January 25th, 2024 | State of the Sector | Colorado Resource Center. The theme of this year’s event is Advocates for Good: The Power of Nonprofits in Colorado. We hope you will join us along with change-makers across the state of Colorado in discovering how our organizations can form meaningful partnerships as we plan for the year ahead. The year’s State of the Sector is a hybrid event with options to attend the virtual program as well as watch parties and social mixers in Denver and Durango.
February 2nd, 2024 | Winter Walk: Sights & Sounds of Riverbend Ponds | City of Fort Collins. Explore the wildlife of wetland and the river corridor in winter. Discover how animals survive and thrive in challenging conditions while learning ways human activity can make their lives less stressful. We’ll hike about two miles beginning at the Cherly Street trailhead and looping around Wiper pond.
February 8th, 2024 | CO Native Plant Society Winter Series. The Colorado Native Plant Society will host Karen Hwang, author of the new field guide, "Wildflowers of Durango Trails," at their Winter meeting on Thursday, February 8th. The guide will describe each flower and on which Durango trail each flower can be found. She is looking forward to sharing some of her more interesting discoveries including rare plants and county records. She will discuss how to use resources such as websites, keys, specimens, and the herbarium at Fort Lewis College.
February 29th, 2024 | St. Vrain and Left Hand Water Conservancy District’s 2024 Water Symposium. Save the date!
March 5th-7th, 2024 | Riparian Restoration Conference | RiversEdge West. Save the date and call for abstracts!
April 10th, 2024 | Society of Wetland Scientists Rocky Mountain Chapter Annual Meeting. Registration open & call for abstracts
April 15th-17th, 2023 | Partners in the Outdoors | Colorado Parks & Wildlife. Save the date. The Partners in the Outdoors Conference is Colorado's foremost opportunity to cultivate common ground, explore best practices of partnering, and design collaborative solutions with diverse voices and stakeholders to conserve Colorado's outdoor heritage. Our annual conference has quickly become one of the signature events in Colorado bringing together organizations, agencies, schools, businesses and communities engaged in the future of Colorado's conservation and outdoor recreational opportunities.
May 22nd-24th, 2024 | Rocky Mountain Mining & Reclamation Conference | Mountain Studies Institute. The event will be hosted at a variety of iconic Leadville locations, including Freight, Colorado Mountain College, and Tabor Opera House. There will be a keynote and meet and greet on the evening of Wednesday, May 22nd. Thursday, May 23rd, will be technical talks followed by a reception. Lastly, a variety of tours are scheduled for Friday, May 24th.
June 5th-7th, 2023 | Western Slope Rural Philanthropy Days. Save the date. The Western Slope Rural Philanthropy Days (RPD) conference will be hosted June 5-7, 2024 in Fruita! This opportunity only occurs once every four years in the Western Slope region, serving Delta, Eagle, Garfield, Pitkin, and Mesa counties.
September 11th-13th, 2023 | San Luis Rural Philanthropy Days. Save the date.