Field Trips

Summary and Logistics: Quick description: This field trip will take place at Daniels Park, located about 25 miles (40km) south of Downtown Denver. Daniels Park occurs right at the intersection of the High Plains, Southern Rockies, and Southwestern Tablelands ecoregions of Colorado This diverse environment offers views of Pikes Peak up to Wyoming’s Snowy Range …

Project Hosts: Boulder County Parks & Open Space, City of Longmont Natural Resources, The Watershed Center St. Vrain Creek is the largest drainage basin within Boulder County, and despite over a century of impacts  from water diversions, development, floods and forest fires, still retains many important natural  features, and is home to Federal and State …

Field Trip Summary:  Riparian Reconnect is a grassroots wetland restoration effort by restoration practitioners, conservationists, scientists, and land managers dedicated to restoring Colorado’s headwater riverscapes throughout Colorado. Led by Colorado Open Lands and EcoMetrics, our work targets headwater wetlands with beavers (Castor canadensis). We emphasize historical context and careful reading of the riverscape to diagnose ecological  processes …

Denver Botanic Gardens is working to improve ecosystem health and connections between people, plants, and soil at our 700-acre farm. In this half-day field trip, participants will see different techniques and experiments highlighting restoration at different scales, from backyards to larger open spaces and considering genes to community level processes. Participants will see a multi-year …

This field trip will visit Summit Lake, a Denver Mountain Parks (DMP) Open Space property located at 13,000ft, below Mt Blue Sky. For over a decade, DMP has been working to restore the impacts of high recreational visitation on the fragile alpine tundra ecosystem while providing inclusive recreation opportunities. Wildlands Restoration Volunteers (WRV) has partnered …

On this full-day field trip, attendees will visit two diverse Wildlife Refuges in the Rocky Mountain region: the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge and the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge.  Rocky Mountain Arsenal RMA aerial photo, 1943. Bison at Rocky Mountain Arsenal Wildlife Refuge On 27 square miles and just 10 miles northeast of downtown …