Volunteers Needed for Workdays
Buffalo Peaks Ranch in South Park
Along with several other chapters, our Cheyenne Mountain Chapter of TU is supporting CTU’s restoration work at Buffalo Peaks Ranch in South Park. We have volunteer work days scheduled for Monday, August 22 and Saturday, September 10. The August date has been scheduled to accommodate a non-TU group that is one of our partners on this project, but TU folks are welcome to participate on that date as well.
This year, we plan to complete the installation of barbed wire fencing along the north side of the stream in order to keep the grazing lessee’s cattle out of the stream and the riparian plantings from earlier workdays. The work will be strenuous, involving digging postholes for fence corners/H-braces, installing those corners, pounding in T-posts, stretching wire, etc. All groups will be meeting at the Buffalo Peaks Ranch Buildings – North side of S. Platte River bridge on Highway 9 between Fairplay and Hartsel – at approximately 9 am each day. We expect to wrap up by about 3 pm.
Carpooling up to South Park can be arranged; contact Terry Deaton for details.
We need to complete the north side fencing this summer, so it is important that we have a good crew of volunteers participating. Please consider volunteering if you are able to do so.
If you are not familiar with this new SWA or the restoration work being done there by TU, check out the website at: http://buffalopeaks.wordpress.com/
Volunteers should wear work boots or sturdy shoes and bring gloves, hat, sunscreen, STRONG bug repellent, and a water bottle. CTU will provide lunch and water for refills.
If you can participate in this work day, please respond to Terry Deaton via our web form by clicking on his name so we will have an accurate head count in advance. If you have any questions about this opportunity or the Ranch location, contact Terry via our web form or by phone at 719-322-4494. If you can bring or supply appropriate fencing tools (posthole diggers, trenching shovel, digging bar, T-post driver, fencing or lineman’s pliers, etc.) please contact Terry about that as well.
We also have a need for at least one ATV to ferry fence posts and other materials down to the work area. Contact Terry if you can bring one for either day. Please do not bring an ATV without checking first.
Fountain Creek in Manitou Springs
As part of our chapter’s participation in Colorado Trout Unlimited’s Annual Great Colorado Rivers Cleanup, we have a cleanup day scheduled for Saturday, 17 September on Fountain Creek in Manitou Springs. We plan to cover all of the public reaches of Fountain Creek through Manitou Springs. We will meet at Soda Springs Park 9:00 am to distribute trash bags and to coordinate assignments. We should finish our cleanup work by around noon. Volunteers should bring work gloves and waders/hipboots, since we will be working in the stream as well as on both banks.
This will be a great opportunity to see all the stream restoration work that our chapter volunteers, along with our partners at Rocky Mountain Field Institute and the Fountain Creek Restoration Committee, have completed over the past few years.
If you can participate in this cleanup, please respond to Terry Deaton so we will have an accurate head count in advance. If you have any questions about this opportunity, contact Terry by phone at 719-322-4494.
Terry Deaton
VP Projects, Cheyenne Mountain Chapter, TU
