SJMA Calendar 2008
of Events, Trainings and Projects
January
February
2 - Duane
Smith Presentation for SJMA's Members' Lecture Series
5 - Collaboration Skills training workshop
March
3 - Flying WILD workshop for teachers.
5 - Flying WILD workshop for teachers.
April
----Fire Education and Prevention Month
Check out http://www.southwestcoloradofires.org/
1- First Aid and CPR classes
3 - Volunteer Orientation
4-6 - Wilderness
First Responder Recertification
5 - Four Corners
Back Country Horsemens Association Tack Sale
5 - Cultural
Site Stewardship Training
18-20 - Wilderness
First Aid & WFR Recertification
18-20 - Rock Art Documentation
Class
21-26- Earth Week
26-4 - Wilderness
First Responder full course
26 - Family Trail Project
29 - SJMA
Education Volunteers Training
30 - Lightweight
Backpacking Seminar
May
---Field trips are held throughout May for teachers
and students on public lands.
Contact Gabi Morey for more information at 385-1256.
2-4 - Documentation of the Redvale CCC
Camp in Disappointment Valley
3 - Field
Seminar on Plateau Canyons & Pinon-Juniper ecosystem
8-11 - Ute Mountain Mesa Verde Birding Festival
Cortez
Cultural Center, Cortez. Contact Deb Avery 565-1151. www.utemountainmesaverdebirdingfestival.com
10 - Wilderness Information Specialist and Ghost Rider Training 8:00am-3:00pm
San
Juan Public Lands Center, Registration required. Contact Kathe
Hayes 385-1310.
10 - Old Spanish Trail Conference 9:00am-4:00pm
Center of Southwest Studies, Fort Lewis College, Durango.
Contact Ruth
Lambert 385-1267
13 - SJMA Members Only Trails
Presentation 6:00pm-8:00pm
San
Juan Public Lands Center. A slide show by Chris Schultz, USDA Forest
Service Wildlife Biologist on his hike of the Appalachian Trail in 2007
and John Peel, local author, presenting on local trails of interest.
Contact Kathe
Hayes 385-1310
15 - Visitor
Information Workshop & Ambassador Training 9:00am-1:00pm
San Juan Public Lands Center in Durango, Contact Alan
Peterson 385-1258
17- Medicinal & Edible Plant
Walk 10:00am -1:00pm.
near Haviland Lake, Contact Calida to register 759-9287
17- Four Corners Back Country Horsemen annual Spring Creek Wild Horse
Count
Contact Art Berg (970) 247-1460
29- June 1- Gunnison River to Dominquez Canyon canoe Volunteer Project with
SJMA and VOC. Trip is full. Contact www.centennialcanoe.com to
be on a waiting list.
June
5- Wilderness Information
Specialist/Ghost Rider Annual Pizza Meeting.
Contact Kathe
Hayes 385-1310
7 - Dolores River Festival.
Joe Rowell Park,
Dolores.
www.doloresriverfestival.com
7 - Needle Creek Camp set-up
Must
be a Wilderness Information Specialist.
Registration required. Contact Kathe
Hayes 385-1310.
9 - Leave No Trace Traveling Trainers Presentation
6:00pm-8:00pm
San Juan Public Lands Center. Contact Kathe
Hayes 385-1310.
10 - Geology Hike 5:00pm-8:00pm
with
Jason Hooten, Animas City Mountain Trail, Durango, Contact Gabi
Morey 385-1256
14 - Field Seminar to Ponderosa
and Mixed Conifer/Aspen Ecosystems 9:00am-2:30pm
Vallecito Lake
area. Contact Gabi Morey 385-1256
14 - Four Corners
Back Country Horsemen Packing Clinic
Contact Elizabeth Testa
970-259-1581
16-20 - Forest Service, Horse Packing Clinic & Train Trainers
Leave No Trace Course
Contact Don Kelly 970-375-3309
19 - Training Day for Durango
Mountain Resort Summer Naturalists
Purgatory, Contact Gabi
Morey 385-1256.
21-22 - How To Identify Wildflowers Saturday 9:00am-4:00pm.
Sunday 11:00am-2:00pm, $30.00 & $5.
San Juan Public Lands Center, Durango, Contact Al Schneider 882-4647 www.conps.org/southwest.html
23-28 - SJMA 'Dolores River
Explorations' Kids Camp.
9:30am-11:30am each day
Contact Gabi
Morey 385-1256.
28 - Members Only Event
- Wine & Cheese Hike with a Llama-
9:30am-4:00pm
Cost: $10/person. Purgatory. Registration
required. Contact Gabi
Morey 385-1256.
July
---San Juan Society Member, special recognition, TBA.
Contact Susan Bryson 385-1312.
12 - Pulling for Colorado weed removal on the Dolores Public Lands
Contact Kathe Hayes 385-1310.
26 - Walk, Lunch and Wine with
a Llama 9:30am-4:00pm
Cost: $25/person, $45/couple. Durango Mountain Resort. Registration
required.
Contact Gabi Morey 385-1256
28-1 - SJMA
'Biodiversified' Kids Camp 10:00am-1:00pm each day
Mancos State Park. Pre-registration
required, Contact Gabi
Morey 385-1256.
August
August Pony Up Month, fundraiser
for SJMA Education and the Wildhorses
Contact Kathe
Hayes 385-1310
2 - Field
Seminar to Sub-alpine (Spruce-fir) Ecosystem- 9:00am-3:30pm.
Registration required,
Contact Gabi Morey 385-1256
5 - SJMA Volunteer Recognition
Picnic 5:00pm-7:30pm
Chris Park,
north of Durango. Please RSVP, Kathe
Hayes 385-1310
12 - Hunter Information
Booth 8:00am-2:00pm
Colorado Division of Wildlife, Durango,
Contact Alan
Peterson 385-1258
16 - Canyon of the Ancients National Monument Volunteer
Picnic 5:00pm-7:00pm
Joe
Rowell Park, Dolores, RSVP to David Kill (970) 882-5621.
23 - Walk, Lunch
and Wine with a Llama 9:30am-4:00pm
Cost: $25/person, $45/couple. Durango Mountain Resort. Registration required.
Contact Gabi Morey 385-1256
23-29- Pine River Restoration Project
Pine River Trail, Contact Kathe
Hayes 385-1310.
September
---Field
trips are held throughout the fall for teachers and students on public
lands. Contact Gabi Morey 385-1256.
20 - Tour de Fat - 12:00pm-6:00pm
Join SJMA and New Belgium Brewing
for another Ballyhoo of Bikes and beer! This is SJMA's biggest fundraiser
of the year, so come out and support your favorite non-profit. Location
TBD. Volunteers needed. Contact Gabi Morey 385-1256
23 - National Public Lands Day
Animas City Mountain,
details TBA. Contact Kathe Hayes 385-1310
27 - National Public Lands Day
Canyons of the Ancients National
Monument. Contact Kathe Hayes 385-1310.
October
9-10 - Hunter
Information Booth 8:00am-2:00pm
Colorado Division of Wildlife, Durango, Contact Alan
Peterson 385-1258
10-11- Glade Project
with Fort
Lewis College students, Contact Kathe
Hayes 385-1310
9-12 - Durango
Heritage Celebration
Contact www.durangoheritagecelebration.org for
more information.
15-17 - Hunter
Information Booth 8:00am-2:00pm
Colorado Division of Wildlife, Durango, Contact Alan
Peterson 385-1258
30-31 - Hunter
Information Booth 8:00am-2:00pm
Colorado Division of Wildlife, Durango, Contact Alan
Peterson 385-1258
December
3-5 SJMA Staff Retreat
