Volunteer with the BLM and You Could Win an America the Beautiful Park Pass
The Grand Junction Field Office of the Bureau of Land Management is hosting their annual Volunteer Recognition Event today at the Whitman Educational Center to honor volunteers and organizations for contributing their time and resources to helping our public lands.
This event includes the Annual Volunteer and Partnership Program year in review slide show, plus an opportunity to mingle and share light refreshments with other volunteers, partners, and BLM staff, along with Door prizes and an awards ceremony for:
- Cultural volunteer of the year
- Recreation volunteer of the year
- Renewable resources volunteer of the year
- New volunteer of the year
- Collaborative group of the year
- New volunteer group of the year
- Partner of the year
- and 7 volunteers are receiving an America the Beautiful park pass for providing at least 250 hours of service on public lands!
When:Today from 6:30 - 8:00p
Where: Museum of Western Colorado, 248 S. 4th Street in Grand Junction
Where: Museum of Western Colorado, 248 S. 4th Street in Grand Junction
Volunteers play an important role with the BLM, with over 500 hours being donated by individuals being valued at $327,831. Partner groups also donated 12,562 hosted-worker hours valued at $273,726.
This is largely work that would not have been completed without volunteers, as a matter of fact volunteers removed nearly seven tons of garbage from the public lands north of Rifle this past Saturday as part of an annual clean-up sponsored by Hi Country 4 Wheelers and White River Trail Runners.
Clean-up
Plus volunteers from both organizations and the Aspen Dirt Bike School designed and constructed a motocross track for visitors to the Bureau of Land Management’s Hubbard Mesa OHV area to use! Greg Wolfgang, outdoor recreation planner for the BLM’s Colorado River Valley Field Office said,
We hope these improvements will make this popular OHV area an even better experience for the public, and we hope they will discourage the amount of illegal dumping that also occurs in this area. We really appreciate all of the volunteer support from the local clubs, businesses, users, and local governments. These types of on-going partnerships help the BLM to provide better recreation opportunities to the public”
To find out how you can help, contact their volunteer coordinator, Fran Parker at 970 244-3031
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