Local group receives national Public Lands Foundation award
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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. – Grand Junction’s own Colorado Canyons Association (CCA) received the Public Lands Foundation national Landscape Stewardship Award. To honor CCA, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) invites the public to attend an award presentation on November 6, 2018, from 10 – 11 a.m., at the Grand Junction Field Office.
“It’s an incredible honor to receive this award from the Public Lands Foundation,” said Colorado Canyons Association Executive Director Joe Neuhof. “CCA continues to grow our programs in the National Conservation Areas and benefits tremendously from our close partnership with the BLM.”
Colorado Canyons Association’s mission is to foster community stewardship of BLM-managed National Conservation Lands with a focus on the Dominguez-Escalante, Gunnison Gorge and McInnis Canyons National Conservation Areas (NCAs) in western Colorado. The Public Lands Foundation recognized CCA for their youth education, volunteer and river restoration programs. Annually, CCA brings over 2,000 youth to the NCAs on land and river outdoor education adventures that meet Colorado environmental education state standards. In addition, CCA organizes thousands of volunteer hours for river cleanups, citizen science and youth education, as well as recently increasing its fundraising and projects to remove tamarisk and restore the Colorado and Gunnison rivers.
“CCA is a special group of folks that do amazing things for our community and our public lands,” said Collin Ewing, McInnis Canyons and Dominguez-Escalante NCA Manager. “Our work with CCA is the essence of shared conservation stewardship and nobody is more deserving of an award like this.”
The Grand Junction Field Office is located at 2815 H Road in Grand Junction. Light refreshments will be provided at the award ceremony. If interested in attending, please RSVP to Collin Ewing, cewing@blm.gov.
For more information, please contact Collin Ewing at (970) 244-3049 or Joe Neuhof at (970) 263-7902. To learn more about the Public Land Foundation, please visit: publicland.org.
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