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Lee Patton

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Review for Wild Connections, Inc., Florissant, CO, USA

Rating: 5 stars  

I'm adding to my 2010 review because since that time, Wild Connections has successfully helped to create an unbroken roadless area and wildlife corridor in Pike National Forest. Leading armies of volunteers, Wild Connections also healed this area, Green Mountain, after the Forest Service closed a short, steep, and disruptive jeep trail (that, after mucking a high-mountain wetland, went nowhere.) Wild Connections has also advocated for wilderness designation in Brown's Canyon and other south-central Colorado wilderness candidates; for 2013, WC is planning restoration projects around Mount Evans wilderness.

Would you volunteer for this group again?

Definitely

For the time you spent, how much of an impact did you feel your work or activity had?

Life-changing

Did the organization use your time wisely?

Very Well

Would you recommend this group to a friend?

Definitely

When was your last experience with this nonprofit?

2012

Role:  Volunteer
 
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Review for Wild Connections, Inc., Florissant, CO, USA

Rating: 5 stars  

I began as a volunteer mapper in the mid 90's, exploring roadless areas in the Pike-San Isabel National Forest. Later I helped coordinate teams of mappers in the Wildcat Canyon area of the South Platte River. I learned about the connection between roadlessness and wilderness advocacy.



Wild Connections taught me to recognize and record biodiversity and understand the role of wild life corridors while deepening my own connection to the wild lands adjacent to Denver.



In the 2000s, I have participated in Wild Connections' restoration projects, which have taken the next logical step for the organization,

from education and research to advocacy to the actual healing of trampled public wild lands.

I've personally experienced the results of this organization in...

its impact on public policy, helping to shape the direction of roadless-area protections in the national forest and other public lands. Our Wild Connections Conservation Plan, a massive and comprehensive compilation of all roadless areas in the Pike-San Isabel National Forest, has become an effective and well-known data bank for all of the forest's stakeholders.

If I had to make changes to this organization, I would...

hope it continues to seek professional organizers to manage its restoration work and wilderness advocacy.

Role:  Volunteer & I was a field researcher, restoration volunteer, editor for the Wild Connections Conservation plan, contributor and copyreader for newsletters, and information advocate at public lands meetings.
 
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