Love your Public Lands!
Throughout 2021, we’re excited to celebrate our 10th birthday with YOU! Each month we’ll have a new theme and birthday wish to share. This month, we’re asking you to love your public lands and Leave No Trace. With love in the air this month, we're hoping the National Conservation Areas make it on your Valentine's list. Learn more on how to help spread the love and have the chance to win a prize!
Like all public lands, the National Conservation Areas are special, unique, and fragile places. Additionally, being in a desert environment makes many aspects of the landscape more delicate and vulnerable; plants don’t grow back easily, water is scarce, and traces are hard to erase. When recreating, it is every person’s responsibility to respect their surroundings and help steward the landscapes we are so lucky to have in our backyard.
How can you do this? Start by following the 7 Leave No Trace (LNT) principles!
Plan ahead and prepare
Travel and camp on durable surfaces
Dispose of waste properly
Leave what you find
Minimize campfire impact
Respect wildlife
Be kind and considerate to other visitors
Learn more about all 7 LNT principles here!
Show us how you practice Leave No Trace!
Next time you’re out on your public lands, show us how you practice LNT to be entered into our contest!
Get outside! Go visit and recreate in one of the National Conservation Areas.
Take a picture that demonstrates one of the 7 LNT principles. Get creative! There are a lot of different ways to respect your public lands.
Post your picture and short summary of the LNT principle on Facebook or Instagram and tag Colorado Canyons Association (@ColoradoCanyons).
Don’t have social media? Send in your picture via email to info@canyonsassociation.org.
All participants will be entered into a drawing for a chance to win a prize! Enstrom’s chocolate and Carlson Vineyards’ wine may be involved…
The winner will be announced at the end of the month - have fun!
