How you can help and enjoy birds this month.
Audubon Rockies
June 2019 | Audubon Rockies Newsletter
Horned Lark on May Valley Ranch, an Audubon-certified Ranch in Colorado.
Horned Lark on May Valley Ranch, an Audubon-certified Ranch in Colorado. Photo: Evan Barrientos/Audubon Rockies
An Appeal for Birds
Dear friend,

As our fiscal year comes to a close, there’s a lot to celebrate. Since last July, we trained dozens of educators in environmental education techniques. We inspired people to create backyard bird habitat across our region. We helped ranchers and beef consumers conserve precious grassland bird habitat. In Utah, we pioneered wetland bird habitat management. We fought hard for good river and sagebrush policy and connected thousands of bird-lovers to those issues.

Thank you, so much, for everything you’ve done to help our birds and natural areas. If you’d like to do one more thing (or your first!) before we close our fiscal year, please help our conservation programs continue to grow with a donation to our spring appeal. Your dollars will stay in Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah. To everyone who has already donated, thank you.

Yours in conservation,
Alison Holloran
Executive Director, Audubon Rockies
Vice President, National Audubon Society
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Bumblebee on swamp milkweed. Photo: Kristina Deckert/Audubon
Bumblebee on swamp milkweed. Photo: Kristina Deckert/Audubon
New Habitat Hero Gardens From Earth Love Gardens
Habitat Hero has partnered with Earth Love Gardens, a Coloradan company that creates garden beds, custom-size cold frames, and greenhouses. Now, they’re offering certified Habitat Hero garden designs! Want to have professional landscapers install an Audubon-certified, bird-friendly Habitat Hero garden for you?
Greater Sage-Grouse lekking on Pathfinder Ranches. Photo: Evan Barrientos/Audubon Rockies
Upcoming Events
Want to get your hands dirty restoring St. Vrain Creek? Sign up for our June 25 volunteer river project! Or is enhancing a sage-grouse lek in Wyoming more your thing? Then sign up for Pathfinder Volunteer Days on July 12-13!
News
Saline wetland at Gillmor Sanctuary. Photo: Heidi Hoven
Putting the Pieces Together
Audubon just gained management of three important properties adjacent to Gillmor Sanctuary, but it wasn’t a simple journey. Read more
Saline wetland at Gillmor Sanctuary. Photo: Heidi Hoven
Habitat Hero demonstration garden at Cheyenne Board of Public Utilities. Photo: Evan Barrientos/Audubon Rockies
Habitat Hero Garden Unveiled
Last month the mayor of Cheyenne unveiled a new Habitat Hero demonstration garden. From water savings to pollinator conservation, there’s a lot to love about it. Read more
Habitat Hero demonstration garden at Cheyenne Board of Public Utilities. Photo: Evan Barrientos/Audubon Rockies
Zoe Clemmons, Communications Intern
Welcome Zoe, Our New Intern
We’re happy to announce that Zoe Clemmons has begun working as our first communications intern! Zoe is pursuing a M.S. in public communication & technology with an emphasis in environmental communication at Colorado State University. Her past experience includes editorial work for the U.S. Forest Service and a position as a communications specialist at The Land Conservancy of McHenry County in her home state of Illinois. Zoe wrote the Habitat Hero article above. Stay tuned for more work from her!
Zoe Clemmons, Communications Intern
Audubon Rockies thanks Anadarko for supporting Habitat Hero.
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