2018 GRANT APPLICATION PITKIN COUNTY HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (HHS) CITY OF ASPEN HHS ONLY AND PITKIN COUNTY COMMUNITY NON-PROFITS (CNP)

Non-Eligible Organizations for County Funding:

The Healthy Community Fund does not consider applications for funding in the following areas: capital projects, the Arts (e.g. theatre, art, and music programs), day care, one-time sports events or for grant-making foundations or organizations which distribute funds to recipients of their own selection.

Agency Name: Wilderness Workshop Tax ID#: 74-1900412 Year 501.C.3 Status Obtained: 1967 Website: www.wildernessworkshop.org Email: [email protected] Executive Director: Sloan Shoemaker Address: PO Box 1442 City: Carbondale State: CO Zip Code: 81656 Contact Person: Rebecca Mirsky, Development Director Contact Person Email: [email protected] Contact Person Phone #: 970-963-3977

Agency/Program Description (check one): Health & Human Services* Community Non-Profit** Funds Requested for (check one): Annual Grant We are not accepting new Partnerships as 2019 is the HCF renewal year. Amount Requested: $20,000 Amount Received in 2017: $16,000

*Health and Human Services agencies are defined as programs addressing issues related to youth, family and senior well-being, physical health and substance abuse prevention.

**Community Non-Profit organizations are defined as programs that enhance and enrich the quality of life in Pitkin County and complement basic health and human services offered through providing additional needed services and optimize efforts to improve and sustain the County’s natural resources.

New Grant Requirement: Pitkin County is requiring agencies seeking HCF funding to create and maintain an updated profile in the Western Slope 2-1-1 database. Please take the time to create (or update) your profile and program descriptions by visiting www.wc211.org.

City of Aspen Funding:

Agencies may request City of Aspen Health and Human Services funding by completing this page. The request will be considered as part of the HCF Citizen Grant Review Process with City of Aspen staff participation. All City of Aspen Health and Humans Services Funding is on an annual basis ONLY. To apply, please answer the following questions:

PLEASE NOTE: For City of Aspen Community Non-Profit (CNP) funding, please see the City Arts and CNP Application located at: http://www.aspenpitkin.com/departments/finance-city-of-aspen/grants

Amount of the annual grant request to the City: $5,500

Purpose of request (Please review your text carefully, as responses are limited to a maximum of 1,000 characters, including spaces): To support the Wilderness Monitoring Program, the Habitat Resoration Program, and the Naturalist Nights speaker series. More details are given in our full City grant application.

Please indicate the number of City residents who use the services provided by your program: All City residents – everyone benefits from a healthy backcountry.

Please describe why the City should support your program (Please review your text carefully, as responses are limited to a maximum of 2,000 characters, including spaces): The programs for which we’re requesting funding in this application are unique, and are conducted in collaboration with other entities: • Our Wilderness Monitoring Program, operating in partnership with the Aspen-Sopris Ranger District since 1984, provides the only scientific baseline dataset on air and water pollutants – which are of particular concern for our area, since the natural gas boom now occurring in Garfield County is directly upwind. • Our Habitat Restoration Series Program, operating in partnership with the Forest Service and other valley non-profits each summer on 4-5 restoration projects in the valley. These projects accomplish two important goals: on the ground benefits to ecosystems and deepening the connection of valley residents to the surrounding public lands. • Our Naturalist Nights winter speaker series, co-hosted with ACES and Roaring Fork Audubon, offers a unique program of natural history presentations that has grown to be an important component of Aspen’s educational calendar.

All new and annual Healthy Community Fund grantees please continue to complete this application.

Should you have any questions, please contact: Lisa Yorker | Health & Human Services | (970) 920-5179 | [email protected]

Part I: Community Goals

Please indicate which ONE of the Community Goals best describes your grant’s primary focus:

HHS Agencies (programs addressing issues related to youth, family, and senior well-being, physical health, mental health and substance abuse prevention):

☐ Family and Youth Well-Being: Promote the social, emotional and economic well-being of families and youth ☐ Physical Health: Promote the preventive, palliative and primary health needs of individuals and families ☐ Mental Health & Substance Abuse Prevention: Promote the psychological well-being of individuals, provide treatment and promote prevention of substance abuse ☐ The Well-Being of Seniors: Provide a variety of physical, social and educational activities

CNP Agencies (programs that enhance and enrich the quality of life in Pitkin County, complement basic health and human services offered through providing additional needed services, and optimize efforts to improve and sustain the County's natural resources):

☐ Cultural, Recreational and Educational Treasurers: Promote and optimize quality of life for residents and workers of Pitkin County ☐ Environmental Quality: Enhance and sustain the natural resources in Pitkin County and the

Please note that all information provided in your grant application with become part of the public record.

Part II: Proposal Narrative:

1) Please state your organization’s mission statement: The Wilderness Workshop’s mission is to protect and conserve the wilderness and natural resources of the Roaring Fork Watershed, the White River National Forest, and adjacent public lands. 2) What community need does your program fill? What community benefit are you providing? (Please review your text carefully, as responses are limited to a maximum of 1,600 characters, including spaces): The Wilderness Workshop provides environmental protection services to the people of Pitkin County. We are the conservation watchdog of the public lands of the Roaring Fork Valley and the Central Mountains. Simply, we keep surrounding wildlands wild, ecologically important areas "as is" - natural, unspoiled, undeveloped - and protect our environment from the impacts of development elsewhere.

The existing wilderness areas that we all cherish are protected in perpetuity from extractive uses and other forms of development. However, certain high-use areas are in danger of being “loved to death”; the Wilderness Monitoring Program provides the solid data on which to base management decisions to ensure the sustainable use of the wilderness that forms an important engine of our valley’s prosperity and a vital component of our quality of life. Additionally, our local wilderness areas are vulnerable to air and water pollution from upwind sources and invasive weeds brought in from the outside.

WW's Oil & Gas Defense Program intervenes through bureaucratic processes, legislative advocacy, grassroots organizing and communications – typically in partnership with other local, regional and national groups – to prevent drilling in ecologically sensitive areas and to minimize the impacts where development occurs. This of course has become a critical community need, as the Thompson Divide in western Pitkin County faces the threat of oil and gas development.

Our request of $20,000 is intended to be split between Wilderness Monitoring ($10000) and Oil & Gas Defense ($10000).

3) What programs or services will this money support (who, when, where and how)? (Please review your text carefully, as responses are limited to a maximum of 2,000 characters, including spaces): This grant request is to support two service delivery goals. (See appendix for details)

1. Collect baseline data to provide an early-warning system of adverse impacts to the environment and population of Pitkin County and the wider region. • Air quality monitoring - WW staff collects filters from the monitoring station atop Aspen Mountain and Sunlight Peak and ship them to the Crocker Nuclear Lab at UC Davis for processing and analysis. • Water monitoring - Water samples are collected from 16 sensitive alpine wilderness lakes across the WRNF and shipped to a USFS lab to test for pollutants. • Invasive weed monitoring - WW id's and maps noxious weeds in the high-elevation wilderness lands to assist the USFS eradications efforts, preventing weed spread onto adjacent private lands in Pitco. • Monitoring of Wilderness Overuse Management – WW will be partnering with the Aspen Sopris Ranger District to develop and implement a monitoring regime testing the efficacy of new management strategies.

2. Minimize the impacts of oil & gas development to Pitkin County and the region

While we aren’t categorically opposed to natural gas drilling. We think it doesn’t belong everywhere and, where it’s done, it must be done right. WW will focus on the following main objectives in 2017-2018. (Please note that this is sensitive strategic information and we ask you to keep it in confidence.) • Minimize further oil and gas development on ecologically important public lands. • Oppose Thompson Divide drilling plans.

We want to reassure you that we are not asking HCF to fund any work involving actual litigation or lawsuits. Our Oil & Gas Defense Program does employ what's known as administrative law, but that is the practice of using administrative procedures to get federal agencies to follow their own rules and regulations.

4) What is the total number of unduplicated clients served? What number of your clients live in Pitkin County? What number of your clients work in Pitkin County? (Please review your text carefully, as responses are limited to a maximum of 800 characters, including spaces): The beneficiaries of our work are anyone who benefits from the preservation of wildlife, wildlife habitats, and wild places on the federal public lands surrounding our community – i.e., the 50,000 local residents and visitors to the greater Roaring Fork watershed and the dozen or so communities throughout the WRNF area. Our service area encompasses the greater WRNF, from the Flat Tops to McClure Pass to Independence Pass to Eisenhower Tunnel. Pitkin County residents and workers account for 25 percent of the population within this area. The work for which we’re seeking funding occurs largely within Pitkin County, addresses activities that have impacts on Pitkin County or protects the landscapes across the region that Pitkin residents and visitors alike enjoy. 5) If your organization’s work is similar or related to other non-profits in the valley, please identify those organizations and help us understand the similarities (and/or differences) in your work. (Please review your text carefully, as responses are limited to a maximum of 2,000 characters, including spaces): The Wilderness Workshop is the only organization monitoring and defending the ecological health of the federal public lands surrounding the Roaring Fork Valley. Of the several other environmental groups in the valley, WW is distinct in that it is focused full- time on the federal lands that make up 80% of Pitkin County; we advocate primarily for the wildlife and ecology of these lands, as opposed to human uses of them; and we specializes in the highly technical federal agency processes that, for better or worse, determine how these lands are to be developed and administered.

We partner with other entities on almost all our projects, for two good reasons. First, there are several conservation/environmental nonprofits in the valley, so it makes sense to work together on issues where we overlap. Second, as a local nonprofit we gain strength by forming coalitions with regional and national partners when weighing in on federal land-use processes. Both the projects for which we’re seeking funding involve partnerships: • Our Wilderness Monitoring Program is the US Forest Service’s longest partnership with any local nonprofit. It provides noxious occurrence data which helps the USFS and Pitco in weed control and iradication efforts. Our air quality monitoring atop Ajax complements the City of Aspen's in town monitoring, giving a complete picture. • As mentioned, the Oil & Gas Defense Program partners with the Thompson Divide Coalition and Pitkin County; it also works with EarthJustice and the Natural Resources Defense Council on various federal agency processes relating to leases on the White River National Forest and nearby BLM lands.

For agencies requesting OVER $10,000, please complete the following outcomes-based performance plan. Please refer to the grant guidelines (emailed to you or located at http://www.pitkincounty.com/579/Application-Process for more information.

Outcomes-Based Performance Plan:

Please indicate at least two service delivery goals, objectives, outcome measures and community benefits. Note each response has a character limit, which includes spaces.

Service Delivery Goal (SG1) (500 character limit): SG1: Collect baseline data to provide an early-warning system of adverse environmental impacts. Objectives (500 character limit): 1. Ensure a 100% timely collection rate on weekly air monitoring at the top of Ajax and NADP site on Sunlight Peak. 2. Ensure a 100% timely collection rate on water sampling in 16 high-elevation lakes in three monthly cycles per summer. 3. Identify and plot all invasive weeds observed in wilderness areas while en route to water monitoring sites. Outcome measures (500 character limit): 1. 100% timely collection rate on weekly air monitoring at the top of Ajax and NADP site on Sunlight Peak. 2. 100% timely collection rate on water sampling in 16 high-elevation lakes in three monthly cycles per summer. 3. Consistent quality of reporting of invasive weeds observed in wilderness areas. Community Benefit(s) Summary (800 character limit): This monitoring provides the community with a rock-solid data record, which serves as 1) a "canary in the coalmine" indicator of emerging environmental threats and 2) a legal and scientific basis for challenging any development that is causing the impacts.

Service Delivery Goal (SG2) (500 character limit): SG2: Minimizing the harmful impacts of oil and gas extraction on roadless and other ecologically sensitive lands in the White River National Forest. Objectives (500 character limit): 1. Minimize further oil and gas development on ecologically important public lands, including roadless areas, important habitat for wildlife, and potential wilderness areas, by filing technical comments on proposed gas development project. 2. Oppose Thompson Divide drilling plans. 3.Support legislation permanently withdrawing the Thompson Divide from new oil and gas leasing. Outcome measures (500 character limit): 1.Work to reduce the number of oil and gas leases issued in our service area. Ensure that development proposals that move forward actually protect important ecological resources to the maximum extent possible. Push federal land managers to take a hard look at the impacts to climate that new proposed oil and gas leasing and development will have. 2. Successfully oppose plans by industry to drill on Thompson Divide leases that haven’t been cancelled.If they aren’t drilling, we’ve succeeded.

Community Benefit(s) Summary (800 character limit): Continued from above SG2 Outcome Measures: 3. Actual passage of a legislation permanently withdrawing the Thompson Divide from new leasing Community Benefits: Each of these actions, if successful, will significantly reduce the impacts to Pitkin County and Roaring Fork Valley residents of oil and gas development in the region, including air pollution, economic harm, loss of wildlife habitat, human health problems and socioeconomic upheavals. And, just as importantly, our actions in defense of the Thompson Divide will reduce the cost of buying out the leases literally by millions of dollars of this community's money - which, of course, can and should be put to better use.

Service Delivery Goal (SG3) (500 character limit): Objectives (500 character limit): Outcome measures (500 character limit): Community Benefit(s) Summary (800 character limit):

Service Delivery Goal (SG4) (500 character limit): Objectives (500 character limit): Outcome measures (500 character limit): Community Benefit(s) Summary (800 character limit):

Financial Summary Sheet for Delivery of Local Services All Grantees must complete this sheet for the part of their organization that provides the services intended by the HCF grant.

Agency Name: Wilderness Workshop

Year Ending: Year Ending: Year Ending: 2016 2017 2018 Last Year Actual Budget Current Year Next Year Total Income 1,064,033 555,181 667,225

% Earned 0 2.8% 2.9%

% Contributed 98% 96.5% 97%

EXPENSES

Office & Occupancy 72,937 83,750 73,800 Expenses Executive Director’s Total 83,000 83,000 83,000 Compensation

Payroll & Related Expenses 497,107 458,581 563,750

Marketing & Fundraising 20864 12,500 21,00 Expenses

Program Expenses 80,650 59,700 91,700

TOTAL EXPENSES 671,599 494,551 750,250

BALANCE SHEET

Current Assets 925017 483992 840,827

Fixed Assets 44517 40927 44517

Other Assets 3592 3592 3592

TOTAL ASSETS 973126 592199 888936

Current Liabilities 21360 32908 6139

Other Liabilities 15947 18230 0

Retained Earnings 502302 461060 894325

TOTAL LIABILITIES & 973126 592439 888963 EQUITY

Checklist

Be sure to attach the following appendices to the completed grant application. Please label all appendices as shown below.

☐ Appendix A: A current list of your Board of Directors (indicate full time Pitkin County residents with an asterisk), members and officers, including addresses and telephone numbers

☐ Appendix B: A current list of staff with their titles and key credentials

☐ Appendix C: IRS Determination Letter indicating tax-exempt status

☐ Appendix D: A list of all major contributors ($1,000+) and grantors ($500+) with amounts contributed to your organization for 2016 and 2017 year-to-date

☐ Appendix E: Annual Actual-to-Budget comparisons for fiscal year-end in 2015 and 2016

☐ Appendix F: Annual Actual Balance Sheet for fiscal year-end in 2015 and 2016

☐ Appendix G: Current Year-to-Date Actual-to-Budget Comparison and Balance Sheet

☐ Appendix H: Projected Organizational Budget for 2018 showing revenues and expenses

Comments: (please state the reason for any missing appendices or financial summary sheets) Please see the attached Supplmentary Budget for the foci of the grant request.

Pease note that due to an anonymous one-time gift in 2016 to start an Endowment Account for WW, there is a variance between the 2016 actuals and budget for 2016 and 2017.

We have not created a 2018 Budget at this time. Please let us know if you would like us to send one as soon as one is produced.

GRANT DEADLINE IS JULY 31, 2017 AT 4:00PM

Late submissions will NOT be accepted. An electronic and printed copy are both required and must be

received by the deadline. Please read “Submission Instructions” below for more details.

Sloan Shoemaker, 7/31/17

Executive Director Signature (please type full name)

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Executive Director Signature Date Signed

Submission Instructions: Once you have completed the application, please complete the following:

1) Save a copy for your records 2) Submit a copy electronically to [email protected] 3) Mail or deliver a single-sided, unstapled copy to: Pitkin County HHS | Attn: Lisa Yorker | 0405 Castle Creek Rd., Suite 112 | Aspen, CO 81611 Confirmation of Application: You will receive an e-mail confirmation that your electronic application has been received within 48 hours. If you do not receive conformation, please contact Lisa Yorker at (970) 920-5179

P.O. BOX 1442 Grant Committee CARBONDALE, CO 81623 c/o Lisa Yorker Pitkin County HHS TEL (970) 963-3977 0405 Castle Creek Rd., Suite 112 FAX (970) 963-8447 Aspen, CO 81611 www.wildernessworkshop.org [email protected] July 28, 2017

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Dear Grant Committee, ANDY WIESSNER President On behalf of Wilderness Workshop’s staff and board of directors, thank you for MICHAEL MCVOY Pitkin County’s critical past support of Wilderness Workshop. I am pleased to Vice President submit Wilderness Workshop’s 2018 Community Non-Profit grant application for CHARLES HOPTON Environmental Quality. This grant request supports our Wilderness Monitoring Co-Treasurer Program and our Oil and Gas Defense Program, both of which are part of our PETER LOORAM Co-Treasurer Forest Watchdog Program, WW’s general operating program that provides CICI FOX environmental protection services to the White River National Forest region of Secretary . MARY DOMINICK SUE EDELSTEIN Wilderness Workshop is dedicated to educating, advocating, and connecting with LINDSAY GURLEY our community on important issues affecting our wild places. We are deeply ALLYN HARVEY grateful for your time and consideration of our grant application. JILL SOFFER Please don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions you might have. KARIN TEAGUE

ARON RALSTON Sincerely, MICHAEL STRANAHAN

PETER VAN DOMELEN TED ZUKOSKI

FOUNDERS JOY CAUDILL DOTTIE FOX* Rebecca Mirsky CONNIE HARVEY Development Director

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR SLOAN SHOEMAKER

*Deceased

“Going wild since 1967” Federal Tax ID Number 74-1900412 Printed on 100% post-consumer recycled paper Pitkin County HCF 2018 Grant Application: Wilderness Workshop, Appendix A

Wilderness Workshop Board of Directors

*ANDY WIESSNER, President 6650 E. Sopris Creek Rd. , CO 81654 970-927-6521

*MICHAEL MCVOY, Vice President P.O. Box 4590 Basalt, CO 81621 970-963-9001

*CHARLES HOPTON, Co-Treasurer 0149 East Lupine Drive Aspen, CO 81611 970-925-1511

*PETER LOORAM, Co-Treasurer 280 Glen Eagle Dr. Aspen, CO 81611 970-920-1749

CICI FOX, Secretary 1000 County Rd. 113 Carbondale, CO 81623 970-945-7620

*MARY DOMINICK P.O. Box 5082 Aspen, CO 81612 970-925-7892

SUE EDELSTEIN 678 Northbridge Dr. Carbondale, CO 81623 970-963-2163

LINDSAY GURLEY P.O. Box 688 Carbondale, CO 81623 970-618-2342

ALLYN HARVEY 957 Buckingham Dr. Carbondale, CO 81623 970-618-2342

Pitkin County HCF 2018 Grant Application: Wilderness Workshop, Appendix A ARON RALSTON 928 Mapleton Ave. Boulder, CO 80304 970-319-9030

JILL SOFFER 561 Spring Park Ranch Rd. Carbondale, CO 81623 970-963-2773

*MICHAEL STRANAHAN 148 Riverdown Dr. Aspen, CO 81611 970-923-3437

KARIN TEAGUE P.O. Box 4073 Basalt, CO 81621 970-274-9690

*PETER VAN DOMELEN P.O. Box 1302 Aspen, CO 81612 970-927-4468

TED ZUKOSKI 1105 Ithaca Drive Boulder, CO 80305 303-996-9622

Pitkin County HCF 2018 Grant Application: Wilderness Workshop, Appendix B

Wilderness Workshop Staff

Sloan Shoemaker, Executive Director. A WW staffer since 1997, Sloan leads the WW team and directly oversees the organization’s conservation work. The president of the Colorado Bark Beetle Cooperative, he’s recognized as one of the state’s leading policy experts on beetle-wildfire ecology, and has testified before a special Congressional oversight committee on mitigating the impacts of the pine bark beetle epidemic in Colorado. He has crafted all phases of WW’s comments on the WRNF Travel Management Plan, has testified before the Roadless Area Conservation National Advisory Committee on behalf of the Colorado conservation community, and led the effort to develop a Citizen’s Management Alternative for the WRNF’s revised Land and Resource Management Plan. Prior to joining WW in 1997, Sloan worked for the Environmental Research Group in Aspen, and before that was a professional photographer, ski instructor, backcountry guide, and volunteer with Mountain Rescue Aspen. He has served as the President of the Board of KDNK Community Radio in Carbondale, and is a graduate of Leadership Aspen. Sloan has a B.A. in English from Washington & Lee University and did master’s studies at the University of in Environmental Policy and Management. He’s married with two children and lives in a solar-heated strawbale home he built with his wife outside of Carbondale.

Peter Hart, Conservation Analyst/Staff Attorney. Peter is the point person for WW’s defensive work. That means he’s in charge of WW’s NEPA (National Environment Policy Act) work – reviewing proposed actions (gas leases, rule changes, forest health projects, recreational developments, etc.), filing technical comments on Environmental Impact Statements and the like, and working with outside counsel on legal actions. A native of Vail, Peter earned a law degree and master’s degree in environmental law from the University of Denver. Prior to joining WW, Peter clerked for the water rights division of the Colorado Attorney General’s Office, worked on endangered species claims at the University of Denver Environmental Law Clinic, and worked on toxic tort litigation at a Denver law firm.

Will Roush, Conservation Director. Will joined the Workshop in the summer of 2009 to inventory lands for the Hidden Gems Wilderness Proposal. Currently he works as an organizer and advocate for our efforts to designate additional wilderness and protect the Thompson Divide from gas development. Will also conducts outreach and advocacy for WW’s federal lands policy work, organizes our Naturalist Nights winter speaker series, runs our restoration program, and serves on the steering committee of the Roaring Fork Valley Future Forest Roundtable. Will grew up in the Roaring Fork Valley and has a masters in Geography and Environmental Studies examining the impact of climate change on alpine ecosystems. Pitkin County HCF 2018 Grant Application: Wilderness Workshop, Appendix B

Rebecca Mirsky, Development Director, joined Wilderness Workshop in the fall of 2015. Rebecca has a strong history of involvement in the nonprofit community. She recently served as the Development Manager at Aspen Film, which she joined in 2013 as the Education Coordinator, and then transitioned to Development Manager. Before moving to Colorado, she directed several New York City Contemporary Art galleries and founded her own, 33 Bond Gallery, in 2007. Rebecca received a Master’s at NYU for Arts Administration and a Bachelor’s of Science in Studio Art with a minor in Sociology from NYU. Rebecca spent 14 years in New York City working in what she describes as the “strange world of contemporary art.” When she turned 30 she saw the light and, seeking a healthier life closer to the land, moved to Aspen to embrace the outdoor lifestyle. She quickly developed a core group of friends to mentor her in backcountry ways. She continues to explore surrounding public lands by mountain bike, skis, hiking boots, and backpacking.

Alicia Zeringue, Community Organizer. Alicia joins WW from Aspen Community Foundation, where her work was focused on communications and fundraising to support the organization’s grantmaking and strategic initiatives. Prior to moving to the Roaring Fork Valley in 2014, she spent over a decade in Baltimore as a community organizer focusing on community and workforce development as well as housing issues in the city’s most challenged neighborhoods. Alicia has a Bachelor of Science in Political Science from Towson University and is a 2014 Aspen Institute Marano Fellow. She grew up in Wyoming and Montana, where she spent her childhood hiking, cross- country skiing, camping and fishing on public lands. After moving to Colorado, she added soaking in hot springs to her list of hobbies and continues to be amazed by the overwhelming beauty and recreational opportunities here.

Justin Patrick, Communications Manager. Justin joined Wilderness Workshop in the summer of 2015 after completing the Digital Media program at the Isaacson School for New Media in Aspen. Prior to that, he worked for a nonprofit in Boulder addressing water use and irrigation efficiency. Justin has been publishing professionally as a journalist and author since 2007, and his work has appeared in The Denver Post, The Aspen Times, Sopris Sun, and The Telluride Daily Planet, among others. His work can be found on his website, www.jp-writes.com. Justin was a 2014 Aspen Ideas Scholar at the Aspen Institute. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from Brown University. His hobbies include skiing, backcountry camping, and uninhibited frolicking.

Melanie Finan, Operations Manager. Melanie wears many different and funky hats for WW. She’s responsible for outreach to WW’s members, all visual communications for the organization, and office manager. She has a Bachelor of Science in Mass Communication from Miami University in Ohio and supplemented her degree with courses in Graphic Design at Pitkin County HCF 2018 Grant Application: Wilderness Workshop, Appendix B Colorado Mountain College. Her passion for the outdoors was her motivation for moving to Colorado in 2005, and she plans on staying for a while and growing roots.

Pitkin County HCF Grant Application: Wilderness Workshop, Appendix C

Pitkin County HCF Grant Application: Wilderness Workshop, Appendix D

Wilderness Workshop Major Contributors and Grantors (2016-2017)

2016 Contributors Peter Looram and Owen McHaney $44,800 Jill Soffer $27,347 Bren Simon $25,000 Charles Hopton $22,100 Pamela Maguire $18,400 David Bonderman and Laurie Michaels $15,000 Jim Bonesteel and Caroline Cochener $15,000 Aron Ralston $13,000 Jimmy Ibbotson $10,000 Eaden and Deva Shantay $10,000 Martens Foundation $7,500 Peter and Robin Van Domelen $6,100 Marcie and Robert Musser $5,200 Tom and Currie Barron $5,000 Laurel and John Catto $5,000 Marcia Corbin $5,000 Sue Edelstein and Bill Spence $5,000 Janny Goss $5,000 Lucy Hahn $5,000 John and Laurie McBride $5,000 Mary Dominick-Coomer and Sven Coomer $4,648 Mark Harvey $4,000 Sally Sakin $4,000 Christin Cooper and Mark Tache $4,000 Annie Cooke $3,091 NRDC $3,000 Trinchera Blanca Foundation $3,000 Connie Harvey $3,000 Bill and Ellen Hunt $3,000 Larry Naughton and Gerri Karetsky $3,000 Carol Racine $3,000 Jeremy and Angela Foster $2,542 Bob Bowden $2,500 Curtis and Jill Kaufmann $2,500 Katie and Hank Van Schaack $2,500 Tania Amochaev $2,000 Chelsea Congdon and James Brundige $2,000 Beth Cashdan and Paul D'Amato $2,000 Anneliese Chumley $2,000 Laurence Cohen $2,000 Leslie Desmond $2,000 Pitkin County HCF Grant Application: Wilderness Workshop, Appendix D

Julie Goldstein and Tony O'Rourke $2,000 Henry and Angela Hite $2,000 Marianne and Dick Kipper $2,000 Susan O'Neal $2,000 Rob Pew and Susan Taylor $2,000 Karen Degerberg and Andy Sandler $2,000 Mike Stranahan $2,000 Elissa Topol and Lee Osterman $2,000 Sal Werner $2,000 Sheldon Wolitski $2,000 Kate Hudson $1,770 Ellen and Bill Hunt $1,500 Michael McVoy and Michal Brimm $1,500 Sara Ransford $1,500 Bill and Barbara Stirling $1,250 Junee Kirk $1,100 Lynn Nichols and Jim Gilchrist $1,100 Ted Zukoski $1,100 Connor Bailey $1,000 Shelley Burke and Al Nemoff $1,000 Marj Perry and Bill Fales $1,000 Beth Fergus $1,000 Sarah Flug $1,000 Kristen and Wally Graham $1,000 Hal Harvey $1,000 Henry and Nancy Lowe $1,000 Mike and Valerie Miller $1,000 David Newberger $1,000 Meredith and Chuck Ogilby $1,000 Wendy and Hank Paulson $1,000 James and Hensley Peterson $1,000 Ford and Susan Schumann $1,000 Nancy Wall and Charles Wall $1,000 Carolyn Workman $1,000 Andrew DePaul $750 Juliane Heyman $600 Megan Bourke $530 Karen Jenneman $510 Randy and Althy Brimm $500 Audrey Sattler and Don Fleisher $500 Gina Berko and David Fleisher $500 Cici Fox $500 Jane and Dick Hart $500 Allyn Harvey $500 Pitkin County HCF Grant Application: Wilderness Workshop, Appendix D

Teri Havens $500 Kristen Henry $500 Stephen and Karen Hessl $500 Charles and Linda Ho $500 Tim and Marcee Hobbs $500 Ann Johnson $500 Justice Snow’s Restaurant $500 Paul MacCaskill $500 Martha and Mike McCoy $500 Judy Fox-Perry and Will Perry $500 Frank Peters and Marjory Musgrave $500 Greg and Maureen Poschman and Family $500 Barbara Reese $500 Mary and Patrick Scanlan $500 Gail and Alan Schwartz $500 Terri Slivka $500 Ron Thompson $500 Drs. Richard Voorhees and Alice Bedard-Voorhees $500 Jay and Patti Webster $500 Zac Weinberg $500

2016 Grantors Aspen Skiing Company Environment Foundation $25,000 New-Land Foundation $20,000 Pitkin County $16,000 JM Kaplan Fund $10,000 Pew Charitable Trusts $7,500 Embrey Family Foundation $7,000 Patagonia $7,000 Thrift Shop of Aspen $6,500 Catto Shaw Charitable Foundation $5,000 Laffey-McHugh Foundation $5,000 City of Aspen $4,800 Maki Foundation $4,000 Fred and Elli Iselin Foundation $2,500 Town of Carbondale $2,185

2017 Contributors Charles Wall $35,000 Charles Hopton $15,800 Adam and Melony Lewis $15,000 Eaden and Deva Shantay $10,000 Tom and Currie Barron $10,000 Sal Werner $10,000 Pitkin County HCF Grant Application: Wilderness Workshop, Appendix D

Leslie and Abigail Wexner $10,000 Bren Simon $10,000 Peter Looram and Owen McHaney $10,000 John and Laurie McBride $7,500 Jim Bonesteel and Caroline Cochener $5,000 Sue Edelstein and Bill Spence $5,000 Lucy Hahn $5,000 Ken and Emily Ransford $5,000 Cynthia Wayburn $3,800 Julie Goldstein and Tony O'Rourke $3,000 Kristen and Wally Graham $3,000 Randy Ware $3,000 Susan O'Neal $2,800 Mary Dominick-Coomer and Sven Coomer $2,750 Aron Ralston $2,500 Marcie and Robert Musser $2,500 Mark Harvey $2,500 Ruthie Brown $2,500 Gayle Embrey $2,250 Ann Harvey and Mike Campbell $2,100 Andy Wiessner and Patsy Batchelder $2,100 Anonymous $2,100 Anonymous $2,000 Felicity Huffman and Bill Macy $2,000 Henry and Angela Hite $1,750 Mike Stranahan $1,450 Marcella Larsen $1,000 Sally Ranney $1,000 Polly and Jim Shoemaker $1,000 Laurel and John Catto $1,000 Chelsea Congdon and James Brundige $1,000 Reese Henry & Co. $615 Jay and Patti Webster $600 Allyn Harvey $550 Andrea Korber $525 Beth Cashdan and Paul D'Amato $500 Marianne and Dick Kipper $500 Greg and Maureen Poschman and Family $500 Pat Spitzmiller $500 Rob Benedetti and Maria Yurasek $500 Roberta Cunningham $500 Darlynn and Tom Fellman $500 Christine Karnes $500 Mary McNamara $500 Pitkin County HCF Grant Application: Wilderness Workshop, Appendix D

Frosty and Carly Merriott $500 Rita Soffer $500

2017 Grantors Pitkin County $16,000 Pew Charitable Trusts $15,030 City of Aspen $5,000 Laffey-McHugh Foundation $5,000 National Forest Foundation $4,999 Town of Carbondale $1,960

Wilderness Workshop Balance Sheet As of December 31, 2015 Dec 31, 15

ASSETS Current Assets Checking/Savings Checking-Alpine Bank 26,901.79 Endowment-Alpine 48,700.78 Hidden Gems Operating Acct. 4,983.99 Money Market- Alpine 432,794.64 Total Checking/Savings 513,381.20 Accounts Receivable 1,259.00 Other Current Assets Accounts Receivable 32,805.00 Total Other Current Assets 32,805.00 Total Current Assets 547,445.20 Fixed Assets Accumulated Depreciation -22,078.00 Equipment 13,482.35 Leasehold Improvements 49,523.35 Total Fixed Assets 40,927.70 Other Assets Security Deposit 3,592.00 Total Other Assets 3,592.00 TOTAL ASSETS 591,964.90 LIABILITIES & EQUITY Liabilities Current Liabilities Accounts Payable Accounts Payable 15,580.30 Total Accounts Payable 15,580.30 Other Current Liabilities Deferred Revenue 515.00 Account Payable 1,651.25 Direct Deposit Liabilities -0.01 Payroll Liabilities 16,064.18 Total Other Current Liabilities 18,230.42 Total Current Liabilities 33,810.72 Total Liabilities 33,810.72 Equity Endowment Fund 40,450.00 Retained Earnings 461,574.96 Temporarily Restricted Funds 16,538.65 Net Income 39,590.57 Total Equity 558,154.18 TOTAL LIABILITIES & EQUITY 591,964.90

Page 1 of 3 Wilderness Workshop Profit & Loss January through December 2015 Jan - Dec 15

Ordinary Income/Expense Income Individual Donations 361,665.61 Board Donations 105,350.00 Corporate Donations 5,251.88 Artist in Wilderness 1,938.25 Grants 36,000.00 Wilderness Campaign 7,510.00 Earned Income 17,415.00 Events WildFest Income 18,367.19 WildFest Expense -51,757.45 Events - Other 5,640.00 Total Events -27,750.26 Grants-Temp.Restricted 9,000.00 Wilderness Monitoring 19,000.00 Interest Income 412.38 Total Income 535,792.86 Expense Administrative Accounting Fees 15,480.00 Bank Charges 2,741.25 Board Expense 200.00 Liability Insurance 3,304.80 Meals & Travel 2,159.20 Office Expense 10,452.21 Professional Development 820.40 Professional Fees 662.50 Rent & Utilities 24,978.24 Technology Expense 937.43 Telephone/Internet 1,565.85 Total Administrative 63,301.88 Fundraising Events 9,414.42 Mailings 5,563.95 Travel & Meals (FR) 2,985.14 Total Fundraising 17,963.51 Payroll Wages 271,431.04 Payroll Taxes 24,221.84 Employee Benefit 25,038.85 IRA Contribution 5,748.02 Bonus 9,745.53 Workers' Comp 1,056.00 Payroll - Other 219.55

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Total Payroll 337,460.83 Program Expenses Conservation & Advocacy Oil & Gas Defense Expense 3,207.25 Thompson Divide 1,166.96 Travel (C&A) 893.98 Wilderness Campaign Exp. 13,317.59 Wilderness Monitoring Expense 3,153.50 Conservation & Advocacy - Other 4,595.45 Total Conservation & Advocacy 26,334.73 Outreach & Education Advertising 16,412.56 Artist in Wilderness Exp. 16,408.96 Constituent Relationship Mgmt. 4,350.00 Events Expense 515.00 Naturalist Nights Expense 5,354.18 Newsletter 10,784.09 Web Services 143.84 Total Outreach & Education 53,968.63 Total Program Expenses 80,303.36 Total Expense 499,029.58 Net Ordinary Income 36,763.28 Other Income/Expense Other Income Oil & Gas Defense 2,827.29 Total Other Income 2,827.29 Net Other Income 2,827.29 Net Income 39,590.57

Page 3 of 3 Wilderness Workshop Balance Sheet Prev Year Comparison As of December 31, 2016

Dec 31, 2016 Dec 31, 2016 $ Change ASSETS Current Assets Checking/Savings Checking-Alpine Bank 36,719.23 27,136.54 9,582.69 Endowment-Alpine 48,705.66 48,700.78 4.88 Hidden Gems Operating Acct. 4,984.01 4,983.99 0.02 Money Market- Alpine 802,508.45 432,794.64 369,713.81 Total Checking/Savings 892,917.35 513,615.95 379,301.40 Other Current Assets Accounts Receivable 32,100.00 34,064.00 (1,964.00) Total Other Current Assets 32,100.00 34,064.00 (1,964.00) Total Current Assets 925,017.35 547,679.95 377,337.40 Fixed Assets Accumulated Depreciation (22,078.00) (22,078.00) - Equipment 17,071.68 13,482.35 3,589.33 Leasehold Improvements 49,523.35 49,523.35 - Total Fixed Assets 44,517.03 40,927.70 3,589.33 Other Assets Security Deposit 3,592.00 3,592.00 - Total Other Assets 3,592.00 3,592.00 - TOTAL ASSETS 973,126.38 592,199.65 380,926.73 LIABILITIES & EQUITY Liabilities Current Liabilities Accounts Payable Accounts Payable 5,413.12 14,677.80 (9,264.68) Total Accounts Payable 5,413.12 14,677.80 (9,264.68) Other Current Liabilities Deferred Revenue - 515.00 Accounts Payable - 1,651.25 Direct Deposit Liabilities (2,920.78) (0.01) (2,920.77) Payroll Liabilities 18,868.50 16,064.18 2,804.32 Total Other Current Liabilities 15,947.72 18,230.42 (2,282.70) Total Current Liabilities 21,360.84 32,908.22 (11,547.38) Total Liabilities 21,360.84 32,908.22 (11,547.38) Equity Endowment Fund 40,450.00 40,450.00 - Retained Earnings 502,302.78 461,060.96 41,241.82 Temporarily Restricted Funds 16,538.65 16,778.65 (240.00) Net Income 392,474.11 41,241.82 351,232.29 Total Equity 951,765.54 559,531.43 392,234.11 TOTAL LIABILITIES & EQUITY 973,126.38 592,439.65 380,686.73

Page 1 of 3 Wilderness Workshop Profit & Loss Budget Performance January through December 2016

Jan - Dec 16 Jan - Dec 15 2016 Annual % of Annual Actuals Actuals Budget Budget Ordinary Income/Expense Income 4000 · Donations From Individuals 4020 · Board Donations 129,243.00 105,350.00 102,850.00 125.66% 4080 · Private Foundations 120,272.40 - 12,000.00 1,002.27% 4100 · Individual Donations 654,854.31 361,665.61 369,142.00 177.4% 4000 · Total Donations From Individuals 904,369.71 467,015.61 483,992.00

4010 · Artist in Wilderness 2,020.00 1,938.25 2,000.00 101.0% 4030 · Corporate Sponsorship 10,641.00 5,251.88 5,002.00 212.74% 4040 · Earned Income - 17,415.00 - 0.0% 4050 · Events - Fundraising 31,535.00 - 15,000.00 210.23% 4060 · Events - Other - 5,640.00 4090 · Wildfest 4070 · Wildfest Income 20,385.86 18,367.19 15,000.00 6230 · Events - WildFest Expense (52,291.49) (54,584.74) - 100.0% 4090 · Wildfest - Other 36,000.00 - 4090 · Total Wildfest (31,905.63) (217.55) 15,000.00 -212.7%

4095 · Grants-Temp.Restricted - 9,000.00 - 0.0% 4105 · Grants 112,985.00 - - 100.0% 4110 · Interest Income 358.44 412.38 187.00 191.68% 4130 · Wilderness Campaign 15,030.00 7,510.00 15,000.00 100.2% 4140 · Wilderness Monitoring 19,000.00 19,000.00 19,000.00 100.0% Total Income 1,064,033.52 532,965.57 555,181.00 191.66% Expense 6000 · Administrative 6010 · Accounting Fees 14,013.00 15,480.00 15,000.00 93.42% 6020 · Bank Charges 2,155.45 2,741.25 2,700.00 79.83% 6030 · Board Expense 359.12 200.00 500.00 71.82% 6040 · Constituent Relationship Mgmt. 4,371.11 5,035.88 4,350.00 100.49% 6050 · Liability Insurance 2,329.00 3,304.80 3,500.00 66.54% 6060 · Meals & Travel - General 2,490.96 1,043.82 600.00 415.16% 6070 · Office Expense 14,510.22 7,225.23 18,000.00 80.61% 6080 · Professional Development 2,459.82 1,352.34 3,000.00 81.99% 6090 · Professional Fees 365.00 662.50 - 100.0% 6100 · Rent 24,378.24 24,978.24 25,000.00 97.51% 6110 · Technology Expense 2,953.33 1,641.33 4,400.00 67.12% 6120 · Telephone/Internet 1,560.00 1,565.85 1,700.00 91.77% 6130 · Web Services 991.84 227.40 5,000.00 19.84% Total 6000 · Administrative 72,937.09 65,458.64 83,750.00 87.09% 6200 · Fundraising 6210 · Events - Fundraising Expense 12,808.48 7,291.38 6,000.00 213.48% 6220 · Events - Other 588.93 - - 100.0% 6240 · Mailings 2,339.69 7,138.55 5,000.00 46.79% 6250 · Research 4,581.00 - - 100.0% 6260 · Travel & Meals (FR) 546.28 2,046.84 1,500.00 36.42% Total 6200 · Fundraising 20,864.38 16,476.77 12,500.00 166.92% 6300 · Payroll 6300 · Payroll - Other 349.25 219.55 250.00 139.7% 6310 · Bonus 8,662.69 9,745.53 10,000.00 86.63% 6320 · Employee Benefit 36,442.50 25,038.85 36,000.00 101.23%

Page 2 of 3 Wilderness Workshop Profit & Loss Budget Performance January through December 2016

Jan - Dec 16 Jan - Dec 15 2016 Annual % of Annual Actuals Actuals Budget Budget 6340 · IRA Contribution 7,592.31 5,748.02 6,500.00 116.81% 6360 · Payroll Taxes 35,349.87 24,221.84 29,000.00 121.9% 6370 · Wages 408,234.77 271,431.04 375,600.00 108.69% 6380 · Workers' Comp 476.00 1,056.00 1,231.00 38.67% Total 6300 · Payroll 497,107.39 337,460.83 458,581.00 108.4% 6400 · Program Expenses 6405 · Conservation & Advocacy 6405 · Conservation & Advocacy - Other 7,211.06 4,924.49 5,000.00 144.22% 6410 · Oil & Gas Defense Expense 1,994.59 3,207.25 3,200.00 62.33% 6420 · Other 480.00 - - 100.0% 6430 · Restoration 1,577.41 - - 100.0% 6440 · Thompson Divide 64.80 1,166.96 2,000.00 3.24% 6450 · Travel (C&A) 3,681.18 2,696.00 2,500.00 147.25% 6460 · Wilderness Campaign Exp. 14,095.53 13,317.59 14,000.00 100.68% 6470 · Wilderness Monitoring Expense 10,417.53 3,153.50 5,000.00 208.35% Total 6405 · Conservation & Advocacy 39,522.10 28,465.79 31,700.00 124.68% 6505 · Outreach & Education 6510 · Advertising/Promotion - General 6,488.91 14,865.80 3,000.00 216.3% 6520 · Artist in Wilderness Exp. 9,293.71 16,424.74 7,000.00 132.77% 6530 · Hike Series 621.10 - - 100.0% 6540 · Naturalist Nights 12,054.43 5,354.18 6,000.00 200.91% 6560 · Outreach Events 2,149.33 - - 100.0% 6570 · Social Media 622.36 - - 100.0% 6550 · Newsletter 9,898.61 10,044.29 12,000.00 82.49% Total 6505 · Outreach & Education 41,128.45 46,689.01 28,000.00 146.89% Total 6400 · Program Expenses 80,650.55 75,154.80 59,700.00 135.09% Total Expense 671,559.41 494,551.04 614,531.00 109.28%

NET INCOME 392,474.11 38,414.53 (59,350.00) -13.17%

Page 3 of 3 Wilderness Workshop Balance Sheet Prev Year Comparison As of April 30, 2017

April 30, 2017 April 30, 2016 $ Change ASSETS Current Assets Checking/Savings Checking-Alpine Bank 26,446.24 16,697.64 9,748.60 Endowment-Alpine 48,707.26 48,702.41 4.85 Hidden Gems Operating Acct. - 4,983.99 (4,983.99) Money Market- Alpine 763,573.78 340,447.38 423,126.40 Total Checking/Savings 838,727.28 410,831.42 427,895.86 Other Current Assets Accounts Receivable 2,100.00 11,600.00 (9,500.00) Total Other Current Assets 2,100.00 11,600.00 (9,500.00) Total Current Assets 840,827.28 422,431.42 418,395.86 Fixed Assets Accumulated Depreciation (22,078.00) (22,078.00) - Equipment 17,071.68 13,482.35 3,589.33 Leasehold Improvements 49,523.35 49,523.35 - Total Fixed Assets 44,517.03 40,927.70 3,589.33 Other Assets Security Deposit 3,592.00 3,592.00 - Total Other Assets 3,592.00 3,592.00 - TOTAL ASSETS 888,936.31 466,951.12 421,985.19 LIABILITIES & EQUITY Liabilities Current Liabilities Accounts Payable Accounts Payable 6,174.06 1,555.00 4,619.06 Total Accounts Payable 6,174.06 1,555.00 4,619.06 Other Current Liabilities Direct Deposit Liabilities (2,920.78) (0.01) (2,920.77) Payroll Liabilities 2,885.75 7,903.28 (5,017.53) Total Other Current Liabilities (35.03) 7,903.27 (7,938.30) Total Current Liabilities 6,139.03 9,458.27 (3,319.24) Total Liabilities 6,139.03 9,458.27 (3,319.24) Equity Endowment Fund 40,450.00 40,450.00 - Retained Earnings 894,325.64 502,167.78 392,157.86 Temporarily Restricted Funds 16,538.65 16,538.65 - Net Income (68,517.01) (101,663.58) 33,146.57 Total Equity 882,797.28 457,492.85 425,304.43 TOTAL LIABILITIES & EQUITY 888,936.31 466,951.12 421,985.19

Page 1 of 3 Wilderness Workshop Profit & Loss Budget Performance January - April 2017

Jan-Apr 17 Jan-Apr 16 2017 Annual % of Annual Actuals Actuals Budget Budget Ordinary Income/Expense Income 4000 · Donations From Individuals 4020 · Board Donations - 13,000.00 129,243.00 0.0% 4080 · Private Foundations - 13,372.40 - 0.0% 4100 · Individual Donations 97,060.59 8,799.63 302,626.00 32.07% 4000 · Total Donations From Individuals 97,060.59 35,172.03 431,869.00

4010 · Artist in Wilderness 2,332.06 1,512.06 2,000.00 116.6% 4030 · Corporate Sponsorship - 5,350.00 10,641.00 0.0% 4050 · Events - Fundraising 5,385.00 29,600.00 75,000.00 7.18% 4060 · Events - Other - - 4090 · Wildfest 4070 · Wildfest Income 1,396.00 - - 6230 · Events - WildFest Expense (10,000.00) (462.50) - 100.0% 4090 · Total Wildfest (8,604.00) (462.50) - 100.0%

4105 · Grants 27,960.00 30,485.00 112,985.00 24.75% 4110 · Interest Income 358.43 198.68 700.00 51.2% 4130 · Wilderness Campaign 7,500.00 - 15,030.00 49.9% 4140 · Wilderness Monitoring - - 19,000.00 0.0% Total Income 131,992.08 101,855.27 667,225.00 19.78% Expense 6000 · Administrative 6010 · Accounting Fees 1,216.25 2,900.00 14,000.00 8.69% 6020 · Bank Charges 419.34 265.14 2,200.00 19.06% 6030 · Board Expense 50.00 56.62 500.00 10.0% 6040 · Constituent Relationship Mgmt. 1,200.00 900.00 4,500.00 26.67% 6050 · Liability Insurance - - 2,500.00 0.0% 6060 · Meals & Travel - General 913.56 1,170.63 600.00 152.26% 6070 · Office Expense 3,012.00 3,800.77 15,000.00 20.08% 6080 · Professional Development - 1,551.11 3,000.00 0.0% 6090 · Professional Fees 325.00 - 400.00 81.25% 6100 · Rent 8,468.16 7,726.08 25,000.00 33.87% 6110 · Technology Expense 885.03 1,095.65 4,400.00 20.11% 6120 · Telephone/Internet 521.95 650.00 1,700.00 30.7% 6130 · Web Services 940.00 90.00 - 100.0% Total 6000 · Administrative 17,951.29 20,206.00 73,800.00 24.32% 6200 · Fundraising 6210 · Events - Fundraising Expense 721.31 4,079.74 13,500.00 5.34% 6240 · Mailings 500.31 43.90 2,500.00 20.01% 6250 · Research - 4,500.00 4,500.00 0.0% 6260 · Travel & Meals (FR) 56.83 142.29 500.00 11.37% Total 6200 · Fundraising 1,278.45 8,765.93 21,000.00 6.09% 6300 · Payroll 6300 · Payroll - Other 107.75 94.50 250.00 43.1% 6310 · Bonus - 8,662.69 10,000.00 0.0% 6320 · Employee Benefit 12,442.50 12,000.00 36,000.00 34.56% 6340 · IRA Contribution 2,533.28 2,499.90 8,000.00 31.67%

Page 2 of 3 Wilderness Workshop Profit & Loss Budget Performance January - April 2017

Jan-Apr 17 Jan-Apr 16 2017 Annual % of Annual Actuals Actuals Budget Budget 6360 · Payroll Taxes 11,396.76 10,922.87 36,000.00 31.66% 6370 · Wages 136,295.98 122,120.03 473,000.00 28.82% 6380 · Workers' Comp 287.00 (37.00) 500.00 57.4% Total 6300 · Payroll 163,063.27 156,262.99 563,750.00 28.93% 6400 · Program Expenses 6405 · Conservation & Advocacy 6405 · Forest Defense 353.00 - 15,000.00 2.35% 6410 · Oil & Gas Defense Expense 656.00 1,082.52 3,200.00 20.5% 6420 · Other 5,439.90 5.00 5,000.00 108.8% 6430 · Restoration 629.31 - - 100.0% 6440 · Thompson Divide 76.80 - - 100.0% 6450 · Travel (C&A) 1,061.34 787.70 2,500.00 42.45% 6460 · Wilderness Campaign Exp. 3,840.07 4,000.00 14,000.00 27.43% 6470 · Wilderness Monitoring Expense 115.31 12.00 11,000.00 1.05% Total 6405 · Conservation & Advocacy 12,171.73 5,887.22 50,700.00 24.01% 6505 · Outreach & Education 6510 · Advertising/Promotion - General 300.00 3,293.28 8,000.00 3.75% 6520 · Artist in Wilderness Exp. 3,753.70 2,784.00 9,000.00 41.71% 6530 · Hike Series - - - 0.0% 6540 · Naturalist Nights 797.63 6,319.43 12,000.00 6.65% 6560 · Outreach Events 1,152.78 - 2,000.00 57.64% 6570 · Social Media 40.24 - - 100.0% 6550 · Newsletter - - 10,000.00 0.0% Total 6505 · Outreach & Education 6,044.35 12,396.71 41,000.00 14.74% Total 6400 · Program Expenses 18,216.08 18,283.93 91,700.00 19.87% Total Expense 200,509.09 203,518.85 750,250.00 26.73%

NET INCOME (68,517.01) (101,663.58) (83,025.00) 34.85%

Page 3 of 3 Pitkin County HCF Grant Application: Wilderness Workshop, Appendix D

Appendix for Question 3

3. What Programs or services will this money support (who, when, where, and how?)

This grant request is to support two service delivery goals. This section describes the strategy that we'll be employing and tasks that need to be done in the coming year to make progress on those multi-year goals.

1. Collect baseline data to provide an early-warning system of adverse impacts to the environment and population of Pitkin County and the wider region.

Since 1984, the WW has worked with the Forest Service’s Aspen-Sopris Ranger District in a unique partnership: the Wilderness Monitoring Program. The program now includes three components, monitoring of the air and water quality as well as the invasion of noxious and non- native weeds in wilderness areas of Pitkin County.

• Air quality monitoring - The -Snowmass Wilderness is defined a “Class 1 Airshed” under the Clean Air Act. Because of this, the air above the residents and landscape of Aspen and Pitkin County is afforded the best protections under federal law, tolerating minimal degradations to its pristine quality. Therefore, we have a powerful lever for challenging any upwind development (notably oil & gas development) that stands to degrade our air quality. But to be effective, we must maintain a consistent, scientifically valid record of air quality readings over time. Without baseline data, polluters can argue that complaints against them have no scientific basis. Every Tuesday, 52 weeks a year, WW staff collect filters from the IMPROVE (Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environments) monitoring station atop Aspen Mountain and ship them to the Crocker Nuclear Lab at UC Davis for processing and analysis. These collections must be done without fail, following strict scientific protocols. WW staff also provide primary maintenance for the Aspen Mountain site year-round.

The WRNF has another air monitoring station atop Sunlight Peak, just north of . This station is part of the National Atmospheric Deposition Program (NADP) and, like the IMPROVE site, data must be collected every Tuesday without fail year round. Last year the WRNF expanded its contract with WW to include collecting the NADP data during the non-snow months because WW is able to provide the service more cost effectively and reliably that the Forest Service (due to their budget and resulting personnel cuts).

• Water monitoring - The WW/Forest Service surface water monitoring program began here in 1991, providing long-term research and monitoring of five sensitive indicator lakes in the Maroon Bells-Snowmass and Collegiate Peaks wilderness areas. The monitoring has a direct relationship to the health of our ecosystem in the Roaring Fork Watershed and its residents. In perhaps one of WW's most enviable assignments, wilderness monitor Tulley Mackay hikes to Avalanche, Capital, Moon, Brooklyn and Tabor Lakes three times per summer to collect samples. These samples are kept on ice and shipped to a lab in Fort Collins for analysis. Long-term monitoring of lake chemistry establishes baseline data to show changes in surface water acid neutralizing capacity, pH, and the presence of sulfate, nitrate, cadmium, and other metals. Increased acidification may result from the introduction of acid-forming chemicals from upwind sources of air pollution. Pitkin County HCF Grant Application: Wilderness Workshop, Appendix D

Wilderness Workshop lake sampling work has been so professional and cost effective that the White River National Forest asked us to expand our lake sampling program across the Forest, assuming duties previously performed by staff from other Ranger Districts and the US Geological Survey. Starting in the summer of 2016, WW began collecting water samples from 11 additional lakes on the WRNF – 5 in the Flat Tops, 5 in the Holy Cross and 1 in the Eagles Nest Wilderness Areas.

• Invasive weed monitoring - Noxious weeds are considered a serious ecological problem by Pitkin County, and land managers everywhere. WW’s monitoring of them in the high-elevation wilderness lands provides an important layer of research and spatial understanding to Pitkin County and its efforts to better control these invasives. Our wilderness monitor records the weed type, location, size and intensity of infestations in the Maroon Bells, Collegiate Peaks, and Hunter-Fryingpan wilderness areas. He inventories a half dozen or so trails each summer, plotting them on GIS mapping applications and then providing the data to the Forest Service so eradication crews can be dispatched before the weeds become more difficult to control.

• Monitoring of Wilderness Overuse Management – The Aspen-Sopris Ranger District of the White River National Forest recently finalized a decision to implement management strategies designed to address impacts from overuse of popular destinations in the Maroon Bells-Snowmas Wilderness Area. Destinations like Conundrum Hot Springs are experiencing an explosion in visitation which is causing significant damage to the wilderness. In 2018, the Aspen-Sopris Ranger District (ASRD) will begin implementing new overnight use restrictions that will hopefully improve the situation and alleviate the impacts to the wilderness. Wilderness Workshop will be partnering with the ASRD to develop and implement a monitoring program designed to gauge how effective the new management approaches are. We’ll spend the remainder of 2017 and portions of 2018 designing the monitoring plan and begin monitoring activities in late summer of 2018 after the ASRD has begun implementing the new management actions.

2. Minimize the impacts of oil & gas development to Pitkin County and the region*

While we aren’t categorically opposed to natural gas drilling, we think it doesn’t belong everywhere and, where it’s done, it must be done right. The goals of our Oil & Gas Defense Program are to keep drilling out of sensitive and roadless public lands (principally in the Thompson Divide); and, to the extent that drilling does occur (e.g., in the Valley), to improve environmental protections to minimize impacts on the environment and human health. This results not only in less and more environmentally sensitive development where it's happening, but also in reduced off-site impacts such as air pollution and economic harm for all the communities of Pitkin County.

Led by WW staff attorney Peter Hart, the program works closely with the Thompson Divide Coalition and Pitkin County, and where our efforts overlap – in the Thompson Divide – they’re well-coordinated and non-duplicative. WW will focus on the following main objectives in 2017. (Please note that this is sensitive strategic information and we ask you to keep it in confidence.)

• Minimize further oil and gas development on ecologically important public lands. We are surrounded by millions of acres of remarkable public lands that are managed by the Pitkin County HCF Grant Application: Wilderness Workshop, Appendix D

Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service. Much of this acreage overlaps with the natural gas-rich Piceance Basin. WW works hard to monitor and pushback on new oil and gas lease sales and proposed development in these areas. We can’t push back on every proposal, so we screen projects and prioritize protection of the most ecologically important lands that are at risk of development. These lands include roadless areas, important habitat for wildlife, and potential wilderness areas. Increasingly, too, we are pushing federal land managers to take a hard look at the impacts to climate that new proposed oil and gas leasing and development will have. Assessing climate impacts is so important in area’s like ours—where winter snowpack is critical to the environment and economy.

We engage in this work by filing technical comments on proposed gas development projects, educating the public and generating public comments, and working with agency officials to help them understand our concerns on specific project proposals. Sometimes, when projects pose serious threats to important public lands and agency officials move forward nonetheless, we may file administrative protests or appeals (again, these are short of formal litigation or lawsuits). Our goal is always to ensure that important resources on our cherished public lands get the protections that they warrant.

• Oppose Thompson Divide drilling plans. While the Thompson Divide Coalition’s primary strategy has been to negotiate with leasholders and secure Congressional withdrawal legislation, WW’s strategy all along has been trench warfare, challenging all agency actions and processes that would otherwise pave the way for development. For example, we are actively opposing plans by SG Interests and Gunnison Energy to drill on Thompson Divide leases in the far southern portions of the Thompson Divide. We continue to monitor SG’s plans to drill in the Wolf Creek Storage Field on leases that haven’t been cancelled. We are also engaged in ongoing administrative appeals related to expired leases in the western portions of the Divide—at the headwaters of West Divide Creek.

* We want to reassure you that we are not asking HCF to fund any work involving actual litigation or lawsuits. Our Oil & Gas Defense Program does employ what's known as administrative law, but that is the practice of using administrative procedures to get federal agencies to follow their own rules and regulations.

Pitkin County HCF Grant Application: Wilderness Workshop, Supplementary Budget

SUPPLEMENTARY BUDGET INFORMATION

While the grant application form asks for our organizational budget, it doesn’t ask for a specific project budget, nor for any explanation as to how we arrived at the amount of our request.

Therefore, we thought it would be useful for you to see a budget breakout for the service delivery goals stated in our application.

We are requesting a grant from Pitkin County HCF of $20,000 toward the total program costs of $173,647.

Wilderness Monitoring Program

Staff time (salary) Tulley Mackey, Wilderness Monitor, 0.3 FTE $34,000 Hard costs Travel $2,000 Total $36,000

Oil & Gas Defense Program

Staff time (salary & benefits) Staff attorney (0.9 FTE) $80,028.00 Grassroots organizing (conservation director, 0.2 FTE) $14,742.00 Management oversight (executive director, 0.1 FTE) $9,711.00 Communications (comms director, 0.3 FTE) $23,166.00

Contractors & hard costs Outside legal counsel $1,000.00 Travel $4,000.00 LexisNexis $2,000.00 6 overflights for media, local elected officials - EcoFlight $3,000.00 Advertising $0.00 Printing $0.00

Total $137,647.00

TOTAL BUDGET $173,647