West Slope Outdoor Volunteers

02/18/2025

Join WSOV & for a FREE 2- day Leave No Trace Level 1 Trainer Course in McInnis Canyons National Conservation Area!

This is geared towards volunteers in hope to train our community stewards in how to interact with the public and share their knowledge of LNT principals to encourage responsible recreation on public lands.

📍 Dinosaur Hill Pavillion (MCNCA)
🗓️ Thursday, February 20-Friday, February 21 (8am-5pm both days)

This course is 16 hours total—you must be present and able to attend both days to complete this course.

Sign-up at the link in bio or through our website!

06/26/2024

We are thrilled to announce that West Slope Outdoor Volunteers (WSOV) has been awarded a GOCO Stewardship Impact Grant!

With $54,983 in funding, WSOV will be able to grow volunteer stewardship efforts in Mesa, Delta, and Montrose Counties. Led by Colorado Canyons Association and our six founding partners ( ), WSOV will streamline volunteer efforts, build a skilled volunteer base, and promote collaborative stewardship projects.We are grateful to for this opportunity!

Read more at the blog post linked in bio 🔗🌿👏

05/02/2024

Big thanks to for their Willow Pole Planting training yesterday out at the Lunch Loops area!

Great volunteer turnout and representatives from and came to learn and lend a hand.

If you see some barren sticks along the stream bed there, please note they are the result of these hard working volunteers to repopulate the area with native species 🌱

Stay tuned for more trainings and events to get involved with on the website at www.westslopeoutdoorvolunteers.org 🖥️

03/28/2024

Join the Monument Stewards for their Spring kickoff event on April 17th from 10am-12pm at the Lunch Loops trailhead to kick off the 2024 Monument Stewards season🌱

Big thanks to & for all the work they do to organize these Monument Stewards!

More information can be found on our website:

www.westslopeoutdoorvolunteers.org 🖥️

02/29/2024

Spring volunteer events are just around the corner…👀🌱

has a couple of spring events posted on their website if you are ready to volunteer in your National Conservation Areas this season.

March 30th you can help celebrate the the 15th anniversary of Dominguez-Escalante as an NCA by helping them clean up the Escalante Staging Area ✨

CCA will also be hosting their annual Volunteer & Education Training event on April 9th at Edgewater Brewery so you can learn more about their volunteer program, connect with other volunteers, and how education volunteers are utilized in our annual field trips with students!

For more information and to sign-up for these events, check out the links on our website www.westslopeoutdoorvolunteers.org (link in bio 🔗)

02/22/2024

Shout out to our partners and the Grand Junction, CO Broadband ✨

The Grand Junction broadband starts on the west at the Colorado Utah border, on the north to Garfield county, east to Deb, and South to Delta. They are pleased to have the northern San Juan broadband to the south and share some members with them.

They are focused on land, restoration, wilderness, monitoring, as well as public education and awareness building.

Some of their past and ongoing projects include:

-Commenting on the proposed Resource Management Plan (RMP) for the National Forest Service covering the Grand Mesa Uncompahgre, and Gunnison National Forests
-wilderness monitoring for both the National Forest Service and the BLM field office
-cooperative letterwriting campaigns for environmental advocacy
-Stewardship projects of receding and replanting on clothes trails after collecting native seed during the summer months
-Partnering with Mount Garfield eighth graders, BLM, Colorado, Archaeological Society, and the Northern Ute Tribe for a field day, learning about the value and preservation of rock art

🗓️ Join the GJ Broadband for an upcoming event this Monday, February 26 from six to 7:30 PM where historian and explorer, Steve Allen, will be presenting,“50 years in the canyons”— about His many years investigating the Canyon country of Southern Utah

This event will be held at the Unitarian Universalist Church , 536 Ouray Ave. in Grand Junction.

For more information on great old Broads for wilderness, visit their website: www.greatoldbroads.org 🖥️

Thank you for all that you do in helping WSOV serve our community!

02/22/2024

02/15/2024

This week’s partner feature is 🧪

Eureka! McConnell science museum is a nonprofit organization that was founded by John McConnell. They operate with a small employed staff and a large group of dedicated volunteers who bring math and science to life. Their mission is to inspire a passion and respect for STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and math) in our communities.

To see more of what Eureka! Is doing in the community, visit their website at: eurekasciencemuseum.org ✨

Stay tuned for more volunteer updates from all of our partners and events at westslopeoutdoorvomunteers.org (link in bio)💻

02/07/2024

This is a break from our weekly partner features to give a big THANK YOU to our funders at the Western Colorado Community Foundation ( ) and their award from the McCary Family Fund!

Their initial funds helped make their initial concept for the stewardship collaborative a reality. We were able to organize our non-profit partners and grow this into what it is today: a resource for community members to find public lands stewardship events on the Western Slope all in one place.✨

We hope this year to continue growing and expanding our community partnership by hosting joint events, trainings, and more to the folks who are passionate about these Colorado landscapes!

To learn more about this foundation’s efforts to connect people who care with causes that matter, visit wc-cf.org.

The Western Colorado Community Foundation serves seven counties in Western Colorado, managing charitable funds for community good. Currently, the Community Foundation manages over 300 charitable funds totaling over $145 million in assets and awards over $5.5 million in grants and scholarships annually.

02/01/2024

Shoutout to our partners at Colorado National Monument Association (CNMA) ✨

The Colorado National Monument Association provides financial support to Colorado National Monument through a variety of community engagements and sales from their gift shop. Their support fosters knowledge, passion, and dedication to enable stewardship and preservation of Colorado National Monument.

By supporting Colorado National monument and engaging the community, they aim to create a healthier ecosystem within the park boundaries and far beyond.

Find out more about CMA in person, by attending the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour on February 15 and 16th at the Avalon theater in downtown Grand Junction. Tickets are available at BanffGJ.com 🎟️ 🏔️

If you are already planning to attend Banff film festival, be on the lookout for some of our other WSOV partners in attendance 👀

Visit www.coloradonma.org to find more ways to get involved with CNMA, become a member, or donate!

01/25/2024

This week we are featuring our friends at ✨

Their mission is to restore riparian (riverside) ecosystems through education, collaboration, and technical assistance.

Some of the awesome things they do:
☑️ restoring biodiversity to critical riverside ecosystems across the West by coordinating projects on the ground and leading restoration partnerships (like us👋🏻)
☑️ connecting youth to rivers with hands-on river education programming
☑️ nurturing a sense of river stewardship within our communities through their volunteer program
☑️ training river restoration professionals at their workshops and conferences (they have one coming up!)
☑️ providing restoration resources that track and share the best techniques to restore riverside ecosystems 🌱

Their annual Riparian Restoration Conference is coming up March 5-7th in Grand Junction, CO. Check out their website www.riversedgewest.org to register today!

Thank you for all that you do for the riparian corridors on the Western slope! 👏🏻