Description
Start Date-End Date: 09/19/2015-09/19/2015
Land Manager Office: Flying W Ranch
Land Manager Contact: Heather Vozzola
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Summary: Cairn participants will go to the Flying W Ranch for their first project to build LEBs and learn about wildfires in Colorado.
Description: Cairn participants will go to the Flying W Ranch for their first project to build LEBs and learn about wildfires in Colorado.
Latitude/Longitude: 34.382869, -96.291940
Additional Information:
Camping Available: No
Physical Difficulty: Moderate
High Altitude Project: No
Desired Number of Volunteers: 40
Total Adult Volunteers Attended: 3
Total Youth Volunteers Attended: 28
Total Volunteer Days: 31
Total Unique Volunteers: 31
Total Volunteer Hours: 279
Staff Hours: 14
Stipend Hours: 0
Project Summary: For the first Cairn project of the 2015/2016 season, 28 Cairn students and 3 mentors headed down to the Flying W Ranch in Colorado Springs. We started off the day playing ice breakers in the VOC office, and then all drove down together. Upon our arrival, we listened to the Flying W staff talk about safety, and fire ecology- specifically of the Waldo Canyon fire. We learned what the purpose of a Log Erosion Barrier (LEB) is, and then got to work! Cairn students put in almost 40 LEBs, and surpassed what the staff thought they could accomplish.
Successes and Challenges: There was traffic on I-25 (per usual), so the ride just seemed to take forever.
Lessons Learned: Building LEBs was great. Working in burn scars is fun and educational, and the Cairn students really seemed to enjoy the work.
Special Notes:
Stewardship Education: In depth education provided by the staff from Flying W Ranch.
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