GreenScene hiking crew in Acorn Creek.
One of the goals for our new GreenScene program is to provide the opportunity for folks to get out and experience some of Colorado’s natural beauty. Not only that, we want to show the effects of some of our state’s biggest environmental issues to our friends and members first-hand.
In this vein, CEC led a hike in the Acorn Creek area of the Hidden Gems Wilderness proposal, highlighting some of the reasons that this stunning scenery needs to be protected as wilderness. We had a great, fun crew join us, so big thanks to them for coming out!
The hike followed up on a get together we had, led by Kurt Kunkle our Wilderness Campaign Coordinator, in which he went over the process for designating an area as wilderness, as well as past victories and current fights.
This two-part approach is intended to provide information and education to anyone who may be interested and also show them the issues first-hand. Colorado is a beautiful state and our organization wants to take advantage of that. After all, Colorado’s beauty is our greatest recruitment tool.
On the Front Range, it is sometimes hard not to feel detached from some of the issues our state faces. Sure, we are all Coloradans, but fracking rigs aren’t going up in our backyards like they are in Battlement Mesa. Oil Shale production isn’t going to happen in the Flatirons. So it’s easy for some folks to feel unaffected by some of our state’s environmental issues. The purpose of GreenScene is to show that, yes, these issues do affect you. So many of us Coloradans have camped in a wilderness area, or skied in a National Forest, or fished downstream of an oil rig…. maybe you don’t feel the effects on a day-to-day basis but this is our state and we have to fight to protect it.
If you like to become involved in GreenScene, our next get together will be focused on natural gas fracking, one of our Colorado’s biggest, far-reaching, and most complicated issues. More details are coming so be sure to check out the GreenScene page on our website and sign up for email updates for more information.