Partnership Initiative

Partnering with the community provides long-term involvement in the care of open space lands. Volunteers participate in seed collecting, forestry thinning, weed pulling,  trail maintaining, and other projects.

Benefits for Your Organization

Partnering offers visibility, employee bonding, fun, moral enhancement, and rewarding educational volunteer experiences while contributing to the high quality of life and care of our open space.

“The forest restoration project was the ideal team building exercise for us. We had a great time, learned something new and were able to give back to the community.”

- Shawn Brugge, Intrado Inc., Longmont

Many Ways to Participate

• Annual Project: Create a rewarding annual event that will become a part of your organization’s culture.
• Trail Stewardship: Care for a section of a trail. Receive spring and fall project planning and trail maintenance training. Your organization’s name will appear on the open space trail sign.
• Property Stewardship: Care for an area of open space.  Our staff will work closely with your organization on your designated property performing maintenance tasks such as seed collection, wildlife improvements, weeding, structure maintenance, tree removal, and planting. A sign will acknowledge your participation.
• Longmont Fairgrounds, Farmer’s Market Improvements: Contribute to improvements such as adding bike racks, picnic tables, shaded sitting areas, benches, and pond landscaping. Your organization's name will be displayed at the Longmont Farmer’s Market. 
• Create Your Own: Work with us to create your own program. Customize the amount of time, number of participants, money donated, location and type of project.

Annual partnership event

Each fall, Alpine and Foothill partners are individually honored with framed photographs of sunflowers, acknowledging their participation in the care of almost 100,000 acres of land and 100 miles of trails.   2009 Partnership Event ReCap and Photos

Partner of the Year Award

The Partnership Award was introduced the the annual Land Conservation Awards in 2009. The Partnership Award recognizes an outstanding Alpine Partner.

The 2009 Partnership Award was given to the Boulder Mountainbike Alliance for outstanding achievement through countless volunteer hours and donated funding to complete multiple trail construction and maintenance projects.

2009 Accomplishments

• Trail Stewardship teams contributed 428 hours of volunteer service and improved 6,000 feet of trail.
   
• Property Stewardship teams contributed 986 hours toward planting 160 trees, removing 96 Russian Olives, building 26 slash piles, watering young plants, Tamarisk and Russian Olive tree removal, wrapping trees to prevent beaver damage, fence and facility maintenance work, seed collection, bat box installation and monitoring, and improvement of 1,900 feet of trail.
   
• Wildland Restoration Volunteers contract with us to recruit and manage volunteer projects. Over 2,500 hours of work resulted in 80 pounds of collected seed, 1,500 planted trees, and 5,400 hundred feet of closed social trails.

Partnership Photos

2010 Partners

• Alexander Dawson School – Prairie Partner – three days in 2009

• Amgen – Alpine Partner – Property Stewardship Program

• Backpacker Magazine – Alpine Partner - Trail Stewardship Program

• Best Buy – Alpine Partner – Property Stewardship Program

• Boulder Area Trails Coalition - Alpine Partner - Trail Stewardship Program

• Boulder County Boy Scouts - Foothills Partner – three or more consecutive years

• Boulder County Horse Association - Foothills Partner – three or more consecutive years

• Boulder Mountainbike Alliance - Alpine Partner - Trail Stewardship Program & In-kind contributions. **Awarded Partner of the Year at 2009 Land Conservation Awards!!**

• Boulder Trail Runners - Alpine Partner - Trail Stewardship Program

• CU Boulder MBA Program – Alpine Partner – Property Stewardship Program

• Friends of Twin Lakes – Foothills Partner – three or more consecutive years

• Front Range Community College – Prairie Partner – three days in 2009

• Global Leadership Academy – Foothills Partner – three or more consecutive years

• Heritage Middle School – Foothills Partner – three or more consecutive years

• Level 3 – Alpine Partner – Property Stewardship Program

• Naropa Roots – Alpine Partner – Property Stewardship Program

• Niwot Community Association – Foothills Partner – three or more consecutive years

• Oskar Blues – Prairie Partner – In-kind contribution

• Out and About (Imagine) – Prairie Partner – three days in 2009

• Platts – Foothills Partner – three or more consecutive years & financial contribution

• Redstone Cyclery - Alpine Partner - Trail Stewardship Program

• REI – Prairie Partner – In-kind contribution

• Roche Colorado – Alpine Partner – Property Stewardship Program

• Smartwool – Alpine Partner – Property Stewardship Program

• Stratus Consulting – Foothills Partner – three or more consecutive years

• Vail Resorts – Alpine Partner – Property Stewardship Program

• Volunteer Connection – Prairie Partner – In-kind contribution

• Wildland Restoration Volunteers – Alpine Partner – Property Stewardship Program

For More Information

• Download "Take Your Team Outside" brochure (2.1MB pdf)
• Read what work-project participants have said (20KB pdf)
• Contact Partnership Coordinator Karen Imbierowicz at kimbierowicz@bouldercounty.org or 303-678-6268.