Over 300 Grand County volunteers participated in National Public Lands Day
National Public Lands Day offers an opportunity for residents and visitors to give back to their favorite recreation spots. This year, volunteers signed up for outdoor projects of all ability levels around Grand County, ranging from picking up trash along U.S. Highway 40 to replacing a bridge on a beloved trail in the Arapaho National Forest.
Over 300 volunteers participated in this year’s event — a record according to Headwaters Trails Alliance.
Maire Sullivan, who handles special projects for the Headwaters Trails Alliance, gathered these statistics from this year’s volunteer day with the help of alliance partners:
By the numbers
- 300-plus volunteers
- 1,594 volunteers hours
- $53,383 cash value of volunteer hours
- 15 miles of Colorado River cleaned
- 2 1/2 miles of Fraser River cleaned
- 3/4 miles of barbed-wire fence removed from Himebaugh Open Space
- 470 feet of buck and rail fence built at Wolford OHV Play Area and Whiskey Park
- 31 feet of bridge replaced on the Challenger/Discovery Loop
- 300 feet of Green Mountain Trail rerouted in the East Troublesome Fire burn area
- 4.7 pounds of native seed gathered for future reseeding projects
- 22 garbage bags of invasive weeds removed
- 30-plus bags of trash removed from along U.S. Highway 40
National Public Lands Day is celebrated annually on the fourth Saturday of September.
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