Conservation Summit Comes to Jefferson County

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PLAN Jeffco and Jeffco Open Space are proud to announce the Jeffco Conservation Summit Series, a series of talks that will address visitorship, stewardship, and enjoyment of our Open Space Parks while enhancing the understanding of how open spaces must be managed for the benefit of all – the land, wildlife, and park visitors.

The first session of the Conservation Summit series, “Celebrating Visionary Women”, will focus on issues surrounding gear disparity, self-perception, and inequity in the outdoors.

The Summit will feature local women and outdoor enthusiasts:

Jennifer Barbour, Executive Director of Team Evergreen Cycling, http://teamevergreen.org/organizer/jennifer-barbour/

Niki Koubourlis, Entrepreneur and founder of Bold Betties, http://www.freshtrackswithkellyrobbins.com/employee-to-entrepreneur/niki-koubourlis-story-employee-entrepreneur-low-bold-betties/

Alexia O’Connor, Health Coach & Postural Therapist, Lead Sales for Title Nine, https://www.titlenine.com/

This event is free, but reservations are required. Go to EventBrite to make your reservation now!

“Celebrating Visionary Women” will be presented at Boettcher Mansion and the Lookout Mountain Nature Center on Saturday, June 30th, from 8:30 AM to 1:30 PM.  Continental breakfast and lunch provided, post-lunch yoga instruction by NamasteWorks Yoga + Wellness, http://namasteworksyoga.com/

Boettcher Mansion, 900 Colorow Road, Golden, CO 80401
720-497-7630
https://www.jeffco.us/1658/Contact-Us

Youth Engagement With The Outdoors – Learning About Wildlife

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Encouraging everyone to learn about and engage with the outdoors is part of the mission of PLAN Jeffco, and if we can capture the imagination of a youngster, get them excited about the outdoors and the critters that live in the wild, we figure we’ll have wilderness and open spaces advocates for a lifetime.

Rachel Martin was helping her class of youngsters understand and appreciate wildlife when they ran across our website and the wildlife articles we’ve posted (https://www.planjeffco.org/experience-open-space_articles.html).

One of her students, named John, was so excited by the find that he went home and did more web searches on his own. He found the website for the International Wolf Center* in Ely, Minnesota and a great wolf-cam page that he shared with Ms. Martin.

We at PLAN Jeffco were very pleased to hear that young John and his classmates had been studying wildlife and open spaces, and when the kids asked if we could add the link to the wolf-cam to our website, we were thrilled. So here it is: “Using Video Surveillance to Advance the Survival of Wolf Populations – A Case Study”

Thank you, Ms. Martin, for helping the next generation know, understand and love nature.

 * The International Wolf Center advances the survival of wolf populations by teaching about wolves, their relationship to wildlands and the human role in their future. http://www.wolf.org/