Dear Friend,
Happy mud season!
This time of year in Grand County tends to be quieter than the rest. We all take a break to relax from the busy winter before the summer starts in a few weeks. But as many take vacations, conservation never stops.
Our work at the land trust is year-round. Properties sell and development continues regardless of the season, which means we lose the wildlife habitats, free-flowing rivers, and stunning viewsheds that keep people coming to Grand County season after season. But every one of our conservation easements helps keep Grand County beautiful and natural, so that when people do come to Grand County to live, explore, and play, they can enjoy this beautiful place as people have for so long.
Conservation comes in many forms – it can encourage recreation, it can protect wildlife, it can defend heritage and history, and it can maintain the vistas seen from roads and trails throughout the county.
Your support for the land trust is support for the beauty, history, and health of Grand County – in perpetuity.
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One project that does all of this is the Granby Highlands-Trails Conservation Easement. After many years, we are finally in the home stretch to secure this easement.
We have until the end of the year to conserve this 780-acre property in the Town of Granby. The resulting conservation easement will include publicly accessible trails, an area closed to recreation to protect wildlife, controlled fishing access on the Colorado River, and a seasonal closure for our local wildlife.
The Granby project is community-driven and will benefit everyone, being just a few miles from downtown Granby and along highways 40 and 34. Much of the conserved property will be open for recreation in the summer and the entire property will be closed in the winter, to support the herds of elk who overwinter in the Granby area.
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We are so close to raising the final funding for this project and are working to close the deal by the end of the year. In the end, we will have a new conserved property that supports summer recreation and winter wildlife alike.
Thank you to everyone who has supported the project so far! If you want to help this project succeed, please include a note with your donation: “for Granby Highlands-Trails.”
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This summer is already filling up with events to engage and educate about conservation in Grand County. Our book club, a collaboration with Headwaters Trails Alliance, began last winter and is going strong. We meet quarterly and at each meeting discuss a book and topic related to our lives in Grand County, in Colorado, and in the West. Our upcoming book club meeting will be on Thursday, June 15, at the Headwaters Center in Winter Park, and we’ll be discussing Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter, by Ben Goldfarb.
Two other annual educational events returning this summer are our Wildflower Walk on Sunday, June 25, and Songs and Stars on Saturday, August 12. We also are a returning partner of Fraser Valley Arts’ Plein Air at Altitude on Saturday and Sunday, September 02 and 03, and National Public Lands Day on Saturday, September 23.
Hats Off for Headwaters will take a different look this year: a month-long raffle in September, followed by an in-person celebration in early October. Keep your eyes on our monthly email newsletters and our social media for more information as those events – and others – get closer!
You don’t have to wait for our events to support our work – your contribution will help us continue our year-round work protecting the land, water, and natural resources we all love so much in Grand County. To make your gift, please use visit our website, or call our office:
(970) 887-1177.
Please also consider signing up for recurring donations, which we can continuously count on to protect the land we love. Visit www.coloradoheadwaterslandtrust.org to contribute today.
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Jeremy D. Krones
Executive Director
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Paula Metcalf Stuart
President, Board of Directors
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PO Box 1938, Granby CO. 80446 - (970) 887-1177
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