Organizations Filed Purposes:
To enhance personal and community stewardship of natural, cultural and heritage resources on public and other lands in Southwest Colorado through interpretation, information, education and participation.
West Regional Wildfire Council (WRWC) was established to support interagency efforts to develop and implement plans to better mitigate the threat of catastropic wildland fire to communities and natural resources in Western Colorado. One key objective is to promote wildfire preparation, prevention and mitigation education. The WRWC has conducted 4600 home assessments this year. The assessments provide the homeowner a list of actions specific to their property that, if implemented, will help reduce the properties overall wildfire risk.
Visitor Centers - to man 13 US Forest Service and 1 Bureau of Land Management offices with persons and materials to educate, assist, inform and direct visitors about the public lands available in the area and the proper use of those lands. Also host, in conjunction with Colorado Department of Wildlife, hunter information booths during hunting season approx 800 hunters were informed. Also work with the State of Colorado to provide search and rescue cards to persons going into the back country. There were approx 140,000 visitors who were assisted by the visitor information specialists.
Outdoor Volunteers is a program to recruit, train and coordinate a core of volunteers. These volunteers do a variety of jobs including but not limited to trail information specialists, wilderness information specialists, adopt a trial maintenance work, hunter information specialists, wild horse herd monitoring, adopt a public lands road, and campsite restoration. There were over 3,950 volunteer hours.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Frank Viehmann | Treasurer | 10 | $0 |
| Trevor Woods | Secretary | 10 | $0 |
| Ashley Schmidt | Vice President | 10 | $0 |
| Ben Rockis | President | 10 | $0 |
| Jen Lacroix | Member at Large | 5 | $0 |
| Kelly Rubin | Member at Large | 5 | $0 |
| Tyler Holland | Member at Large | 5 | $0 |
| Carey Carlson | Member at Large | 5 | $0 |
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