CNAP Volunteer Steward Program

Thank you for your interest in becoming a Volunteer Steward!

For a full opportunity description, please click here.

For an application, click here. Fill out and return to:

brian.kurzel@state.co.us or
Colorado Natural Areas Program
1313 Sherman St, Rm 618
Denver, CO 80203






We are currently seeking Volunteer Stewards for the following far-flung sites:

Colorado Natural Areas In Need of Volunteer Stewards
 SITE NAME  COUNTY  OWNER  ACRES  HIKING  ATTRIBUTES

Antero-Salt Creek

Park

SLB

8520

Moderate

Extensive high-quality grasslands, calcareous wet meadows, salt meadows, and an extreme rich fen. Together these habitats house several state and globally imperiled plant species, and provide seasonal homes for rare birds and butterflies.
Skills desired: Hiking, botany

Blue Mountain-Little Thompson Fault

Larimer

Private

282

Moderate

Includes an exposure of the Blue Mountain Fault, providing a clear example of unique geologic formations. Physaria bellii (Bell's twinpod; G2G3; S2S3) is found in two places on the property.
Skills needed: botany, general natural history

Bonny Prairie

Yuma

Bureau of Reclamation

50

Easy

Supports a remnant of the loess prairie community, an ecosystem that once covered millions of acres in the central United States. There is also a relatively lush and tall little bluestem prairie which contrasts the sparse, sandy shortgrass priarie dominating much of eastern Colorado. 
Skills needed: general natural history

Deer Gulch

Rio Blanco

BLM

1809

Difficult

Two plant species endemic to Green River shales, good quality remnants of Great Basin grassland, mixed mountain shrubland and lower montane Douglas-fir forest communities 
Skills needed: botany, hiking

Indian Springs Trace Fossil

Fremont

Private

85

Easy

Contains 25 types of trace fossils of animals from 450 million years ago in this outcrop of the Harding Formation.
Skills needed: general natural history

Lower Greasewood

Rio Blanco

BLM

205

Moderate

Relatively undisturbed pinyon-juniper woodland with significant populations of a Green River Shale endemic plant.
Skills needed: botany

Mini-Wheeler

Fremont

SLB

449

Moderate

Unique outcrops of Gribbles Park Tuff and quality montane grassland with scattered stands of aspen and montane conifers.
Skills needed: hiking

Narraguinnep

Dolores

USFS

1928

Moderate

Virgin stands of ponderosa pine and pinyon-juniper are interspersed with oak thickets and a rich diversity of other shrublands.  Recently burned in large crown fire.
Skills needed: hiking

Rajadero Canyon

Conejos

BLM/SLB

3632

Moderate

Large populations of a volcanic endemic plant in a good-quality pinyon-ponderosa/Arizona fescue savanna.
Skills needed: hiking

Shell Rock

Baba

SLB

640

Shell Rock Natural Area contains one of the largest known Colorado populations of Colorado green gentian. This site also contains a wonderful example of shortgrass prairie in good condition.
Skills needed: general natural history, botany

Trinidad KT

Las Animas

Parks

180   

Easy

Best surface exposure of Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in Raton Basin, Colorado, and possibly the world
Skills needed: general natural history

Two Buttes

Baca

Private

820

Moderate

Prominent feature represents the top of an arching dome of sedimentary rocks uplifted by an unexposed laccolith. Rare plant endemic to Colorado and  unique mammal diversity. 
Skills needed: hiking, botany

Wheeler Geologic

Mineral

USFS

640

Difficult

A mass of pinnacles and domes, some over several hundred feet tall; the geologic features occur within virgin forests of spruce & subalpine fir
Skills needed: hiking

BLM = Bureau of Land Management; DOW = Division of Wildlife; Parks = State Parks; SLB = State Land Board; TNC = The Nature Conservancy; USFS = U.S. Forest Service

 

 

 

 



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