Schild: Our biggest season to date

On behalf of the Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers (RFOV) board of directors and staff, I want to extend our heartfelt gratitude to the incredible volunteers and partners who have dedicated their time to collectively steward our shared outdoors. Because of you, 2024 was our biggest season to date! With 1,993 unique volunteers combined with our pattern and RFOV staff, we contributed 13,332 hours to improve our public lands. This includes maintaining 43 miles of trail, restoring 30 acres of habitat and open space, and reducing the threat of wildfire across more than 20 acres through fire mitigation projects.

I have so much gratitude for the many hands that have contributed to making our 2024 project season a success.

While the impact of those hours is visible in the tangible mark left on our public land, there is so much contained within that hour that is impossible to quantify. Each hour contributed by our volunteers, partners, and staff is a gift of their unique strength and passion. People on our projects are the best version of themselves, giving back to the land that, in turn, nourishes them. Each of us give what we can, whether that is time spent out at a project, being a trailhead ambassador, donating to RFOV, introducing us to a new partner or volunteer, serving on a project ambassador, or living out RFOV’s mission of stewardship in our own lives.

This community is based on collaboration, a desire to contribute to a larger cause, a love for this place! When our many hands work together collectively, we are a mighty force, leaving the land better than we found it and our community enriched.

Becca Schild, executive director

Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers