National Public Lands Day

On this year's National Public Lands Day HCCA partnered with the BLM to host a volunteer workday at Chance Gulch near Gunnison. We had 7 community members volunteer to spend their morning restoring and preserving critical mesic meadow habitat.

Volunteers built rock baffle and wicker weir structures, which help "wet the sponge" of these meadows, allowing water to stay on the landscape longer in the season, supporting the health and resiliency of our local landscape and community.  These hand-built structures also increase vegetation growth in the arid sagebrush steppe landscape, supporting the Gunnison Sage-grouse and many other species.