Brent Gardner-Smith/Aspen Journalism

protecting wild places and wildlife, for their sake – and ours Summer 2018

A beaver pond on Maroon Creek, pictured above, could have been flooded by reservoirs as part of 1960’s-era water rights SUCCESS! for dams on Castle and Maroon Creeks. A recent agreement between WW and several WW signs agreement with Aspen to relocate water rights other groups with the City ensures that this special place will not be dammed. for dams out of Castle and Maroon Creeks

t the end of May, we signed a set of stipulations with the City of Aspen that commits In this issue A the City to moving its water rights for reservoirs out of Castle and Maroon Creeks. The agreement ensures those two streams will remain un-dammed and free flowing hopefully A Fond Farewell 2 forever! This major success comes after two years of citizen pressure, legal work and col- laboration with the City. Crystal Trail 4 New Wilderness 6 How the story unfolded Defiende 8 When the City of Aspen moved to renew conditional water rights for reservoirs on Castle Hike Series 10 and Maroon Creeks in 2016, Wilderness Workshop raised questions about the wisdom and utility of keeping those proposed dams on the books. Our main concerns centered on the Summer Schedule 11 ecological impacts of potential dams, including significantly altering the stream ecology Berlaimont 12 and riparian habitat, flooding designated wilderness, and industrializing two ecologically im- Logging 13 portant and beloved valleys. While climate change and a growing population certainly pose National Monuments 14 significant challenges to the City’s water supply, our take is that there must be better options. With that in mind we joined nine other parties, including our partners at Western Oil and Gas Update 15 Resource Advocates (WRA), American Rivers, and Trout Unlimited, to object to the City’s Donor Hall of Fame 16 diligence filing in water court. As part of this process, we entered into a settlement period designed to encourage us to reach a fair resolution without litigation. Given the City’s com- mitment to the environment, we felt confident we could reach a settlement without going to court. And after nearly 18 months of dialogue, legal analysis, and studies by the City, we did just that. In May, WW and WRA and the City of Aspen agreed to a set of stipulations that, once finalized, ensures the City will not build dams on Castle and Maroon Creeks! As we

CONTINUED ON page 3

summer schedule Pg. 11 JUNE 2012 | Wild Works 1 A Fond Farewell

It’s been a helluva run. In the 21 years I’ve been with this incredible organization, I fell in love, got married, started a family, got a mortgage, became bald and grey, all while building Aspen Wilderness Workshop from the all-volunteer organization it was to the professionally staffed Wilderness Workshop of today. Many ask, “what were your greatest accomplishments?” That’s hard to answer. The accomplishments aren’t mine to claim. WW is a team comprised of incredibly talented and dedicated staff, a bright and committed board, and you the community that’s taken the leap of faith giving us the moral, political, and financial support to work in your name. It sounds cliché but it’s true. I’ve only loosely held the wheel here, allowing the team’s values and instincts to guide them. And our accomplishments have been many, big and small, all of which add up to a keeping our air and water clean, and our landscapes wild and robust. When I took the reigns, the Aspen Wilderness Workshop’s membership was below 100 and declining, and the issues were getting too complex and rapid for an all-volunteer organization to effectively address. Our origin story is noble – passionate volunteers gathered around kitchen tables, mapping out ways to capitalize on the recently passed Wilderness Act to secure unprecedented protection for surrounding public lands. And they kicked ass - 500,000 acres were added to the National Wilderness Preservation System. But the work couldn’t stop there. Ecosystems extend beyond wilderness boundaries and, short of wilderness designation, conservation victories aren’t permanent. Historically a non-partisan issue, public lands have been sucked into our national partisan divide and are increasingly under threat. Growing population and resource consumption, compounded by the exploding popularity of public lands recreation, is multiplying pressure on the remaining wild spots on the map. Successful public lands conservation today requires broadly supported, technically impeccable, constantly applied pressure. With that in mind, I think the most significant, and hopefully most durable, accomplishment of my tenure has been to bring the Workshop out from around the kitchen tables and into the broader community. We’ve built WW into a professional, reliable, resourceful, effective, and accessible community institution ready to deploy a diverse toolbox of strategies to keep our precious public lands wild. I hope the solid and broad foundation we’ve built endows WW to give voice to the voiceless well into the future, as long as it’s needed. Wilderness Workshop’s Board of Directors hired our Conservation Director, Will Roush, to succeed me. I assure you that a national search couldn’t find someone more perfectly fit for this role. I am sticking around through the busy summer season to keep things on track and ensure a deliberate, thorough, and seamless transition. I officially step down in September but will continue with a couple of special projects and be ever available for consult. When I said “yes” to the job offer 21 years ago, I had no idea I was starting a career with such incredible organization and with what’s turned into an extension of my family. I’ve been deeply honored to do this work and by your partnership allowing us to make a difference for the wild things, human and not.

See you on the trail, Sloan

2 Wild Works | JUNE 2012 2 Wild Works | Summer 2018 Summer 2018 | Wild Works 3 John Fielder success! FROM page 1

go to print, our partners American rights for reservoirs on Castle Rivers and Trout Unlimited are still and Maroon Creeks regardless of working out the final details of their whether they succeed in moving settlement, which we expect to be their water rights to other loca- finalized shortly. tions! The City deserves a lot of the Commits us to not opposing credit for finding a solution that both future diligence on these new creates options for future water sup- water rights for 20 years. plies and protects the health of criti- Becomes binding upon all par- cal riparian ecosystems on the door- ties once Aspen settles with the step of the -Snowmass other opposing parties. wilderness. City staff have become What the settlement does not partners in this work and, along prevent us from doing is influencing with the council, have demonstrated or opposing the actual planning and leadership and innovation on this construction of reservoirs. While the complex issue. As Councilwoman alternative storage sites are certainly This Spring, WW and partners announced an agreement with Ann Mullins remarked before voting less ecologically damaging than the City of Aspen that ensures the City will not build dams on Castle and Maroon Creeks. The meadow pictured here will to approve the settlement, “because reservoirs in the Castle and Maroon remain as it is! of the questions and persistence of Creek Valleys, they are unlikely to the community, we have actually be without impact. Were these sites outdated water storage projects. come up with a much better plan.” to be developed, we would treat is home to a number of them like any other major project decades-old dam proposals that are Details of the settlement and analyze their ecological impacts still on the books and could be built In simplest terms. the settlement and seek to minimize or prevent in other largely pristine mountain does the following: those impacts. valleys. Our work has shown that Commits the City to move its “Healthy rivers and wildlife, and shifting from water supply strate- water rights for reservoirs out of the recreation opportunities they gies of the past to more modern the two valleys. provide, are at the foundation of options like off-channel reservoirs Identifies the locations of Aspen’s economy and community is possible. This work is also a great potential new reservoir sites, all values,” said Executive Director example of how WW uses a mix of of which would be ‘off channel’ Sloan Shoemaker. “Many thanks to strategies to achieve conservation meaning no streams would be Mayor Skadron, City Council, and outcomes. While we started off in a dammed. The new locations City staff for their collaboration in somewhat oppositional stance with are a newly purchased parcel setting a better course for the future the City, a mix of research, collabo- in Woody Creek, the adjacent of the Roaring Fork Valley. While the ration, partnership and legal work gravel pit, portions of the Aspen Castle and Maroon Creek Reservoirs led us to a win-win solution. It also Golf course, and Cozy Point may have seemed like a good idea launched us on future work with the Ranch. in 1967, we congratulate the City for City to enhance stream health and Reduces the amount of water the this win-win alternative that protects develop additional options for their City can store from nearly 14,000 our iconic landscape and provides water supply (more on that in the acre-feet to 8,500 acre-feet. for the City’s water needs.” coming months!) Most importantly, the settlement We’re also hopeful that this commits the City to giving up the work may lead to the end of other

3 2 Wild Works | Summer 2018 SummerJUNE 20122018 | Wild Works 3 John Fielder CRYSTAL TRAIL DRAFT plan released Off to a good start, but changes needed

his spring, Pitkin County and wildlife, trails provide numerous from the highway (alignment B). T released a draft plan outlining benefits to our community and help These are the segments that have the the most concrete proposal to date develop an outdoor constituency potential to impact wildlife if they for a bike path up the Crystal Valley. to advocate for public lands. We bisect important or un-fragmented As a reminder, Pitkin County Open support the trail in concept but just wildlife habitat. Three of them would Space and Trails (OST) is the trail’s want to see it done right. While the run through subdivisions or the town chief proponent and successfully County has made a sincere effort to of Redstone, meaning the impact to advocated for its inclusion as one address impacts to wildlife along habitat has already occurred. The of Colorado the Beautiful’s “16 in some segments of the proposed trail four recommended segments with 2016” trail initiatives promoted by and included several new ecologi- the greatest potential habitat impacts Governor Hickenlooper. Designed cally beneficial projects in this draft, are Red Wind Point, the Narrows, for pedestrian, bicycle, and eques- the plan still contains several recom- Bear Creek, and McClure Pass. The trian use, the trail would extend the mended alignments that would problem with these segments is that existing path from the KOA through fragment largely undisturbed wildlife they would be built through areas Redstone to the top of McClure Pass. habitat and/or places that currently where no approved trail exists and/ Downstream of Redstone the trail have no approved trails. or current use is much less than it would be a Rio-Grande-style trail, would be were a new and popular either paved or dirt. From Redstone Trail Segments trail to be constructed. to McClure Pass, the trail would be There’s a lot to digest in the dirt single-track and would connect 271-page plan, but here’s the broad Additional ecological into existing or proposed single-track view: of the 21 trail segments, the benefits to . Though our core County chose six that would run An important part of the draft plan mission is to protect public lands close to highway 133 (alignment A), is a series of actions the County pro- with minimal impacts to ecosystems poses to improve the ecology of the or wildlife habitat (yay!). Crystal Valley. These include: weed OST deferred a decision management; prescribed fire; paying on an alignment for eight for better enforcement of existing segments largely due to and future seasonal closures; and private property issues, commitments to study ways to in- the location of adjoining crease the bighorn sheep population segments, and in the and improve riparian habitat. OST case of the Avalanche deserves credit for adding these ele- segment, to gather more ments to the plan and we’re excited information about poten- to partner with the County on the tial impacts to wildlife. latter of these. They won’t eliminate The draft plan rec- other possible impacts of the trail ommends that seven but they have the potential to bring segments be built away real ecological benefits to the Crystal

The County deserves full credit for routing the trail around Filoha Mead- ows. Our hope is that OST will adopt similar wildlife-friendly measure- ments throughout the plan.

4 Wild Works | SJUNEummer 2012 2018 Valley. One good example of this is staff have been very clear that the planning through the lower valley the declining bighorn sheep popula- final plan that goes to the County segment for 5-15 years), but the tion. While the main issue facing the Commissioners will reflect public earlier this plan can be shaped the sheep is disease transmission from comments. The more of us that better chance we have of ensuring the herds of domestic sheep in the request changes to minimize future the trail doesn’t negatively impact area, a new trail through some of impacts to wildlife habitat, the more the future survival of wildlife in the their important habitat and migration likely it is that the final plan will Crystal Valley. corridors would push them closer to be wildlife-friendly. The comment disappearing from the Valley. If the period is open through July 27; County and others are successful in please go to our website for details addressing the bigger issues facing (see lower right). Additionally, the the sheep, then the additional stress County Commissioners and Open from trail use could be less problem- Space and Trails Board will host a GET INVOLVED atic for the herd. public listening session on June 26 at 4 p.m. at the Third Street Center Submit your comments to OST: What can you do? in Carbondale. This meeting will be wildernessworkshop.org/crystal-trail The County’s draft plan addresses critical to shaping the future of the Attend a listening session with some (but not all) impacts to wildlife trail and the Crystal Valley. Pitkin County: and proposes some ecologically There’s a lot more to come Tuesday, June 26 | 4 p.m. beneficial new initiatives. However, before a final plan is approved and Third Street Center, Carbondale the plan could be substantially better any construction occurs (the draft and it depends largely on you. OST plan proposes putting off detailed

KEEPING THE PLAN WILDLIFE-FRIENDLY

Here are our suggestions to make the final plan wildlife-friendly: Keep the new ecological initiatives in the plan and maintain the recommended alignments that avoid critical wildlife habitat in Filoha Meadows and Janeway North. Ask the County to change the draft alignments of the Red Wind Point, Bear Creek and McClure Pass segments to Alignment A. This will move the trail out of wildlife habitat that is currently un-fragmented, sees relatively low amounts of human use and/or has no approved trails.1 Encourage the County to choose Alignment A for the Avalanche and Janeway South segments. No alignment was recommended in the draft plan for these segments but it’s critical that the final plan keeps the trail out of these large areas of important un-fragmented habitat with little current human use. As an example of why it’s so critical that the trail avoid places like Avalanche Creek, here’s the County’s own description of alignment B for this area. The trail would go through “a pristine meadow” and a “relatively undisturbed valley [that] was identified as a high-quality habitat area with diverse and high-quality upland vegetation communities; good habitat for bird and bat foraging; lynx, ungulate and bear corridors; and habitat for a couple of USFS sensitive species.”

1 The current recommended alignment for the Narrows segment would also put a trail where none exists presently, in both winter range and a bighorn sheep migration corridor, but these impacts can likely be mitigated through well-enforced seasonal closures. We’re also sympathetic to the fact that building a trail along the highway in this section would cost upwards of $10 million. It’s not an ideal place for a trail from a wildlife perspective but it’s likely one of the places it may make sense to place some human values over those of wildlife.

5 SummerJUNE 20122018 | Wild Works 5 NEW PUBLIC LANDS BILL HITS CONGRESS Multi-faceted Continental Divide legislation wins broad support

uring the Outdoor Retailer conservationists, and even industry by Colorado Parks and Wildlife and D trade show in this groups like Climax Mines, Excel the Forest Service to benefit wildlife. January, Representative Jared Polis Energy and Colorado Springs Utility. The Tenmile Recreation Manage- and Senator Michael Bennet an- It would protect a mix of iconic high ment Area would allow continued nounced House and Senate versions country and critical low elevation access for biking, hiking and of the Continental Divide Recre- wildlife habitat for people and horseback riding, but be closed to ation, Wilderness, and Camp Hale wildlife alike. industrial activities like logging, min- Legacy Act. The bill would protect The bill would protect: ing, and oil and gas development, as over 98,000 acres of public land in 41,229 acres of new wilderness well as new road building (although Summit and Eagle Counties! on the eastern half of the White a couple current jeep roads would Wilderness Workshop, as part of River National Forest. stay open). Lastly, Camp Hale and a broad coalition of organizations A 16,996-acre Recreation Man- portions of the lands used by the and citizens, has been working for agement Area to ensure contin- 10th Mountain Division to train for over a decade to achieve congres- ued mountain biking, hiking, and mountain warfare in WWII would sional protection for areas in the bill. increase land protections in the become the first National Historic This is the first time we’ve achieved Tenmile Mountain Range outside Landscape. introduction in both Houses of of Breckenridge. The involvement of so many Congress and the bill enjoys un- Two Wildlife Conservation Areas stakeholders and community precedented support from mountain totaling 11,668 acres to protect members in crafting the boundaries bikers, county commissioners, local critical wildlife linkages near and language in the bill has resulted business owners, hunters, veterans, Loveland Pass and in the Wil- in a diverse set of supporters of the liams Fork Mountains. bill. Ernest Saeger of the Vail Valley Our country’s first National Mountain Bike Association lauded Historic Landscape to protect the collaborative process. 28,728 acres of public lands “We believe this is the best way around Camp Hale, home of the to create this type of bill,” he said. WWII-era training grounds of the “The Vail Valley Mountain Bike storied 10th Mountain Division. Association in Eagle County was approached early in the stages of The Continental Divide legisla- creating this bill. We were able to tion is as much a public lands bill work with Representative Polis and as it is a wilderness bill. In fact, less other user groups to identify where than half of the protected acreage we are currently riding our bikes and would become wilderness; the other recreating to ensure we wouldn’t

Devon Balet lands in the bill contain important lose access.” Saeger referenced values but existing uses make other the Sun of Middle Creek Trail near The Continental Divide bill enjoys broad support from a variety designations more appropriate. The Vail as an example. The trail would of user groups and is designed to apply specific, appropriate Wildlife Conservation Areas would border the proposed Spraddle Creek land use designations. “We believe this is the best way to create allow for more active management wilderness addition to the Eagles this type of bill,” said mountain biker Ernest Saeger.

6 Wild Works | JUNE 2012 6 Wild Works | Summer 2018 Summer 2018 | Wild Works 7 Nest Wilderness, and bikers did not Wildlife Management Continental Divide Recreation, Wilderness and want that to interfere with current Area, spectacular moun- Camp Hale Legacy Act access. However, they loved the tain biking in the Tenmile Legend Proposed National Historic Landscape Proposed Wilderness idea of riding adjacent to wilderness. Recreation Management Williams Fork WCA Proposed Wildlife Conservation Area “We were very happy to see that Area and the storied train- Proposed Recreation Management Area Williams Fork Existing Wilderness Areas wilderness area expand, because ing grounds of the 10th Wilderness we’re conservationists, as well… Mt. Division.” ¯ Yes, we want to build new trails and Since its introduction,

Ute Pass recreate just like most user groups. support for the Continental Addition Freeman Creek Addition But we are definitely conservation- Divide Bill has only been Acorn Creek Addition

ists as well and understand we need growing and from some Spraddle Creek Addition to protect our public lands,” he said. surprising groups. To Iraq war veteran Garrett Rep- kick off this year’s small Vail Ptarmigan Peak Wilderness Ptarmigan Additions Addition penhagen is also an outspoken business week, nearly one Straight Creek Addition supporter of the bill, possessing a hundred local businesses Silverthorne Porcupine Gulch unique insight into the historical sig- sent a letter to Senator WCA nificance of the Camp Hale designa- Gardner asking him to Tenmile North tion. He noted that the U.S. military support the bill, citing the RMA chose the site precisely for its rugged importance of protected terrain, harsh weather conditions, public lands to the local

Camp Hale and high-altitude location. “I think economy. Then in advance National Historic Landscape No Name Addition the entire bill is incredible,” he said. of Memorial Day, 395 vet- Tenmile Holy Cross Wilderness Wilderness Tenmile South “People who go there just to recreate erans submitted a similar RMA

will end up learning about our letter, writing: “As veter- Hoosier Ridge Wilderness military history, and people going ans, we fought to protect 0 2.5 5 10 Miles

there to see the military history our country, including our Sources: Esri, DeLorme, USGS, NPS, Sources: Esri, USGS, NOAA piece might get awakened to some precious public lands. … outdoor recreation opportunities,” We ask that you support The Continental Divide bill would protect over 98,000 acres of public land in . New Wilderness, Wildlife he said. He sincerely hopes that the the Continental Divide Conservation Areas, Recreation Management Areas, and the first legislation will pass soon, “before Recreation, Wilderness, and National Historic Landscape at Camp Hale are included in the bill. we lose more 10th Mountain Divi- Camp Hale Legacy Act so sion veterans who fought in Europe. that future generations may Gardner to hop on this win-win I’d like to have the area protected learn its significant history and enjoy bandwagon – keep it coming! so they can stand on this ground its natural beauty.” and know it’s protected for future We’ll continue to join these and generations.” similar groups pushing Senator “The new and expanded wilder- Gardner to co-sponsor the legisla- ness areas will provide important tion. Despite the anti-public lands protection for low-elevation, rhetoric coming from some of the TAKE ACTION ecologically diverse lands, which more extreme members of Congress, are rarely included in designated this is exactly the type of public Thank Rep. Polis and Sen. Bennet for wilderness,” said WW’s Conserva- lands bill that even conservative introducing this bill: tion Director, Will Roush. “Equally members of Congress are likely to wildernessworkshop.org/ exciting are the suite of additional support. Thank you for all your past continental-divide designations tailored to protect sage advocacy, including thanking Rep. grouse habitat in the Williams Fork Polis and Sen. Bennet, and for urging

7 6 Wild Works | Summer 2018 SummerJUNE 20122018 | Wild Works 7 Una nueva frontera WW lanza el programa de difusión Defiende para involucrar a los latinos os residentes del valle probable- financiador, eso está a punto de desarrollo comunitario que incluya L mente tengan comprensión cambiar “. eventos dirigidos a latinos, alzas, de que la población latina en los Al aprovechar las voces influyen- oportunidades educativas y un con-dados vecinos han estado tes de la comunidad latina locales montón de conversaciones person- creciendo constantemente durante podemos sentar las bases para una ales tanto con ciudadanos de a pie muchos años. Los datos confirman relación basada en la confianza y el como con líderes de la comunidad. esa noción. Según cifras recientes respeto, confiamos en que este pro- Después de la fase de acercamiento del censo, el 30% de los ciudadanos grama ayudará a fo-mentar y apoyar inicial, planeamos in-corporar en los condados de Gar-field y Eagle una voz latina para la conservación. Defiende en el marco más amplio ahora son latinos. Las poblaciones Esperamos ser un recurso acogedor, de organización y defensa de latinas de El Jebel, Carbondale y educati-vo y de largo plazo para WW, al tiempo que re-saltamos los Parachute se han estabilizado en ayudar a esta comunidad a entender problemas de tierras públicas que más de 40% en las últimas dos los entresijos de las tierras públicas y preocupan a la comunidad latina “. décadas. New Castle ha experimen- cómo pueden disfrutarlas y conser- El 2 de junio, WW organizó una tado el cre-cimiento más rápido, varlas. fiesta comunitaria de Latinos for aumentando en un 443% entre Varias encuestas recientes Public Lands para dar inicio a De- 2000-20101. En Colorado, alrededor demuestran que la gran mayoría de fiende. Tenemos caminatas guiadas del 40 por ciento de la población la población latina apoya la protec- bilingües en fila para este verano, menor de 24 años no es blanca2. ción de nuestras tierras públicas y y estamos planeando más eventos Durante años, Wilderness Work- el medio ambiente. Una encuesta para más adelante en el año. Estén shop ha reconocido cada vez más de 2016 realizada por Colo-rado atentos a medida que este innova- la importancia que desempeña-rá la College State of the Rockies Project dor programa nuevo evoluciona comunidad latina en la historia de reveló que el 81% de los latinos se y progresa. Consulte la próxima nuestras tierras públicas locales. Nos oponen a vender tierras públicas a edición de Wild Works para obtener enorgullece anunciar el lanzamiento intereses privados, el 65% se opone un resumen com-pleto de nuestro de nuestro programa de alcance más a entregar tierras federales a los verano inaugural de Defiende. reciente, Defiende Nuestra Tierra - estados y el 82% está a favor de Defender nuestra tierra - dirigido por futuros presidentes que protejan tier- la organizadora comunitaria Alicia ras públicas con designaciones de Zeringue. “No hubiéramos podido mo-numentos nacionales3. Nuestro lograr todos nuestros éxitos pasados ob-jetivo es equipar a la comunidad Mantente conservando las tierras públicas sin latina con el conocimiento y las her- un compromiso directo”, dijo Zeri- ramientas para convertir la pa-sión informado ngue. “La población latina apoya en acción, conservando nuestros Regístrese para recibir abrumadoramente la pro-tección del hermosos recursos naturales aquí en alertas (sign up to receive medio ambiente y la preservación el oeste de Colorado. alerts) de las tierras públicas, pero también “Esperamos crecer el pro- son los grupos demográficos menos grama Defiende con el tiempo”, wildernessworkshop.org/ comprometidos por los grupos dijo Zeringue. “Inicialmente nos defiende ‘verdes’. Gracias a un entusiasta enfoca-remos en una estrategia de

8 Wild Works | JUNE 2012 8 Wild Works | Summer 2018 Summer 2018 | Wild Works 9 A New Frontier WW launches Defiende outreach program to engage Latinos

alley residents probably By tapping into the influential conversations with both everyday V have a hunch that the Latino voices in the local Latino commu- citizens and community leaders. population in surrounding coun- nity and laying a foundation for a re- After the initial outreach phase, we ties has been growing steadily for lationship built on trust and respect, plan to fully incorporate Defiende many years. The data confirms that we are confident this program will into WW’s broader organizing and notion. According to recent census help foster and empower a Latino advocacy framework, while also numbers, 30% of citizens in Garfield voice for conservation. We hope to highlighting the public lands issues and Eagle Counties are now Latino. be a welcoming, educational, and that are of concern to the Latino El Jebel, Carbondale, and Parachute’s long-term resource for helping this community.” Latino populations have stabilized community understand the ins and On June 2, WW hosted a Lati- over the past two decades at more outs of public lands and how they nos for Public Lands Community than 40%. New Castle has experi- can enjoy and conserve them. Party to kick off Defiende. We have enced the fastest growth, increasing Several recent polls demonstrate bi-lingual, guided hikes lined up by 443% between 2000-20101. In that the vast majority of the Latino for this summer, and are planning Colorado, about 40 percent of the population supports protecting our more events for later in the year. Stay under-24 population is non-white2. public lands and the environment. tuned as this innovative new pro- For years, Wilderness Workshop A 2016 poll conducted by Colorado gram evolves and progresses. Check has recognized the increasingly College State of the Rockies Project the next edition of Wild Works for important role that the Latino com- revealed that 81% of Latinos oppose a full run down of our inaugural munity will play in the story of our selling off public lands to private summer of Defiende. local public lands. We are proud to interests, 65% oppose turning over announce the launch of our new- federal land to the states, and 82% est outreach program, Defiende are in favor of future presidents Nuestra Tierra — Defend Our Land protecting public lands with national — headed by Community Organizer monument designations3. Our objec- Alicia Zeringue. “We wouldn’t have tive is to empower them with the been able to achieve all our past knowledge and tools to turn passion successes conserving public lands into action conserving our beautiful without direct engagement,” said natural resources here in Western Zeringue. “The Latino population Colorado. is overwhelmingly supportive of “We expect to grow the De- protecting the environment and fiende program over time,” said preserving public lands, yet they Zeringue. “We will initially focus are also the most under-engaged on a community-building strategy demographic by ‘green’ groups. including Latino-targeted events, Thanks to an eager funder, that is hikes, educational opportunities Fiesta para la Comunidad Latina en favor de defender Tierras Públicas. about to change.” and a whole lot of one-on-one Latinos for Public Lands Community Party.

1“Census reveals a changing complexion for the Roaring Fork region”; Aspen Times; April 29, 2011; https://www.aspentimes.com/news/census-reveals-a-changing-complexion-for-the-roaring-fork-region/ 2https://www.denverpost.com/2017/11/09/colorado-rural-demographic-minority-increase/ 3https://www.coloradocollege.edu/other/ stateoftherockies/conservationinthewest/2016-poll-results/

9 8 Wild Works | Summer 2018 SummerJUNE 20122018 | Wild Works 9 Hike Series Hot n’ Spicy We’re throwing in some themed hikes into this year’s mix

Each summer, Hike Series Coordinator Brandon Jones guides about two dozen hikes into the heart of areas we are working to protect. This year, we are offering several themed hikes to spice up our lineup. We hope you can make it!

June 23. Photography workshop with Jon Mullen. We met Jon a couple summers ago when he joined us for a backpacking trip in the Thompson Divide. He brought his camera and snapped a few shots. We were blown away by the quality and variety of his work. He graciously donated some of his photos (you’ve probably seen them in newsletters and emails), and we’ve been friends ever since. Jon will be offering his tips and tricks for nailing the perfect shot in the backcountry. For beginner, amateur, and advanced level participants—come one, come all. View his portfolio at www.jonmullen.com.

June 30. Avalanche Creek Yoga Hike with Lindsay Gurley. In addition to serving on our board, Lindsay is an accomplished yoga teacher and life coach. She is the Founder and Lead Coach at Ora Mãia, a platform to reconnect individuals to their true selves, through exploration and wild play in the woods, deep inner work and personal growth, and rejuvenation of the mind, body, and spirit. Lindsay will be sharing her techniques and passing along the wisdom of her practice.

21 de Julio. Twin Peaks *Joven de Corazón* Caminata Aventurera. ¿Te preguntas sobre los esfuerzos actuales para proteger el Thompson Divide ? Únase al Wilderness Workshop para una corta pero difícil excursión hasta la cima de uno de los Twin Peaks para tener una vista panorámica del lugar.

July 22. Mushroom Forage with Chef Miles Angelo. Friends of fungi unite! Join Caribou Club Chef and master mycologist Miles Angelo on a hike and mushroom forage. Learn how to spot edible mushrooms and sustainably forage with a minimal ecological footprint.

August 25. Watercolor Workshop with Nicolette Touissant. Sometimes the best way to enjoy the outdoors is to simply stop and bask in its glory. Creating art in wilderness is something many of us have contemplated but never quite pulled off. Nicolette is a prolific water color artist who will delight in introducing participants to the finer points of creating art from natural inspiration.

June 23 June 30 July 22

10 Wild Works | SJUNEummer 2012 2018 Summer Schedule Hikes, restoration projects events 2018

June HIkES restoration projects events 20 (Wed) Hunter Creek Wildflower Walk With ACES, Near Aspen 23 (Sat) Photography Workshop With Jon Mullen, Huntmans Ridge, Near Carbondale 24 (Sun) Grizzly Creek Caminata Familiar, Cerca Glenwood Springs 24 (Sun) Camp Hale And Kokomo Pass, Near Vail 27 (Wed) Wild Feast, Aspen 28 (Thurs) Hay Park Full Moon, Near Carbondale 30 (Sat) Avalanche Creek Mindfulness. Meditation. Movement. With Lindsay Gurley, Near Carbondale hikes July 1 (Sun) Lime Park Hike, Near Meredith 7 (Sat) No Name And Bennet Gulch, Near Eagle 8 (Sun) Pull Barb Wire & Restore Wildlife Habitat, Sky Mountain Park, Snowmass 10 (Tues) American Lake Hike, Near Aspen 14 (Sat) Crystal Valley Field Trip, Near Carbondale 15 (Sun) East Creek Poetry Walk With Alya Howe, Near Redstone 18 (Wed) Spraddle Creek Hike, Near Vail 18 (Wed) Public Lands In Peril: An Evening Of Discussion With Wilderness Workshop, Eagle 21 (Sat) Twin Peaks Joven De Corazon, Thompson Divide Circa Glenwood Springs projects 21 (Sat) Restore The Tundra And A Trail, Linkins Lake Trail, Near Aspen 22 (Sun) Mushroom Forage With Chef Miles Angelo, Location TBD August 2 (Thurs) Edible And Medicinal Plants Of The Thompson Divide At Marion Gulch With Sunny Morehouse, Near Carbondale 4 (Sat) Raspberry Loop *Joven De Corazon* Caminata Aventurera, Cerca De Marble 12 (Sun) Carbonate Creek, Near Marble 17 (Fri-Sun) Restore The Wilderness And A Trail, Hay Park, Near Carbondale 24 (Fri) Artist In Wilderness Auction 25 (Sat) Janeway Watercolor Workshop With Nicolette Toussaint, Near Redstone 26 (Sun) Red Hill Picnic Familiar, Cerca De Carbondale September Events 1-3 (Fri-Sun) Backpack Across The Thompson Divide, Near Carbondale 7-9 (Fri-Sun) Restore A Wetland, Crooked Creek Pass, Near Basalt 8 (Sat) Battlement Reservoir Caminata Y Pescado, Cerca De Parachute 21 (Fri) Member Picnic And Sloan’s Farewell, Carbondale 22 (Sun) East Maroon Creek, Near Aspen

learn more & Sign up: JUNE 2012 | 11 wILDERNESSwORKSHOP.ORG\EVENTS Summer 2018 | Wild Works 11 ERUPTION OVER BERLAIMONT ESTATES WW’s advocacy generates public outcry in Eagle Valley

erlaimont Estates is a large-lot abundant wildlife and recreation included a letter from the Eagle B housing development proposed opportunities are foundational to County Commissioners questioning atop a mountainous hillside, 2,000 the area’s character and economy. the project’s benefit to the communi- vertical feet above the town of We should be uniformly committed ty, as well as hundreds more voicing Edwards, on a parcel that provides to protecting these values…. Yet we concerns for wildlife, local recre- important wildlife habitat and is continue to entertain and approve ationists, and the simple principle completely surrounded by public land-use proposals that diminish and of “leave it alone.” After years of lands. But building 19 large, high- jeopardize community values.” After booming development and destruc- end homes at a remote, high-altitude laying out his case against the devel- tion of important wildlife habiat, it location will require miles of new opment and accompanying access seems Eagle County residents wish switchbacking paved road and road, Hart encouraged concerned to take a more thoughtful approach year-round access across public readers to submit comments to the when weighing growth against the lands that are some of the last, best Forest Service. impacts to public lands and are undeveloped habitat for wintering The response around the issue wrestling with how to spell out those wildlife in the area. was tremendous, and locals were priorities. While we can only hope In early March, Staff Attorney overwhelmingly surprised and upset that the Forest Service will carefully Peter Hart published a guest column by the proposal. Letters to the editor consider how locals feel about the in the Vail Daily alerting the public flowed in. Writer and Edwards Berlaimont access road, we will to the issue. “Public lands and a resident Richard Carnes authored continue to press the issue. A final rich natural environment sustain an his own column titled “Proposed Environmental Impact Statement and amazing quality of life for locals,” access road for Berlaimont Estates draft decision is expected this fall. wrote Hart. “Clean air and water, is deja vu all over again.” He wrote: majestic mountains, raging rivers, “…I was completely oblivious to the proposed access road issue just north of Edwards. That is, until local Join us in Eagle Peter Hart wrote his eye-opening Public Lands in Peril: An evening column... Haven’t we been down discussion with Wilderness this road enough times?” The story Workshop was so hot that it was picked up Wednesday, July 18, 2018 | 6-8 p.m. by CBS4 television in Denver; Brush Creek Pavilion they even sent a reporter to the 909 Capitol St, Eagle, CO 81631 field to interview apprehensive residents (watch it at http://denver. Learn about: cbslocal.com/2018/03/08/edwards- How public lands improve our economy, culture, and ecology EcoFlight berlaimont-paved-road/). In mid-April, after the deadline How the Continental Divide bill The Berlaimont proposal would transform this critical for comment submission expired, can protect local landscapes and quiet winter wildlife habitat from one of Colorado’s Wildlife connectivity across I-70 largest migrating deer herds into a sprawling housing the Forest Service announced it had Balancing natural resources with development with year round traffic. received over 700 comments! Those development

12 Wild Works | JUNE 2012 12 Wild Works | Summer 2018 Summer 2018 | Wild Works 13 LOGGING COMING TO THE FRYINGPAN VALLEY WW objection keeps chainsaws out of thriving aspen stands

or two years, WW has been Forest Service can make a good case in the area might limit the amount F urging the Forest Service (F.S.) for this project, given their mandate of aspen regrowth following the to carefully consider and scale back for multiple-use. With this in mind, logging. This conclusion represents a the scope of a roughly 1,800-acre we focused on reducing the most victory for aspen forests in the area logging project in the Upper damaging ecological impacts of the and a great example of the benefits Fryingpan Valley around Lime Park. project rather than stop it outright of our in-depth knowledge of the This project is billed as a combined local landscape and ability to work timber sale and vegetation manage- Success! productively with our local land ment project. We’re not opposed Throughout the National Environ- managers. to all logging on national forests mental Policy Act (NEPA) process as long as it’s done right; some we provided technical comments, M ore to come? vegetation management can have took field trips with Forest Service We’re expecting the Trump ad- ecological benefits. However, there staff, and empowered our members ministration to increase the amount are significant ecological impacts and the public to comment as of logging on national forest lands from logging in this case and most well. The project had a number of across the country so this may be of the project would be clear-cuts. problems, including overlap with a vision of what’s to come. It’s also Commercial timber harvesting at proposed wilderness areas, cumula- a good reminder of the importance significant levels just isn’t going to tive impacts of this and several other of bedrock environmental laws like be sustainable on a high-elevation, logging and vegetation management NEPA. The thorough analysis and recreation-intensive forest like the projects in the area, and the size opportunity for public comment White River. In the broadest sense, of some of the proposed clear cuts required by NEPA improved this our advocacy around vegetation (50-100 acres in some cases). Most project, both for the ecology and the management on the Forest is to push concerning was the F.S.’s plan to cut people in the town of Basalt dealing the F.S. to focus on projects close five stands of healthy, diverse aspen with the impacts of logging trucks. to communities where the impacts trees. The agency’s plan is to pay a Without NEPA we wouldn’t have are relatively lower and the need for contractor to cut and chip the aspen, much of a voice. As an example of ecological restoration tends to be which would then be burnt at the the threats to NEPA, the recently greater and more appropriate since biomass plant in Gypsum. defeated House Farm Bill included a ecosystems close to communities In our formal objection, we asked proposal that would have exempted have been more affected by fire the F.S. to remove those five aspen timber projects up to 3,000 acres suppression. stands…and we were partly success- from any significant analysis and Our initial analysis of this project ful! Of the eight objecting parties, offered very little opportunity for led us to the conclusion that we the F.S. altered the project in re- citizen comments. The Fryingpan were unlikely to be able to stop it sponse to concerns from just us and project would have fallen under that outright. The Forest Plan identifies the Town of Basalt. The F.S. removed exemption and we would have had this area as suitable for timber pro- the three aspen units we were most minimal, if any leverage to challenge duction and the relatively low levels concerned about and additionally or shape it. of logging across the entire White provided stronger language to ad- River National Forest means the dress our concern that cattle grazing

13 12 Wild Works | Summer 2018 SummerJUNE 20122018 | Wild Works 13 MONUMENTAL JOURNEY Touring the Southwest’s threatened monuments by bicycle

he recent attack on National Staircase Escalante and Bears Ears of Late Cretaceous-era fossils. Along T Monuments is a historically and ending in Moab, a 600-mile with volunteers and students, BLM unprecedented action. President trip. Brandon detailed the tour on experts have discovered 21 new Trump slashed Bears Ears and his blog at www.rollonthunder. dinosaur species in this rock layer Grand Staircase Escalante by 85% wordpress.com. Here’s a snapshot of since the monument was established and 50%, respectively. Gold Butte his journey: in 1996. The Diabloceratops, for in Nevada and Cascades Siskiyou “They sure named this correctly,” example, was discovered in 2002 at may face similar fates. These areas I thought, as I hiked my bike up Last Chance Creek, where I sat for a possess rich ecological value, Death Ridge Road, a painfully steep half hour to refill my nearly empty wildlife habitat, and opportunities 4x4 road covered in softball-sized water supply and take a much- for scientific study and recreation, rocks in Grand Staircase-Escalante needed nap under the shade of a and deserve protection. National Monument. Having spent solitary cottonwood tree. the cool morning hours hiking While only 5% of the area has in Paradise Canyon looking for a been surveyed for dinos – let alone seldom-visited slot canyon, which for the modern-day biological I never found, I was reconsidering wonders like the dozens of endemic my decision to start riding the most bee and plant species – the new brutal 30-mile section of my entire monument boundary appears to trip during the heat of mid-day, be drawn to accommodate a coal temps 85 degrees and rising. project proposed in the 1960s. One It’s amazing how much ground can look out across the southern an amateur cyclist like myself can edge of Lake Powell and see the cover in a typical day, let alone smokestacks of the Navajo Generat- three weeks. I started on April 17 ing Station. just shy of 2000 feet of elevation Even as I struggled and sweated Hike Series Coordinator Brandon Jones experienced threat- in the Mojave Desert about an up Death Ridge and other steep, ened national monuments firsthand with a 3-week bike hour from Las Vegas, surrounded unmaintained, and rocky roads, tour covering 600 miles. by Joshua Trees and barrel cacti. I repeatedly found myself saying Ten days and 300 miles later, with out loud: “This is awesome.” All of In December 2017, Wilderness the crowds of St. George and Zion the monuments provided hours of Workshop hosted a panel discus- National Park happily behind me, I solitary riding, largely undisturbed sion before a packed house at the was all alone and climbing Death by the hordes of visitors that clog Third Street Center on the legality Ridge to an elevation of 7,900 feet the highways around gateway towns of the attacks. Brandon Jones, WW’s in the beautiful Kaiparowits Plateau every spring and fall. National adventurous Hike Series Coordina- region of Grand Staircase. Monuments offer a quieter experi- tor, was inspired to experience The 1,600-square mile Kaip- ence. They are protected areas with those threatened places firsthand. arowits Plateau is the least-visited resources as rich as National Parks, This spring, he completed a 3-week of the three regions that comprise without the hubbub and shuttle bike tour on the dirt and gravel back the National Monument. It sits on buses. May the roads in Gold Butte, roads from Nevada’s Gold Butte top of 7 billion tons of coal and a Grand Staircase Escalante, and Bears National Monument through Grand continuous and well-preserved layer Ears stay wild, bumpy, and unpaved.

14 Wild Works | JUNE 2012 14 Wild Works | Summer 2018 Summer 2018 | Wild Works 15 THOMPSON DIVIDE AND BEYOND Spring 2018 oil and gas update

uch of our high-profile work Hunstman Ridge that have been and gas developers without paying M on the Thompson Divide is in suspension for nearly a decade, royalties to taxpayers or putting the now playing out in federal court. and the company still has a pending methane to work (such as by heating There are three pending cases drilling application there. There are homes and generating electricity). concerning “zombie leases.” These also unit proposals and development The Waste Rule is good public are leases that were either cancelled plans involving leases in the Clear policy, and we’ve been fighting hard by the Bureau of Land Management Fork portion of the Thompson Di- with a broad coalition of partners to (BLM) or expired for lack of develop- vide, near the headwaters of Muddy foil Trump’s attempted rollback. ment, and that leaseholders have Creek on the west side of McClure We will continue fighting to sued to have reinstated or brought Pass. We continue to apply pressure protect special places in our area, back from the dead. Two of the to these threats in our long-term like the Thompson Divide and local cases are proceeding slowly due to campaign to protect the valuable roadless areas, from oil and gas ongoing settlement conversations roadless lands within the Thompson development. We will continue between the federal government Divide. pushing BLM to consider the real and the former Thompson Divide In addition, we are fighting new impacts of developing these fossil leaseholder. We’re briefing the third oil and gas lease sales on public fuels on our public lands. And we case as this newsletter goes to print. lands west of the Divide in the will continue working to promote Hopefully, in coming months we’ll Colorado River Valley. BLM sold the thoughtful policy regulating how fos- be able to report that these zombie leases without taking a hard look sil fuel development on public lands leases won’t rise again. at potential site-specific impacts proceeds. We are grateful for your In the meantime, support is build- (like impacts to threatened and continued support of this work. ing for Senator Bennet’s Thompson endangered Colorado River fish, —Staff Attorney Peter Hart Divide Withdrawal and Protection and rare plant species that occur Act, and for a congressional with- only in the Colorado River Valley), drawal that will protect the Divide as well as climate-related impacts permanently from future oil and gas and impacts to human health. Our leasing. Please thank Senator Bennet challenges seek to invalidate the for his continued support when you leases until BLM has complied with see him or by submitting a letter the agency’s legal obligations. to the editor or Op-Ed to the local We also continue fighting the paper. Also, don’t miss an opportu- Trump Administration’s efforts to nity to tell other Representatives and roll back the Methane Waste Rule. candidates that Thompson Divide The Waste Rule was implemented still needs and deserves permanent at the end of the Obama Adminis- protection from the threat of new tration in an effort to curb methane

leasing through an act of Congress. emissions from oil and gas develop- Jon Mullen There are still other develop- ment on public lands (a climate The Thompson Divide Withdrawal and Protection Act ment proposals within further flung bomb), and to ensure that salable would protect the Divide permanently from future oil and portions of the Thompson Divide minerals that belong to the public gas leasing. WW is working on this and other mechanisms that we are fighting off. For example, aren’t simply being vented and/or to secure protections for the Divide and surrounding areas. SG Interests still holds leases atop leaked into the atmosphere by oil

15 14 Wild Works | Summer 2018 SummerJUNE 20122018 | Wild Works 15 Going once, going twice… sold! Art auction August 24 ur Artist in Wilderness (AIW) program awards four to five stipend supported residencies to applicants O selected each year through a juried process. AIW was launched with funds donated in memory of Dottie Fox, one of WW’s founding Maroon Belles and ardent watercolorist. At the conclusion of each residency, visiting artists donate at least one piece of work inspired by their wilderness experience. After a few years, the AIW program amasses a large enough collection, coupled with donations from local artists, to hold an auction, the proceeds of which are used to support WW’s conservation work. The event also raises critical funds so we can continue to host several talented artists every summer. The 2018 auction and cocktail reception is scheduled for August 24 at a private home. If you are interested in learning more, please contact Development Director Rebecca Mirsky at [email protected].

Wild Feast online auction June 18 upport Wilderness Workshop this summer through our annual auction in conjunction with our signature S fundraiser, WILD FEAST! Win unique experiences, exclusive access, and amazing destinations on CharityBuzz. com. Just go to the site and search for Wilderness Workshop. The online auction will run from June 18 to July 3. For more information about the auction or tickets to our annual benefit on June 27, contact rebecca@ wildernessworkshop.org.

New Board Members

WW announced this spring that two accomplished women with strong ties to the Roaring Fork Valley are joining the Wilderness Workshop board, Felicity Huffman and Denali Barron.

Felicity Huffman Felicity grew up in the Roaring Fork Valley. She graduated from NYU and is a founding member of the acclaimed Atlantic Theater Company in New York City. She has earned an Academy Award nomination, Golden Globe and Emmy awards. In 2015, Huffman and her husband, William H Macy took over the Huffman family home in Woody Creek, Colorado. “I remember Connie Harvey and Dottie Fox having breakfast with my mother, Grace, at the Weinerstube Restaurant in Aspen every Wednesday. I remember sitting next to my mother, eating her Felicity Huffman leftover pancakes, listening to Connie and Dottie talk about their efforts to save the wilderness in that wonderful piece of the world. I hope I can be worthy of continuing their work,” said Felicity.

Denali Barron Denali moved permanently to Aspen in the summer of 2012 to work as an ACES Naturalist. After a year of leading interpretive hikes and snowshoe tours, she started teaching the ACES year-round children’s programs. She and her husband, Adam McCurdy, plan to stay in the Roaring Fork Valley for years to come. “I appreciate Wilderness Workshop’s role in balancing our thriving communities with the ecological integrity of the land that supports us. I’m thrilled to be joining the group of remarkable people who comprise their board,” said Denali. Denali Barron

16 Wild Works | Summer 2018 Donor Hall Of FaME Hal Harvey, in honor of Bill Stirling Connie Harvey Judy Fox-Perry and Will Perry, The Wilderness Workshop wishes to thank the Kristen Henry in memory of Randy Udall following generous people who have made Ellen and Bill Hunt Jane and Dick Hart donations since the previous newsletter. New Marianne and Dick Kipper Teri Havens Marcella Larsen Juliane Heyman members are indicated by an asterisk (*). John and Laurie McBride Kate Hudson, in honor of Michael McVoy and Michal Daniel and Rebecca Mirsky Brimm Ann Johnson $25,000+ Anonymous* Mike and Valerie Miller* Mike Johnston Aspen Trail Finder ROFO Larry Naughton and Gerri Paul MacCaskill Anonymous Fund Karetsky Lynn Nichols and Jim Peter Looram and Owen Connor Bailey New Belgium Brewing Gilchrist McHaney Claudia and Richard Company Frank Peters and Marjory Charles Wall Balderston* David Newberger Musgrave $10,000-24,999 Gina Berko and David Meredith and Chuck Ogilby Reese Henry & Co. Anonymous Fleisher Patagonia Mary and Patrick Scanlan Aspen Skiing Company Jim Bonesteel and Caroline Wendy and Hank Paulson, in Pat Spitzmiller Environment Foundation Cochener honor of Mary Dominick Bill Stirling and Barbara David Bonderman and Laurie Megan Bourke Marj Perry and Bill Fales Bussell Michaels Beth Cashdan and Paul James and Hensley Peterson Jay and Patti Webster William Ewing Foundation D’Amato Rob Pew and Susan Taylor Ted Zukoski Jimmy Ibbotson Anneliese Chumley Sally Ranney $250-499 George and Cynthia Mitchell Laurence Cohen Sara Ransford Anonymous Foundation Coldwell Banker Mason Sally Sakin Tracy and Robert Bennett Pitkin County Morse Garry and Sharon Snook Bruce Berger New-Land Foundation Annie Cooke and Steven David Stonington Marc Bruell Eaden and Deva Shantay Pfeiffer Elissa Topol and Lee Charlyn Canada Jill Soffer Christin Cooper and Mark Osterman Kim Chang and Jim Condit Tache Town of Carbondale $5,000-9,999 Yasmine De Pagter, in Karen Degerberg Katie and Hank Van Schaack memory of Jack de Pagtet Tania Amochaev Andrew and Carol DePaul Annie Ware Carol Duell Tom and Currie Barron Leslie Desmond Andy Wiessner and Patsy Edie Engstrom* Paul Stanford Bernhard Mary Dominick-Coomer and Batchelder Matthew Hamilton Foundation Sven Coomer $500-999 Lynn and Judy Hancock City of Aspen Jeremy and Angela Foster Randy and Althy Brimm Allyn Harvey Chelsea Congdon and James Joanne and Tony Guerrerio Shelley Burke and Al Nemoff Caroline Hicks and Bert Brundige Lucy Hahn Jennifer Catto Fingerhut Marcia Corbin Mark Harvey Nick DeWolf Foundation Jennifer Engel*, in honor of William Hudson Gayle Embrey Janny Goss Kristen and Wally Graham Felicity Huffman and Bill Macy Martens Foundation Please consider joining… Marcie and Robert Musser Carol Racine e can only stand up for wilderness and wild places because of our members and Aron Ralston Thrift Shop of Aspen W supporters. Over 75% of our annual budget comes from individuals like you, who $1,000-4,999 are committed to conserving public lands. We rely on community contributions each year Alpenglow Foundation and to protect the ecological integrity of our local landscape. Thank you! And for those of you John & Laurel Catto who have not joined our family, please consider doing so. You can call Rebecca at 970- Anonymous, in honor of Ida 963-3977 or visit wildernessworkshop.org/join-us Mae Jackson

17 SummerJUNE 20122018 | Wild Works 17 Charlie and Betsy Liggitt Charles and Janice Collins Susie Kincade Roberta Stokes Henry Lord Richard Compton Sarah and Steven Knous Kit Strang Martha and Mike McCoy Deborah Coombe Jane Leddy Hal Sundin Kent and Elizabeth Meager Don Davidson and Sandy Bill and Carol Lightstone David and Geni Swersky Nancy Meuret Simpson Soozie, Hans and Maya Dr. Diana Tomback Mary Beth and Gregg Minion Bette Davis, in honor of Justin Lindbloom Tom and Roz Turnbull John and Lesia Rehl Patrick Judy and Amory Lovins Linda Vidal Will and Margaret Roush Yves Delepine, in honor of Ned and Tracey Lucks Craig and Becky Ward Audrey Sattler and Don Roberta Stokes Valerie Macdonald Tom and Donna Ward Fleisher Katie Dolan, in honor of Mary Andrew McGregor Damien Webster* Gail and Alan Schwartz Dominick Holly McLain Fred Weitz John and Ingrid Seidel Sheila Draper* Elsa Mitchell Jason White and Emily Steers- Terri Slivka David Eberhardt Karen Moculeski White Rita Soffer, in honor of Jill Suasan and Don Edmonds Carolyn and Tom Moore Dara Whitmore Soffer David Ellis Wick Moses, in memory of Julie and Andre Wille Collin Stewart Scott Ely Gene Herbert Pierre and Beth Wille Karin Teague, in honor of Nancy Emerson Sue and Greg Mozian Dexter Williams Tim McFlynn and Charlie Olivia Emery Barney and Dot Mulligan Ron and Mary Wolff Hopton Katie Ertl, in honor of Allyn Sandy, Mary Lynn and Aj Jim Woolaway Drs. Richard Voorhees and Harvey and Vanessa Munro Eileen and Glenn Wysocki Alice Bedard-Voorhees Corona Andrew Nardecchia Toni Zurcher Dr. Richard and Gayle Wells Anne Esson Bland Nesbit* Paula Zurcher Doug Winter Jan and Jerry Fedrizzi Kerry and Ricki Newman $50-99 Greg and Kathy Feinsinger Warren Ohlrich $100-249 Nancy Berry Susan and George Fesus Karen M Ortiz, in honor of Anonymous Jeff and Janette Bier Jim Finch Sloan and Beth Shoemaker Aspen Total Automotive Tom Bleskan* Annie Flynn Ginny Parker J G Augustson Liz and John Bokram Dorothy Frommer Bruce Parlette Paul and Carole Auvil Judy Botinovch Mark Fuller Julie and Tom Paxton Clare Bastable and Josh Rachel Brett and Josh Kuhn* Donna and Bernard Grauer Maggie Pedersen and Bob Hmielowski Barb and Lindsay Brown Casady Henry Millette Karen Beard William Capps Ann Hodges Paul Perley Lee Beck and John Stickney Helen and Roger Carlsen Pat and Wayne Hogan Catherine Porter Rob Benedetti and Maria Lee Cassin Janis and George Huggins Susan D. Proctor Yurasek Trish Chew Judy Hutchins Missy Prudden Richard Blauvelt and Cathy Click Sandy Jackson Bob Purvis Candace Goodwin* Ned and Jan Cochran Mirte Mallory and Philip Adam and Mandy Quinton Steve Bonowski Susan Cuseo Jeffreys Glenn Randall Betsy and Scott Bowie Lisa Dameron Sandy And Peter Johnson Ron Reed Valerie Byrnes* Lisa Dancing-Light Deborah Jones and John Maggie Rerucha JudyByrns and Joe Bergquist Roger Davis and Nancy Katzenberger M C Reveal Roger Candee Thomas* Patrick and Donna Keelty, in Lee Rimel Jacqueline Dearborn, in Tom and Jody Cardamone memory of LadyHawke Jim Risser Steve and Molly Child honor of Rawley Fosler Deb “Dog House” Keller Roaring Fork Audubon Susie Coit, in honor of Doug Driskell David and Maureen Kerr Society Jennifer Bennett Ann Duncan Stacy Kiely Gerry Roehm Rogelio Fernandez Beth Schaefer Adrian Fielder Jacob Schur*, in honor of Jack Schur Eleanor Finlay Greer and Bruce Fox Carolyn and Dick Shohet John Fox Mike and Margaret Simmons Sloan, you did an excellent job of Michael Fuller, In honor of “ Laurie Smith* deer killed on Hwy 82 Eric Stahl bringing WW into the mainstream. Sara Garton Deidre Stancioff Jon Gibans You leave western Colorado better Jonathan Staufer Monique Gilbert Josef Staufer* Randy Gold and Dawn than you found it. Sandy and Stephen Stay Shepard Leelee and Bill Stege –John Seidel, DOW officer and WW Board member Leslie Gray

18 Wild Works | Summer 2018 Wild Works | JUNE 2012 18 Heidi Hoffmann and Mary Dominick Margot Graham Richard Vottero Tom Griffiths Donna and Ken Riley Doug and Peggy Karen Wahrmund Cheri Grinnell, in honor Polly Ross Graybeal Anna Walters* of Mary Dominick Sherry Schenk Elly Harder* George Wear Kay Hannah Jill and Michael Scher Ann Harris Lee Wilson Sacha Hart-Logan and Carol Schoonhoven Peter Hart Tracy Wilson* Michael Logan Judith Schramm Kevin Hillmer-Pegram* Tina Wilson and Tim P.O. Box 1442 Susan Harvey Barbara Shaw David and Annaday Carter* Carbondale, CO 81623 Rick and Sherry Rosalina Shearwood Hiser Robert Zupancis Offices in the Third Street Center, Herrington Shelly Sheppick and Stu Michael Hurst Business Sponsors 520 S. 3rd St., Carbondale Annie Hodgson Ufrig Niki and Rodney Jacobs* Tel (970) 963-3977 10th Mountain Whiskey Gail and Phil Holstein Shayne Morgan Sledge Art and Suez Jacobson www.wildernessworkshop.org Alpine Bank David Hyman and Charlie Stein and Lyra Sarah Johnson [email protected] Barbara Reid Mayfield Lois Johnson* Amore Realty Christie Interlante Diane and John Stine Kenneth Jones An Aspen Affair The Wilderness Workshop’s mission John Isaacs Danny Stone Pat Kiernan Aspen Magazine is to protect and conserve the Suzanne Jackson Jim Stone Richard Klein The Environment wilderness and natural landscapes Elise Jones Shelley Supplee Kala Kluender* Foundation funded of the Roaring Fork Watershed, the Suzanne Jones Anne Teague Amy Krakow* by the employees White River National Forest, and Regna Jones* Rein and Jan Van West Howie Kuhn* of Aspen Skiing adjacent public lands. Jackie Kasabach P.J. Wallace Patty Lecht Company Board of Directors Shelley Kaup Howard Wallach* Erica Lindemann Aspen Square Karen Teague Condominium Ann Keller Sylvia Wendrow Denise Lock President Collins and Clara Kelly, Polly Whitcomb Sheila Markowitz* Association Allyn Harvey Aspen Thrift Shop in memory of Patrick Beka Wilson Julia Marshall Vice President Kelly Marion, Jean and Matthew McKenna Aspen Times Charles Hopton Balcomb & Green, PC Jason and Aimee Kishell Hayden Winkler Jennifer Moore Co-Treasurer Blazing Adventures Sandra Kucharczyk Aimee and Luis Yllanes* Lisa Niermann Peter Looram Bristlecone Mountain Land + Shelter Up to $49 John and Judith Norton Co-Treasurer Brad and Laurel Larson Marta Parker Sports Paul, Lu and Tait Lindsay Gurley Natasha Leger Nancy and Bob Pazik* Caribou Club Andersen Secretary Laurel Loeb Eric and Karen Peirson City of Aspen Barbara and Robert Denali Barron Jose and Rhonda Lopez Nancy Peterson Cripple Creek Andre Mary Dominick Diane Madigan Julie and Greg Pickrell Backcounty Anonymous Sue Edelstein Martha Madsen George and Carol Pucak Crystal River Meats Becky Anslyn Cici Fox Alex Marks Debbie Rice Eagle Crest Nursery Felicity Huffman Alan Apt David Marlow Wilda Jean Richmond Element Basalt - Aspen Michael Mcvoy Alexander Argyopaulos* Ali Marshall*, in honor Tim Riggins* Hotel Aron Ralston Peggy Ball of Peter Van Domelen Celia Roberts* English in Action Jill Soffer Scott Braden Mary Matchael/Crystal Stan Rose* Field to Fork Catering Michael Stranahan Katrina Byars Glass Studio, Inc. Carol Rubenstein Grappa Fine Wine & Peter Van Domelen Rick and Lorrie Carlson Joanie Matranga Jill Sabella Spirits Ted Zukoski and Joe Kolbe Thomas Mcgill Harmony Scott Harry Teague Architects Andy Wiessner Pam Chiaro* Johanna Mueller Rick Seymour* Isberian Rugs Carolyn Cipperly* Fsounder Rebecca Norman and Karen and Bill Shorr, Kaitlyn Williams Music Jane Click Joy Caudill Matt Dvorak in loving memory of Land + Shelter Theo and Cynthia Dottie Fox Tom Oken and Janie TAKU Mi Casita Colebrook, in honor Connie Harvey Lowe Jean Smith, in memory New Belgium Beer of Sloan and Beth Gracie Oliphant of Art Smith Reese Henry & Co. Staff Shoemaker Carol Pasternak Tatyana Stevens* Roaring Fork Beer Co. Sloan Shoemaker, Virginia Culp Fred and Sandra Peirce Ellen and Doug Stewart Roaring Fork Horse Executive Director Jay Engstrom* Elizabeth Penfield Ned Sullivan Council Sally and Chris Faison Kelsey Brasseur Ken and Bonnie Lynn Tanno Sopris Liquor & Wine Katie Fales* Brandon Jones Pletcher* Lisa Tasker Suerte Tequila Molly Fales* Melanie Finan Dan and Holly Joanne Teeple* Tito’s Handmade Vodka Rawley Foster* Peter Hart Richardson George and Jenny True Nature Healing Arts Lydia Garvey Rebecca Mirsky Kay Richter and Stephen Tempest Ute Mountaineer Martin Gerra Justin Patrick Buchman, in honor of Leslie Thomas* Valley Settlement Damon Giordano* Will Roush Woodford Reserve Alicia Zeringue

JUNE 2012 | WildSummer Works 2018 | Wild Works 19 NON-PROFIT ORG U.S. POSTAGE PAID PERMIT NUMBER 62 CARBONDALE, CO P.O. BOX 1442 81623 CARBONDALE, CO 81623 ADDRESS SERVICE REQUESTED

Printed on 100% recycled paper. Please recycle this newsletter - pass it on to a friend!