Podcasts about wilderness workshop

On this week's episode of Everything Under The Sun, Sopris Sun hosts speak with Peter Hart and Will Roush of Wilderness Workshop regarding the recent approval of a 20-year mineral leasing withdrawal from the Thompson Divide.

This week, The Sopris Sun interviews staff members of Wilderness Workshop about the upcoming Naturalist Nights Series.

Two bills, HB-1266 and SB 200, are putting environmental justice in front of state legislators. Beatriz Soto, director of Wilderness Workshop's Defiende Nuestra Tierra Program , talks about the bills and environmental injustice in the Roaring Fork and Colorado River valleys.

Garfield County Commissioners recently signed a resolution opposing President Joe Biden’s pledge to protect 30% of lands and waters by 2030. KDNK’s Amy Hadden Marsh checked some facts with Wilderness Workshop's Will Roush, who has been involved with the “30 by 30” plan since last year.

This week Richard Eaton takes us through the wilderness again as we continue to explore Exodus 16. ***PRAYER REQUESTS*** If you have a prayer request please fill out this form and we'll do our best to get back to you. Alternatively, email us 3c@allnationsbedford.org https://forms.gle/FVJCkKz6rQv5RXKg9 ***FIND OUT MORE ABOUT US HERE*** http://www.allnationsbedford.org/ https://live.allnationsbedford.org/ ***GET IN TOUCH*** https://www.facebook.com/allnationsbedford/ https://www.youtube.com/allnationsbedford/ https://www.instagram.com/allnationsbedford/ https://twitter.com/allnationsbeds

Wilderness Workshop’s Summer Hiking Series takes on a new look this year. KDNK’s Amy Hadden Marsh spoke with Hike Series Coordinator Brandon Jones to find out more.

Beatriz Soto is and architect, environmentalist and Latino Outreach Coordinator for Wilderness Workshop. She recently co-founded Voces Unidas , a network of Latino and Latina leaders in Garfield, Pitkin and Eagle counties. Beatriz talks about traveling to the US with her parents as a two year old and adapting to new places. She also talks about work with Wilderness Workshop, Voces Unidas, and the impact of COVID-19 on the valley's Latinos.

The first hearing on the Trump Administration’s proposal to speed up energy projects through a National Environmental Policy Act rollback was held in Denver on Tuesday. Although industry strongly supports a push for faster environmental reviews, many people testifying during the hearing said a careful process leads to better decisions. Our partners at KDNK spoke with Peter Hart, staff attorney for Wilderness Workshop, about what’s at stake if the proposed revisions to NEPA are approved. Show Notes: NEPA Modernization, Council on Environmental Quality ¬– https://www.whitehouse.gov/ceq/nepa-modernization/ Submit Comments for Docket ID No. CEQ-2019-0003 – https://beta.regulations.gov KDNK, ‘Wilderness Workshop Weighs in on NEPA Changes’ – https://www.kdnk.org/post/wilderness-workshop-weighs-proposed-nepa-changes Denver Post, ‘NEPA battle pits Colorado leaders, residents against industry backers of Trump push for faster environmental reviews’ – https://www.denverpost.com/2020/02/11/nepa-review-denver-hearing/ The Colorado Sun, ‘Trump administration’s effort to roll back NEPA environmental law draws ire at Denver hearing’ – https://coloradosun.com/2020/02/11/nepa-trump-administration-colorado-denver-hearing/

Garfield County Commissioners recently rejected permanent protection of the Thompson Divide as stated in the proposed Colorado Outdoor Recreation Economy Act. But, some of their reasons aren't accurate. Scott Willoughby of Trout Unlimited and Will Roush of Wilderness Workshop join host Amy Hadden Marsh to do a little fact-checking.

Speaker: Van K. Graham, Retired Terrestrial Wildlife Biologist Description: The Greater Sandhill Crane is an iconic bird species of the Yampa Valley in Northwest Colorado. Van will present a narrative describing the life history of Colorado’s Greater Sandhill Cranes. He will discuss the annual cycle of crane migration in the fall and their return to our high country nesting habitats in the spring. His presentation will reveal intimate knowledge of how cranes interact with our mountain environment, other wildlife and human settlement in the West. Speaker Bio: Van K. Graham is a retired wildlife biologist who worked for Colorado Parks and Wildlife for 32 years. His interest in sandhill cranes began while working in Steamboat Springs where the core population of Colorado’s nesting and staging cranes is located. Sandhill cranes were listed as a Colorado endangered species in 1973 and by the mid-1970s research on cranes had intensified, primarily to gather baseline data and begin development of management plans and programs. Throughout his career he assisted with annual work plans, inventories, field studies, and development of a Greater Sandhill Crane recovery plan. He worked with CPW wildlife managers based in northwest Colorado and collaborated on plans with the U.S. Forest Service. Van currently lives in Grand Junction, where he works as a private environmental consultant, primarily in western Colorado. He is a Board Member of the Colorado Crane Conservation Coalition, which sponsors the annual Yampa Valley Crane Festival in Steamboat Springs in late August-early September each year. He maintains a deep interest in sandhill cranes and enjoys traveling to various locations to observe, photograph, and enjoy sandhill cranes across North America. Naturalist Nights are brought to you through a partnership between the Wilderness Workshop, Aspen Center for Enviornmental Studies (ACES) and Roaring Fork Audubon.

Speaker: Sara Porterfield, PhD Description: The Colorado River has long served as an icon of the arid American West and the central character in the story of human manipulation of water resources in the United States. However, the Colorado River Basin has shaped and been shaped by the development and use of rivers around the world. In this talk, Sara Porterfield will explore the history of a global exchange of information, technology, and ideology between the Colorado River Basin and international river basins in the late nineteenth century—an exchange that continues to the present day. Through stories of the engineers, bureaucrats, policymakers, and whitewater boaters who traveled to and from the Colorado River Basin to rivers around the world, she will show how the international history of the Colorado River Basin can help us better understand the past while also providing valuable lessons and insights for current policymaking and water management decisions. Speaker Bio: Sara Porterfield, PhD, is a historian, river guide, educator, author, and founder of Tributaries Consulting whose work focuses on the Colorado River Basin and water in the American West. Sara’s love of the Colorado River began during childhood on family road trips across the West. After college, her interest in the river led her to working for the Colorado Outward Bound School where she has guided trips on the rivers of the Colorado Basin since 2005. Not content with just floating the river, Sara began her doctoral studies in order to understand the natural and human history of the Colorado and water in the West. After graduating from the University of Colorado Boulder with a PhD in History, Sara founded Tributaries Consulting in 2018 in order to bring historical perspectives to the Western water community through research, writing, education, and public outreach. Sara, her husband Jeff, and their pups make their home in Boulder, Colorado. When not writing about or researching the rivers of the West she enjoys running rivers, drinking coffee, trail running, eating chocolate, and doing yoga. Naturalist Nights are brought to you through a partnership between the Wilderness Workshop, Aspen Center for Enviornmental Studies (ACES) and Roaring Fork Audubon.

Speaker: Kathryn Bernier, Colorado Parks and Wildlife Description: Though many intrepid explorers hike Colorado’s high elevation mountains, only a lucky few get to view the magical bird of the alpine - the white-tailed ptarmigan. This small grouse becomes virtually invisible by molting to snowy white in winter and speckled brown in summer disappearing from predators and humans intruders by using their remarkable camouflage. Come learn about this phantom bird and gain an appreciation of how it survives and thrives in the harsh alpine tundra of Colorado that they call home. Speaker Bio: As an enthusiastic naturalist and wildlife field research biologist, Kat Bernier has worked with Colorado Parks and Wildlife for the past seven years. The majority of her research has been in the alpine, collecting data and answering questions about White-Tailed Ptarmigan, under the guidance of Amy Seglund, Species Conservation Coordinator for the state. While not on the job working to conserve wildlife, she loves exploring wild-lands, back-packing, wildlife watching, and all forms of skiing, in the U.S. and internationally. Naturalist Nights are brought to you through a partnership between the Wilderness Workshop, Aspen Center for Enviornmental Studies (ACES) and Roaring Fork Audubon.

With my guest today, Will Roush, Executive Director of Wilderness Workshop, a non-profit advocacy organization based in the Roaring Fork Valley, CO, we talk about the citizens movements that are required to protect our beloved back country and public lands, which are under siege in unprecedented fashion under current administrations' “energy domination” agenda. But there is another sector deeply impacting the wilderness – those who recreate in it – often loving it to death through detrimental impacts on landscapes and how this affects wildlife. Will and I discuss these impacts and how each of us can, and that the outdoor industry is stepping up to be a protector of public lands, as their business model depends on having wild places out there. Ultimately, we need education about our impacts and understand the wild is not solely our playground and entertainment, but a complex ecological bio-system upon which we all depend for life, as we know it.

Jillian interviews Karin Teague, the Executive Director of the Independence Pass Foundation, whose mission is to restore and protect the ecological, historical, and aesthetic integrity of the Independence Pass Corridor. She has also served as the President of the Board of Wilderness Workshop, as the Development Director of Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers, and as the Legal Director and Co-Founder of Public Counsel of the Rockies, a public interest law firm specializing in environmental matters. Karin is also a published nature and outdoor adventure writer and photographer, and a self-taught almost-expert on Rocky Mountain wildflowers. For more Aspen Real Life, visit aspenreallife.com

@jillian-livingston of Aspen Real Life interviews Will Roush the Conservation Director for the Wilderness Workshop. The Wilderness Workshop is the conservation watchdog of the White River National Forest and adjacent federal public lands. To find out more information or to support this organization, head to wilderness workshop.org/ (Photo taken by Ricardo Savi) Aspen Real Life can be found at aspenreallife.com/

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Non-Profit in the Spotlight: Wilderness Workshop, Part 2 by Aspen Public Radio Past Productions

Non-Profit in the Spotlight: Wilderness Workshop, Part 1 by Aspen Public Radio Past Productions