratton Open Space Ute Valley Park Plains/Desert Indian Creek, Utah RMFI.ORG | 6 RMFI.ORG | 7 Before and after photos showing construction of a Before and after photos showing the process of closing new rock staircase at RMFI’s project location in Indian and restoring a redundant social trail in Stratton Open Creek, Utah. This staircase will help facilitate safer and Space. more sustainable access to popular climbing walls in the area. A rock staircase constructed on the new summit trail A hybrid timber box step and bike ramp structure to Kit Carson Peak and Challenger Point in the Sangre constructed in Red Rock Canyon Open Space to de Cristos for the purpose of creating a durable and facilitate use by multiple goups including bikers, hikers, sustainable route that protects the surrounding fragile and runners. tundra and facilitates safer outdoor recreation. Before and after photos showing construction of a puncheon structure in the Pineries Open Space located in Black Forest, Colorado. This structure was necessary to keep users out of an ephemeral drainage that became extremely muddy when wet. RMFI.ORG | 8 Joe Lavorini Canyon Burn Scar, Waldo RMFI.ORG | 9 Before and after photos showing construction of the 2018 Project Highlight Dixon Trail in Cheyenne Mountain State Park. DIXON TRAIL - CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN STATE PARK After years of anticipation, the long-awaited Dixon Trail finally opened to the public in the fall of 2018. This 5.2 mile trail connects the bottom of Cheyenne Mountain State Park to the Top of the Mountain (TOM) Trail, a 3.6 mile trail circuit completed by RMFI in 2015. RMFI has been working since 2013 to design and construct the TOM and Dixon Trails in partnership with Colorado Parks and Wildlife, Cheyenne Mountain State Park, Friends of Cheyenne Mountain State Park, Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado, REI, and others. Since that time, RMFI has actively engaged 211 volunteers and 53 youth conservation corps members who, along with RMFI field staff, have contributed nearly 12,000 hours of on-the-ground work over the course of 206 workdays. On October 26, 2018, a grand opening celebration was held at Cheyenne Mountain State Park to recognize the completion of Photo courtesy of Tim Bergsten. the project and the hard work of many who made the project possible. This was an especially meaningful project for RMFI as it Before and after photos showing construction of the was the last trail designed by RMFI’s founder, Mark Hesse, before Dixon Trail in Cheyenne Mountain State Park. his untimely passing in January 2014. RMFI will be continuing work on the Dixon and TOM Trails in 2019 in an effort to refine the trail corridor and shore up some stabilizing structures built in previous seasons. Photo courtesy of Colorado Springs Independent. RMFI.ORG | 10 RMFI.ORG | 11 2018 Project Highlight PIKES PEAK WATERSHED Pikes Peak, renowned as ‘America’s Mountain,’ hovers over the City of Colorado Springs and reaches a height of 14,115 feet. The mountain provides critical habitat for a wide range of native flora and fauna and is also of significant local importance as a principal water source for the communities of Colorado Springs and Manitou Springs. In 1998, the Sierra Club filed suit in U.S. District Court against the City of Colorado Springs and the U.S. Forest Service alleging violations of the Clean Water Act in the management of the Pikes Peak Highway. In 2000, the Court ruled in favor of the Sierra Club and instructed the City of Colorado Springs and the U.S. Forest Service to address the erosion and sedimentation problems of the highway and to bring the road into compliance with the provisions Photo courtesy of Dean Waits. of the Clean Water Act. The court set a timeline of 10 years for these improvements to be made. Under the settlement, $600,000 dollars was also awarded to the Sierra Club for remediation and restoration work outside the highway corridor. These monies were placed into a fund (the Pikes Peak Fund), with the Sierra Club, the City of Colorado Springs, and the U.S. Forest Service acting as partners to ensure the best use of these monies for erosion control and restoration work. In 2003, RMFI was contracted by the Pikes Peak Fund to assess the environmental damage outside the highway corridor and begin prioritizing basins within the watershed for erosion control and restoration projects. Four basins - North Crystal Creek, Severy Creek, Ski Creek, and the East Fork of Beaver Creek - were identified as high priorities, and for the past 16 years, RMFI has been working closely with all project partners to remediate and restore impacted areas within the watershed. In 2018, RMFI completed all projects associated with the legal settlement and closed out the Pikes Peak Fund. In celebration of nearly two decades of work, a Pikes Peak Celebration was held on September 8, 2018 to tour key restoration sites and celebrate the many successes and partnerships that made the work possible. RMFI.ORG | 12 RMFI.ORG | 13 Participants simulate treatment protocols during the Wilderness First Aid training held at the RMFI office in 2018 in partnership with MEDIC SOLO. Photo courtesy Environmental Education of Dallas Branum. EARTH CORPS FIELD STUDIES COURSE: RMFI’s signature field studies course completed its 17th year in 2018. Eight students from across the country lived, worked, learned, and played in the Sangre de Cristo Wilderness helping to construct the new summit trail to Kit Carson Peak and Challenger Point.
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