Description
Start Date-End Date: 09/10/2021-09/10/2021
Land Manager Office: City of Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks
Land Manager Contact: Beau Clark
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Summary: Reroute a popular trail in Boulder.
Description: Read Before You Register! Need-to-Know Details:
We greatly appreciate you volunteering your time and energy to care for Colorado's outdoor places during COVID-19. To help provide a fun and safe experience for all, there are a few temporary changes to be prepared for:
You may only register yourself.Every volunteer must sign our digital COVID-specific forms ahead of time to be able to attend.
You must provide your own food.VOC will not be providing meals at this time.
You must bring a face mask and work gloves.Pleaseclick herefor our full packing list of required and recommended items.
Cancellation & Waitlists:Due to this year's limited number of projects and volunteer spots, we expect projects to fill quickly with waitlists. If you need to cancel, please email outreach@voc.org as soon as possible so we can free your spot for another Xcel Energy employee and have a full workforce.
About the Stewardship Site: The Tenderfoot Trail located on Flagstaff Mountain in Boulder is a 1.6 mile heavily trafficked out and back trail suitable for all kinds of users. Hikers and trail runners are the main user types. Wildlife such as black bears, mountain lions, song birds, birds of prey, mule deer, red foxes, and coyotes call the area near the trail home and can be spotted when visiting.
About the Volunteer Experience: Volunteers will be assisting the City of Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks with rerouting the Tenderfoot Trail to improve trail sustainability, visitor experience, and to protect ecological habitat. Volunteers will be finalizing a trail that will be roughed in by a machine ahead of the project.
About the Overall Impact: In addition to improved trail sustainability, the new trail will reduce undesignated trails in a Habitat Conservation Area.
About Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado (VOC)Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado (VOC) is the state's oldest, largest, and leading outdoor stewardship nonprofit organization. Founded in 1984 to motivate and enable people to become active stewards of Colorado's natural resources, VOC has engaged nearly 125,000 people in more than 1,000 volunteer projects for a donated labor value of $25 million. Through award-winning youth and volunteer programs, leadership training, capacity-building programs, and collaborative efforts with nonprofits and land management agencies, VOC is an invaluable resource in Colorado, especially as our outdoor stewardship needs are approaching near-crisis levels. For more information, visit www.voc.org or call 303-715-1010.
Latitude/Longitude: 39.998075, -105.309784
Additional Information:
To help provide a fun and safe experience for all, there are a few temporary changes to be prepared for:
You must provide your own food.VOC will not be providing meals at this time.
You must bring a face mask and work gloves.Pleaseclick herefor our full packing list of required and recommended items.
Camping Available: No
Physical Difficulty: Moderate
High Altitude Project: No
Desired Number of Volunteers: 45
Total Adult Volunteers Attended: 28
Total Youth Volunteers Attended: 0
Total Volunteer Days: 28
Total Unique Volunteers: 28
Total Volunteer Hours: 140
Staff Hours: 13
Stipend Hours: 0
Project Summary: project went great and we got good work done. 28 folks showed up for a half day of trail work on the Tenderfoot Trail. the group improved 950 of trail that was previously cut. work mostly included cutting backslope, making sure there were no high/low spots on the trail for water to settle, raking discarded dirt down the hill so that it wasnt piled up more than an inch anywhere.
Successes and Challenges: xcel has their own internal sign up system that they need to use, so it was hard to get folks to register through our site as well. but of the ones that showed up, most were registered through VOC.
There was a breakdown in communication with Xcel around volunteer numbers. On Thursday, VOCOM showed that 23 volunteers were singed up but the XCel team lead said they had 42 signed up. I wasnt checking in on numbers becuase the contact said they were really good at getting folks to register through our site as well, so lesson learned. It was all good and Beau had enough crew leads to lead that showed up.
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