Coalition and Industry Events
By connecting outdoor industry professionals & representatives across diverse sectors, the conference is Colorado’s foremost opportunity to advance toward a shared vision of responsible and sustainable practices within Colorado's outdoor spaces.
If you plan to attend Rally 2024, we hope you will join Keep It Colorado on Friday, September 27 for happy hour and on Saturday, September 28 for coffee and light breakfast.
Keep It Colorado will present a panel, “The Nature of Community-centered Conservation,” at the 2024 Partners in the Outdoors Conference alongside its partners — highlighting the initiatives of land trusts and their partners to engage more people in conservation, and why that's important to Colorado's future.
Keep It Colorado will honor and celebrate 9 Conservation Heroes and several photographers submitting photos for our Colorado the Beautiful: A Tapestry of Photos Gallery Exhibit.
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This will be a unique opportunity to hear from land trusts and public agencies about what it takes to build successful partnerships for conservation initiatives. Our hope is to spark ideas for future projects, celebrate conservation achievements, and inspire more collaboration. This event is for Keep It Colorado members and partners - including other interested public agencies outside of the coalition.
This year's conference theme and guiding question will be:
How do we ensure that both outdoor recreation and conservation thrive amidst a changing Colorado?
What has conservation done for you lately? You care about what makes Colorado special: our landscapes, our wildlife, our lifestyle... our future. Now's your chance to hear from a few land trusts about their work in action! This FREE virtual event will showcase initiatives that illustrate the many ways conservation benefits all life in Colorado. Bring your beverage of choice and prepare to be intrigued!
Colorado Open Space Alliance will be holding its annual conference in-person this year! Keep It Colorado is a proud sponsor.
At this year's virtual conference, CPW will continue its efforts to advance the priorities identified in Colorado's Statewide Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan (SCORP) while also supporting Colorado's Outdoor Principles. This is a multi-week event from late April through June.
Land Trust Alliance is hosting its annual Advocacy Days event virtually this year. LTA invites the staff, board members and volunteers of Alliance land trust members to participate in this complimentary and virtual event to make a significant difference in land conservation without even shaking anyone's hand.
Keep It Colorado will present "Real Estate Pressures on Private Land Conservation in the COVID-19 Era" alongside several of our partners, including Patrick Gardner of The Trust for Public Land, Jeffrey Boring of Estes Valley Land Trust, Jake Jones of Crested Butte Land Trust and others.
As land trusts conserve private land, they also protect water rights. Some of Colorado's land trusts are going beyond the parcel-by-parcel approach to conservation and are tackling big water challenges in a regional way. Join Water Education Colorado, Keep It Colorado, Palmer Land Conservancy and Colorado Open Lands for this webinar.
Rally is the exciting annual gathering of nearly 2,000 inspired and passionate land conservation practitioners from the US, Canada, South America and beyond, who are dedicated to conserving cherished places in local communities. Rally will be virtual this year.
The Salazar Center for North American Conservation’s 2020 International Symposium on Conservation Impact will highlight best-in-class examples in North American cities of enhancing natural systems to improve community health and support climate resilience.
Watch our panel presentation at Partners in the Outdoors’ virtual conference June 4. Melissa Daruna, our executive director, will moderate the panel, “What has private land conservation done for you lately?” with panelists from Crested Butte Land Trust, Eagle Valley Land Trust, Colorado West Land Trust and Aspen Valley Land Trust.
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