Description
Start Date-End Date: 04/07/2018-04/07/2018
Land Manager Office: BLM - San Luis Valley
Land Manager Contact: Sally Wier
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Summary: SLV community project run by Sally Wier on SLV BLM land at Penitente Canyon
Description: SLV community project run by Sally Wier on SLV BLM land. Cleared overgrown shrubs from trails and belay station areas in the main climbing canyon area. Looped off the shrubs and hauled out the debris to be removed by BLM staff.
23 community members attend. Sub groups included members of the ASU climbing team and students in the ASU class "Intro to Outdoor Leadership" taught by Curt Howell.
23 people, 4 hours each, 92 hours total
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Camping Available: No
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Desired Number of Volunteers: 25
Total Adult Volunteers Attended: 23
Total Youth Volunteers Attended: 0
Total Volunteer Days: 23
Total Unique Volunteers: 23
Total Volunteer Hours: 92
Staff Hours: 19
Stipend Hours: 0
Project Summary: BLM Penitente Canyon Care Day - April 7 - engaged 23 community members in 4 hours of work at PC to cut and clean out shrubbery along overgrown canyon trails for hikers and rock climbers. Several trailer loads worth of woody debris were removed from the canyon and hauled away. Participants included community members, members of the Adams State University rock climbing team and students at ASU in an outdoor leadership course. These students did a morning session with Clayton Davey of the BLM to talk about trail work and sustainable trail design practices before joining in with the other volunteers as part of their class curriculum.
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Description of Accidents/Incidents: none
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