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 |
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| SITE NAME |
COUNTY |
OWNER |
ACRES |
HIKING |
ATTRIBUTES |
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Antero-Salt Creek
|
Park
|
SLB
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8520
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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
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Indian Springs Trace Fossil
|
Fremont
|
Private
|
85
|
Easy
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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
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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
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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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