Keep Rocky’s Bears Wild! Rocky Mountain National Park’s goal is to keep black bears wild. Wild behavior includes browsing on chokecherries, clawing on downed logs to get to ants and other insects, scavenging deer and elk carcasses, and being fearful of humans. This is normal bear activity. This natural lifestyle can be interrupted if they […]
But Wait… There’s More [Conservation]: First Fall Crew Boasts Great Successes An extra seven weeks of conservation work? Count the Rocky Mountain Conservancy – Conservation Corps in! The Rocky Mountain Conservancy’s Conservation Corps hosted its inaugural extended season, starting mid-August and ending the beginning of October. The crew, aptly titled the “Fall Crew,” or the […]
Shadow Mountain Crews: For our last week, the Shadow Mountain crew hiked the South Fork loop, a 26-mile-long trail that took us up and down the mountains multiple times. It was the most challenging hike we had been on yet. Even in the superb hiking condition we were in after a summer of hiking and […]
Shadow Mountain Crew: Sunday morning was met with a warm oatmeal packet and some hot tea. Once again, we got to work with the other Shadow Mountain crew. This meant preparing the llamas (do you remember their names from last week?) and getting the tools ready. After a bumpy ride down a Forest Service road, […]
Shadow Mountain Crews This week’s hitch was filled with all things new! We got to work with the other shadow crew, camp in the front country, and had our first crew leader of the week – Danielle. The first day consisted of rounding up the llamas, Oreo and Two Socks. This is the other crews […]
Shadow Mountain Crews This week the Shadow Mountain Crew went on a surprise backcountry hitch. We were informed a couple days before hand that we were all going to go back to the Bowen Gulch trail to do intensive rock work. Once again the hike up the trail was steep and difficult, but now that […]
