I’m on the board of the Colorado Conservation Trust . I think it’s currently the most impactful environmental conservation based organization in Colorado – I am so enthusiastic about it that I merged a non-profit environmental organization that I helped start – the Front Range Alliance – into CCT last year and joined the CCT board. CCT is continuing the mission of the Front Range Alliance with the Front Range Mountain Backdrop initiative .
One of the really fun projects that CCT did last year (at the request of one of our major donors) was to hold a high school video essay contest. The winner – 10th grader Michael Beggs of Boulder High School – produced a remarkable video titled “Grasslands ”. Second place was titled “Oil and Gas Development on the Roan Plateau” and third place was “Eurasian Milfoil – A Non-Native Grass that is Polluting Colorado’s Rivers and Streams.”
If you are conservation minded, you should be pleased that we are “growing them young” here in Colorado.