Every Friday, we post ways that you can contribute to making our region a greener place, including events, community science projects, jobs, internships, scholarships, and direct actions. If you have something you would like included in the next round-up, please email Chris at info@rockymountainwild.org.
Featured Environmental Actions, Events, and Opportunities
We won! Court strikes down Wyoming National Grassland plan to kill prairie dogs, eliminate black-footed ferret restoration.
“The Forest Service should be ashamed of their plan to use shooting, poisoning, and unmitigated plague outbreaks to crush populations of native wildlife for the benefit of livestock grazing and local ranchers,” said Matt Sandler, Legal Director with Rocky Mountain Wild. “We are pleased that the Court has held the Forest Service to its duty to consider how its actions will impact species, especially the federally endangered black-footed ferret and the agency-listed sensitive species black-tailed prairie dog.”
Protect piping plover, mule deer, and whitetail deer in Montana!
Montana Bureau of Land Management April 2025 Oil and Gas Lease Sale Draft Environmental Assessment (EA) is out. Paige’s screen shows that there are parcels in piping plover critical habitat, and in mule deer and whitetail deer winter distribution areas. Please take our resources to submit your comments to get affected parcels removed ahead of the December 20 deadline.
Join the Nature Awaits Movement!
Outdoor equity funds help ensure that everyone, everywhere, can access nature. The Wilderness Society launched a campaign to encourage state and federal lawmakers to increase funding to local organizations across the country working to get more people outside.
Speak Out Against the Development at Wolf Creek Pass
Help us tell the developers and decision-makers why building a “village” for 10,000 people at Wolf Creek Pass is a bad idea and the wrong choice for our community and state.
Your statement can help us stop the destruction of this incredible natural resource.
Tell Congress to protect taxpayers and stop reckless attacks on the oil and gas rule!
The Bureau of Land Management recently finalized new oil and gas reforms to hold oil and gas companies accountable for cleaning up messes they make on public lands, protect taxpayers, and reduce harmful impacts to public lands. But now, those reforms are under attack from some politicians who want to boost corporations’ profits at taxpayers’ expense.
White-nose syndrome detected in a Colorado bat. Here’s how you can help.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife confirmed on Monday, April 24, 2023 that a bat infected with white-nose syndrome was found in Colorado for the first time. Finding out where bats are roosting, and monitoring bat populations through Colorado Bat Watch can help experts and officials respond to WNS in Colorado.
Organizations in Colorado Working Towards Equity in the Outdoors
- Adaptive Sports Center – enhancing the quality of life of people with disabilities through exceptional outdoor adventure.
- Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center – providing adaptive sports programs to individuals including adaptive winter ski and snowboard programs at Breckenridge, Keystone, and Copper Mountain Ski Resorts, and summer programs on local rivers, lakes, bike paths, and an adaptive ropes course.
- Colorado Blackpackers – providing gear, outdoor excursions, and outdoor education for free or at subsidized costs and connecting participants with volunteer opportunities, internships, jobs, and post-secondary education resources to create a pipeline from outdoor recreation to outdoor industry careers.
- Colorado Gone Hiking – creating an inclusive community that focuses on starting a love of hiking and nature.
- Colorado Treks – breaking barriers to outdoor experiences by providing accessible and enriching adventures in nature for Colorado’s diverse communities, particularly youth and families, fostering a lifelong connection to the healing power of the outdoors.
- Environmental Learning for Kids (ELK) – reaching out to students who have been traditionally overlooked and under-encouraged in science and science-related careers, most notably, youth of color, LGBTIQA2+, and girls.
- Green Latinos – convening a broad coalition of Latino leaders committed to addressing national, regional, and local environmental, natural resources, and conservation issues that significantly affect the health and welfare of the U.S. Latino community.
- Latino Outdoors Colorado – inspiring, connecting, and engaging Latino communities in the outdoors and embracing cultura y familia as part of the outdoor narrative, ensuring our history, heritage, and leadership are valued and represented.
- LGBT Outdoors Colorado – getting LGBTQ+ community outdoors, creating safe spaces, and promoting diversity among the outdoor industry.
- Native Womens Wilderness – inspiring and raising the voices of Native women in the outdoor realm to encourage a healthy lifestyle within the wilderness and provide an education of the Ancestral Lands and its people.
- Next 100 Colorado – committed to the establishment of a just and inclusive parks and public lands system.
- Outdoor Asian Colorado – creating a diverse and inclusive community of Asian and Pacific Islands in the outdoors.
- Outdoorist Oath – an action-based commitment to planet, inclusion, and adventure. It offers tools/education for inquiry, a shareable education model, and the hub for a community that cares to build a better future.
- Rising Routes – elevating diverse communities and collaborating with partners to spark public action toward social and environmental resilience.
- Women’s Wilderness – creating space for girls, women, and nonbinary people of all ages and backgrounds to find their place, their voice, and their power in the outdoors.
In-Person Events
For those who feel safe, here are some events happening in person. All locations are in Colorado unless indicated otherwise.
- 1/8 Carbondale – Terrible Beauty: Reckoning with Climate Complicity and Rediscovering Our Soul with Auden Schendler. There’s a terrible beauty in this world. There are things we love beyond words—our children, our community, special places in the natural world—and yet all of those things are threatened by climate change. And yet our actions in response to that threat tend to be token: many of us don’t even vote. After a divisive presidential election, and at the eleventh hour, how do we grapple with climate change, and use our humanity and aspirations as a way to propel us forward?
- 1/9 Aspen – Terrible Beauty: Reckoning with Climate Complicity and Rediscovering Our Soul with Auden Schendler. There’s a terrible beauty in this world. There are things we love beyond words—our children, our community, special places in the natural world—and yet all of those things are threatened by climate change. And yet our actions in response to that threat tend to be token: many of us don’t even vote. After a divisive presidential election, and at the eleventh hour, how do we grapple with climate change, and use our humanity and aspirations as a way to propel us forward?
- 1/11 Salt Lake City, UT – Standing Together: Land, Love, & Hope Rally for Public Lands. Utahns love protected public lands, and we’re letting our elected officials know it! Please join fellow community members, activists, and environmental organizations for a rally that will leave you feeling empowered and inspired. Your presence will help demonstrate unwavering local support for protected public lands and wild places across Utah, especially Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments. Speaker announcements and additional details to come. Register to let us know you’ll be there and invite others who love public lands!
- 1/22 Carbondale – Beavers are For Birds with Delia Malone. Bird populations are declining across North America primarily due to habitat loss. Beaver can help reverse those declines! Find out how you can help Roaring Fork Audubon help beaver to help birds.
- 1/23 Aspen – Beavers are For Birds with Delia Malone. Bird populations are declining across North America primarily due to habitat loss. Beaver can help reverse those declines! Find out how you can help Roaring Fork Audubon help beaver to help birds.
- 1/24 Denver – Understanding Systems of Oppression & Building Allyship for Org Change. In today’s diverse and evolving workplace, understanding how systems of oppression impact individuals and organizations is essential for fostering a more inclusive environment. This interactive training session provides an in-depth exploration of how prejudice combined with institutional power creates systemic barriers that discriminate against certain groups while privileging others. Participants will examine the four levels of oppression—individual, interpersonal, institutional, and structural—and learn how these manifest within their own organization.
- 2/19 Carbondale – Wildland Recreation and Ecological Disturbance: Recreation and Public Land Management Implications for Western Colorado with Christopher Monz. Wildland recreation provides many societal and personal benefits but if left unmanaged can also result in undesirable impacts to ecological conditions. The field of recreation ecology investigates the relationships between recreation use and natural resource conditions and the knowledge from scientific studies forms the basis for developing appropriate management strategies and policy. This talk will present a synthesis of recreation ecology knowledge, a discussion of the relationship between recreation use and resulting ecological impact, and implications for wildland visitor use management for western Colorado.
- 2/20 Aspen – Wildland Recreation and Ecological Disturbance: Recreation and Public Land Management Implications for Western Colorado with Christopher Monz. Wildland recreation provides many societal and personal benefits but if left unmanaged can also result in undesirable impacts to ecological conditions. The field of recreation ecology investigates the relationships between recreation use and natural resource conditions and the knowledge from scientific studies forms the basis for developing appropriate management strategies and policy. This talk will present a synthesis of recreation ecology knowledge, a discussion of the relationship between recreation use and resulting ecological impact, and implications for wildland visitor use management for western Colorado.
- 2/22 Leadville – Nuestro Legado 2025 Outdoor Equity Summit. The Outdoor Equity Summit will bring together professionals from the outdoor industry and the local Latine community as well as other underrepresented groups for a day of shared learning and growth. With the goal of creating a more inclusive, diverse, and equitable outdoor industry, the voices and experiences of marginalized populations will be uplifted and participants will have an opportunity to strategize ways to address inequities within the outdoor recreation industry. Topics will include the history of inequity in the outdoor recreation and environmental movement, cultivation of a sense of belonging in the outdoors, and authentic inclusion of queer, BIPOC, and alternatively- abled individuals in both the outdoor industry and the broader outdoor community.
- 3/5 Carbondale – Untrammeling the Wilderness: Restoring Natural Conditions Through the Return of Human-ignited Fire with Clare Boerigter and Jonathan Coop. Historical and contemporary policies and practices have resulted in over a century of fire exclusion across much of the US. Within designated wilderness areas, the exclusion of fire constitutes a fundamental and ubiquitous act of trammeling. Here we present a framework assessing the substantial, long-term, and negative effects of fire exclusion on the natural conditions of fire-adapted wilderness ecosystems, including unnatural fuel loads and anomalously severe fires, compounded by a warmer and drier climate. To untrammel more than a century of fire exclusion, human-ignited fire may be critical to restoring the natural character of fire-adapted wilderness landscapes while also supporting ecocultural restoration efforts sought by Indigenous peoples.
- 3/6 Aspen – Untrammeling the Wilderness: Restoring Natural Conditions Through the Return of Human-ignited Fire with Clare Boerigter and Jonathan Coop. Historical and contemporary policies and practices have resulted in over a century of fire exclusion across much of the US. Within designated wilderness areas, the exclusion of fire constitutes a fundamental and ubiquitous act of trammeling. Here we present a framework assessing the substantial, long-term, and negative effects of fire exclusion on the natural conditions of fire-adapted wilderness ecosystems, including unnatural fuel loads and anomalously severe fires, compounded by a warmer and drier climate. To untrammel more than a century of fire exclusion, human-ignited fire may be critical to restoring the natural character of fire-adapted wilderness landscapes while also supporting ecocultural restoration efforts sought by Indigenous peoples.
- 3/7-8 Denver – No Man’s Land Film Festival. As the premier all-women + genderqueer adventure film festival, No Man’s Land Film Festival has celebrated the full scope of athletes and adventurers by un-defining femininity in adventure, sport, conservation, and film since 2015. Based out of Denver, CO, NMLFF meets a need and desire to highlight and connect women + gender-nonconforming communities in pursuit of the radical.
- 3/8 Fort Collins – 2025 Landscaping with Colorado Native Plants Conference. On March 8, 2025, the Landscaping with Colorado Native Plants Conference will offer a full day of educational programming promoting the cultivation and maintenance of native plants in the landscape. The conference theme is Beyond the Box – Growing a culture of native plant landscaping and the event will be held at Colorado State University in Fort Collins.
Virtual Events
- 12/20 – Sacred Cedar: Healing and Ancestral Wisdom. Hosted by Yam Vallis, Seeding Sovereignty’s Mutual Aid Program Manager, and tahnee simone, Spiritual worker and founder of SacredSkin Craftworks + Spiritual Arts. We’ll gather to honor the cedar tree’s sacred role in AfroIndigenous traditions. Known as a tree of protection, healing, and connection to the ancestors, cedar offers profound lessons on resilience and spiritual grounding. This workshop includes a special solstice celebration gathering, where we’ll reflect on the season’s transitions and reconnect with our roots through ceremony, storytelling, and hands-on herbal crafting. Together, we’ll celebrate the wisdom of cedar and its timeless ability to nurture body, mind, and spirit.
- 1/15 – Online Legislative Preview. As we gear up for the legislative session, we want to share with you, our supporters, all the incredible things we will be working on over the next few months during the legislative session. Join us for one of two (or both) legislative preview events and meet our policy team, learn about their goals for the 2025 legislative session, what to look out for from the legislature, and opportunities for you to get involved!
- 3/8 – No Man’s Land Film Festival On-Demand. We know traveling to Denver, CO isn’t in the cards for everyone. That’s why we’ve committed to offering our Denver programming (including panel discussions, speakers, and additional performances) to our community worldwide. If you can’t join us for year 10, we’ll bring the party to you. As the premier all-women + genderqueer adventure film festival, No Man’s Land Film Festival has celebrated the full scope of athletes and adventurers by un-defining femininity in adventure, sport, conservation, and film since 2015. Based out of Denver, CO, NMLFF meets a need and desire to highlight and connect women + gender-nonconforming communities in pursuit of the radical.
Community Science Projects
Colorado Pika Patrol
The Colorado Pika Project is a research project implemented by community scientists across Colorado. Through long-term monitoring of pika populations, we are not only providing useful data to researchers and land managers, but we are doing so in a way that educates and engages Coloradans in conservation and the local impacts of climate change.
Pika Patrol App
Can’t commit to the Colorado Pika Patrol project? The Pika Patrol App allows you to record observations of American pikas wherever you find them!
Colorado Corridors Project
Colorado Corridors Project remote-triggered cameras collect tens of thousands of photos each year in an attempt to make a case for building an overpass for wildlife along the I-70 mountain corridor. Because of this overwhelming data, they need help identifying the wildlife you see in these photos. With your help, they can process and analyze the data much faster than if they did it on their own.
Colorado Bat Watch
Colorado Bat Watch was developed by Rocky Mountain Wild in collaboration with bat experts from the U.S. Forest Service, Colorado Parks and Wildlife, Colorado Natural Heritage Program, and the North American Bat Monitoring Program. This program recruits and engages community scientists to collect data that will enable these agencies to monitor bat species over time and better understand the impacts of white-nose syndrome and other threats on local bat populations.
Go Big! Central Colorado Bighorn Sheep Survey
The Central Colorado Bighorn Sheep Survey engages the community in recording observations of Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep, domestic sheep, and domestic goats in Central Colorado. The data collected by volunteers participating in the project will inform conservation strategies for Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep in Central Colorado.
Join Denver Zoo’s Boreal Toad Conservation Team
In the summer months, volunteer community scientists on the Boreal Toad Conservation Team help us to search the mountain wetlands of Colorado for this hard-to-find amphibian. The data us and our volunteers gather in this projects informs CPW’s management of boreal toads, identifies future sites for wild reintroduction, and uncovers unknown populations (and we hope even ‘super-toads’ that may have natural resistance to chytrid fungus).
Join Audubon as a Climate Watch community scientist
Explore how North American birds are responding to climate change. This innovative community-science program enlists volunteer birders across North America to count certain bluebirds and nuthatches in the same place (or places) twice each year. By sticking to a scientific protocol and sharing their results, these community scientists help track whether birds are moving in accordance with projections from Audubon’s climate models.
Join Bumble Bee Watch
Volunteers needed to submit photos or videos of bumble bee nest sightings. The bumble bee nest sighting can come from anywhere within North America. An ideal sighting would include an image of the bumble bee (to determine the species), a GPS location (to be used in future habitat analyses), a description of the location and materials of the nest (i.e. in my garden, underground or in a woodpile), and, if possible, a video of the nest, surroundings, and activity.
Join Sheep Mountain Alliance in monitoring local ecology and wildlife
Sheep Mountain Alliance is working with local conservation partners to broaden our offerings of citizen science programs. In many ways, citizen science is an ideal activity for physical distancing, so we are hoping to start a pilot program this summer.
Jobs, Internships, and Fellowships
Here are some job and internship openings in the environmental field: (For equity reasons, we only post job postings with transparent salary ranges). Colorado’s Equal Pay for Equal Work Act went into effect on January 1, 2021 and requires that pay rates or ranges in job postings that will be or could be done in Colorado (including remote work) be posted. Colorado’s minimum wage is currently $14.42. The City of Denver’s minimum wage is $18.29. Colorado’s minimum salary for exempt workers is $55,000.
Positions are in Colorado or remote opportunities unless otherwise stated.
A huge thank you to Ms. Platt’s elementary school students who learned of this webpage and wanted to provide this resource on green careers to all our job seekers! Check out: “Guide to Green Careers.”
Job List Sites to Check
Other Job Postings (Jobs that are new this week are highlighted in green)
- The Nature Conservancy is seeking a Colorado and Utah Contracts & Agreements Specialist. In this role you will provide excellent customer service to project managers to help us to further our conservation goals, projects and programs. You will provide an efficient and timely contracting process, help manage organizational risk, and assist with agreement negotiations as needed. You will be trained to become a TNC Certified Contracts Specialist and, once certified, will provide training and education for staff about the agreement process. The salary range for this position is $60,500-78,500. Applications are due December 30.
- Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado is seeking a Seasonal Field Projects Coordinator. This job is a great opportunity for someone who is looking to grow their leadership skills, travel state-wide leading hands-on environmental stewardship projects, and to learn technical skills in trail work, ecological restoration, forestry, and others. VOC’s Seasonal Field Projects Coordinators meet great people dedicated to taking care of Colorado’s natural resources and build their professional network in the outdoor stewardship industry. This Seasonal Field Projects Coordinator is a full-time, term limited, non-exempt position that reports to VOC’s Field Programs Manager. This position works within the VOC program team and closely with other project staff positions to provide professional project management, logistical support, and volunteer leadership coordination on VOC volunteer projects both in the office and in the field. This position presents a good opportunity for someone who would enjoy a balance of both fieldwork and office work coordinating projects with approximately a 50-50% split. Compensation is $20.50-21.50/hr. Applications are due at midnight on January 1.
- The Yale School of the Environment is seeking Environmental Fellows. This is a 12-week paid summer fellowship that seeks to diversify the environmental field by cultivating the career aspirations of master’s and doctoral students from historically underrepresented groups and connecting them to work opportunities in environmental nonprofits, grantmakers, and government sectors. The base stipend for this position is $15k. The priority application deadline is Sunday, December 8, at 11:59 p.m. EST. Applications received by this date will receive priority review. The application closes on January 7, at 11:59 EST.
- Sageland Collaborative is seeking a Riverscape Restoration Project Manager & Field Coordinator in Salt Lake City, UT. The Riverscape Restoration Project Manager & Field Coordinator will work in our Salt Lake City office with other staff to execute Sageland Collaborative’s Riverscape Restoration Program. The Project Manager & Field Coordinator will also support other conservation projects and organizational activities. The salary for this position is $56,056-63,756. Applications are due January 10.
- Sageland Collaborative is seeking a Development Director in Salt Lake City, UT. This position is ideal for a results-driven, well-organized development leader who excels in relationship building. The Development Director must have a passion for our work that is in service of wildlife, land, and our community. Our development and fundraising activities are currently managed by the Executive Director and our Communications Specialist. This role will consolidate the position and allow us to improve our outcomes and implement our new Strategic Plan. The Development Director will have support from the Executive Director and a team of skilled staff who add significant capacity in our grantmaking and grant reporting. The Development Director will work in our Salt Lake City office with other staff to execute Sageland Collaborative’s Strategic Plan and fundraising goals. The salary range for this position is $76,856-92,456. Applications are due January 17.
- Coalitions & Collaboratives are seeking a Clear Creek Watershed Coordinator. The Watershed Coordinator serves as the primary facilitator and core staff person for partnership-based management and stewardship in the Clear Creek watershed. The position requires building strong relationships with a wide range of partner organizations, landowners, and agencies, and becoming familiar with the history, characteristics and issues in the Clear Creek watershed. The position also requires extensive experience and knowledge in equitable partnership building and collaborative governance and processes. CCWFHP is an affiliate of COCO. This position will be hired and managed through COCO as they are the fiscal agent for CCWFHP. Compensation for this position is $32-34/hr, 30 hours per week. This position is open until filled.
- Harvest of All First Nations Team is seeking a part-time, contracted Grant Writer and Fundraising Advisor. This position is responsible for a comprehensive grant and fundraising strategy that advances the financial sustainability of the organization. This includes institutional support research, submission and relationships building with private, public and philanthropic partners across the Boulder/Denver/Front Range area and beyond. In addition to fundraising campaigns and sponsorship strategies that complement intentional giving. The Grant Writer and Fundraiser is expected to write realistic, timely and successful applications and proposals which uplifts the organizations decolonial praxis and cultural essence of the programs and vision. This is a remote position that will require the contractor to attend relevant meetings with corresponding team members. The pay for this position is $25/hr for 15-30 hours per week. This position is open until filled.
- HECHO is seeking a Director who will be primarily responsible for cultivating and growing a larger, more effective HCLC – HECHO’s network of Hispanic elected, appointed, and community leaders who elevate the importance of conserving public lands and water for future generations. With support and guidance from the Executive Director, the HCLC Director will lead the strategic expansion of the HCLC and increase levels of engagement and mobilization of HCLC members in advocacy campaigns, policy initiatives, and program activities. This full-time position will drive efforts to expand HCLC membership and improve membership satisfaction by enhancing the suite of tools and resources provided to members. The Director also will supervise staff and/or oversee the work of contractors. The salary range for this position is $85-95k. This position is open until filled.
- National Wildlife Federation is seeking a Director of Affiliate Leadership. In this position, you will foster/ensure leadership growth among our 52 Affiliates that comprise the Federation and the national organization, helping position Affiliates as influential and effective voices within the Federation and the broader conservation movement. You will play a critical role in strengthening the capacity, skill, diversity and experience of Affiliate leaders and other conservation leaders across the Federation as an essential part of implementing NWF’s strategic plan and One Federation Foundation. As part of that capacity building, you will have a lead role in the planning of the Federation’s Annual Meeting. You will also provide senior level strategy around key policy priorities shared by NWF and our Affiliates. The salary range for this position is $82-95k. This position will remain open until filled.
- National Wildlife Federation is seeking a Director of Tribal Leadership Programs. The Director of Tribal Leadership Programs is a joint position between the NWF and the Water & Tribes Initiative (WTI). The Indigenous Women’s Leadership Network (IWLN) is a leadership program of the WTI. It was launched in 2021 and is a core component of WTI’s portfolio to enhance Tribal capacity to manage water and engage in water policy discussion in the Colorado River Basin. NWF launched the Colorado River Indigenous Youth Advisory Council (CRIYAC) in 2024 as a mentorship and leadership program for youth and young adults (ages 18-25) who desire to protect the Colorado River and serve young adults in their journeys towards connecting, learning about, and being a voice for the Colorado River and their Tribal communities. Working closely with the Senior Director of Tribal Partnerships and Policy, the Tribal Leadership Programs Director is primarily responsible for leading and collaborating with NWF, WTI, and IWLN staff to advance the missions of the CRIYAC and IWLN. The Tribal Leadership Programs Director will model the principles and values of NWF’s Tribal and Indigenous Partnerships Enhancement Strategy (TIPES) and Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC). The salary range for this position is $85-100k. This position is open until filled.
- Boulder Associates is seeking a Sustainability Specialist to join their growing firm and work directly with their Director of Sustainable Design to drive sustainability initiatives across the firm. Their ideal candidate will be based within a commutable range of the Boulder, CO area and be willing to travel periodically to their studios across the country. As a Sustainable Design Specialist, you will be actively involved in LEED certification administration and coordination, project analytics, and staff education. The salary for this position is $80k. This position is open until filled.
- Defenders of Wildlife is seeking a Vice President, Land and Habitat Conservation. The Vice President for Land and Habitat Conservation leads Defenders’ national policy work to conserve federal and private lands vital to maintaining and recovering this nation’s biodiversity. The Vice President develops and oversees policy initiatives designed to protect, connect, and restore federal lands critical to imperiled species with an eye to long-term transformation of federal lands systems for biodiversity. Current work focuses on the National Wildlife Refuge System, National Forest System, and National System of Public Lands. The Vice President also leads Defenders’ work to bolster and accelerate private land conservation through national-level administrative and legislative advocacy. These programs involve a wide range of policy, legal, advocacy communications, and scientific strategies to conserve wildlife. The salary range for this position is $143-158k. This position is open until filled.
- ERO is seeking a Biologist II, Natural Resources-Durango or Grand Junction, Colorado. ERO is looking for an enthusiastic and experienced biologist/ecologist with an emphasis on the Endangered Species Act, wetland ecology and mitigation, botany, and CWA Section 404 permitting. Primary duties include vegetation community and rare plant surveys, sensitive species habitat assessments, migratory bird and raptor surveys, and/or wetland delineation and CWA Section 404 permitting. Pay range of $62,000 to $78,000 annually. This position is open until filled.
- ERO is hiring a Project Environmental Planner. The Project Environmental Planner/Project Manager requires a broad overall understanding of environmental regulations including NEPA, Endangered Species Act (ESA), and Clean Water Act (CWA) regulations as well as the relationship among them. The Project Environmental Planner is knowledgeable in and has experience managing small- and large-scale projects most often related to NEPA analyses and land and resource planning projects involving complex resource issues, agency relationships, and stakeholder dynamics. Duties for this position typically include performance and oversight of teams performing a full range of environmental analyses. Salary position with pay range of $80,000 to $100,000 annually. This position is open until filled.
- ERO is hiring a Senior Biologist, Natural Resources. The Senior Biologist will be responsible for undertaking multiple project responsibilities, including field direction and project management, by applying a full suite of technical skills in natural resource management. Salary position with a pay range of $85,000 to $100,000. This position is open until filled.
- Growing Gardens is seeking a seasonal Environmental Educator. The Environmental Educator contributes to planning and teaching our dynamic farm-based programs including Field Trips, Class Visits, School Day Off Programs, and Summer Camp. Compensation is $20-22.50/hr. The position will remain open until filled.
- Harvest of All First Nations is seeking a Food Justice & Sovereignty Program Weaver. The FJS Program Weaver will be a part time contractor position with the flexibility to work remotely and independently, while also helping connect with various BIPOC communities. This position will help to structure, develop and strategize program planning for the best interests of the FJS Program and organization as a whole. The Program Weaver position will work along with collaborators and partners that are already doing food justice community work. This contractor will increase participation engagement while strengthening and developing the collaborations and network with other grassroots organizations and/or government agencies in place through agricultural, cultural, educational, and gardening rural/urban projects. The best candidate must be bilingual – English and Spanish. The rate of compensation varies seasonally: $30/hour for the low season (Nov-March) and $32.50/hour for the high season (April-Oct). This position is open until filled.
- Harvest of All First Nations is seeking a System and Operations Coordinator. This role provides direct support to the Chief Executive Director (CED) and the entire organization. Responsibilities include developing, maintaining, and overseeing the implementation of systems using supportive tools to create visual representations, such as graphics, non-hierarchical structural maps, contract reviews, MOUs, and resource management. The Systems Operations Coordinator (SOC) is also tasked with developing Indigenous non-hierarchical models that cater to various learning styles. A solid understanding of equity concepts aligning with the organization’s mission and vision is essential. Ensure effective communication of systems throughout the team. Additionally, the SOC assists the CED and Admin team in conducting in-depth budget and financial analyses. The position emphasizes Cultural Stewardship in all project development and requires its application in system creation. This is a remote position that will require the contractor to attend relevant remote meetings with corresponding team members. The pay for this position is $32.50/hr for up to 30 hours per week. This position is open until filled.
- Trout Unlimited is seeking a Front Range Abandoned Mine Lands Project Manager. This is an exciting opportunity to join Trout Unlimited and use your talents to improve water quality and fisheries in Colorado watersheds impacted by historic hardrock mining. TU is hiring a self-motivated and competent person to facilitate and execute abandoned mine land reclamation and stream restoration projects in front-range watersheds across Colorado. This project manager will take projects from start to finish, developing project concepts, obtaining project funding, managing project implementation, and completing grant/funder reports. The salary range for this position is $60-70k. This position will remain open until filled.
- Trout Unlimited is seeking a Northern Front Range Project Manager. The position will primarily support post-fire watershed restoration efforts in the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests. The position will also develop and implement other restoration projects across the Northern Front Range. Projects will include the removal of barriers for fish and aquatic organisms, infrastructure improvements, water quality assessments, and implementing form and process-based stream restoration at a watershed scale. The project manager will work cooperatively with partners of diverse backgrounds and interests. The project manager will be expected to secure grants and raise funds to cover project costs. Duties will also include active and effective participation in stakeholder groups to produce positive outcomes for coldwater fisheries. The salary range for this position is $60-75k. This position is open until filled.
- Western Energy Project is seeking a Campaign Director. The Campaign Director, a member of the organization’s leadership team, will work closely with the WEP Executive Director, WEP policy staff, and partners located across the Inter-mountain West and in Washington, DC, to develop and implement successful campaigns to secure and defend landscape protections and policy changes, and to advance related efforts concerning the federal onshore oil and gas program. The Campaign Director will lead and support various coalitions and will work to help identify and engage new partners to advance and/or protect organizational priorities. To be successful, this individual will need to enjoy interacting with groups across the West, as well as national partner organizations. An ideal candidate would be creative, detail-oriented, enthusiastic, motivated, flexible, intuitive, organized, and internally driven; would have experience in developing and implementing all stages of issue-based campaigns; would have fun engaging and collaborating with numerous people and organizations; would thrive in a fast-paced environment; would be willing to go the extra mile to get the job done; would have political experience (either via an advocacy organization, electoral campaign, or work for an elected official or agency); would have strong written and verbal communications skills; would enjoy coordinating people and organizations; would have a basic understanding of key policy issues related to WEP’s campaigns; and would be passionate about protecting our public lands. The salary range for this position is $95-105k. This position is open until filled.
- Western Resource Advocates is seeking a Senior Attorney. The Senior Attorney, Clean Energy, will represent WRA across the region in state-level administrative proceedings, as well as state and federal litigation as necessary. The Senior Attorney will independently manage a docket of complex regulatory litigation in multiple states, primarily before state electric utility regulatory agencies, with minimal direct oversight. The Senior Attorney will also identify opportunities to advance WRA’s policy goals in various regulatory proceedings and executes actions to secure those outcomes. The salary range for this position is $86,500-121,000. This position is open until filled.
New Direct Actions
- Take action with American Rivers. Tell Congress to pass flood resilience funding.
- Take action with the Center for Biological Diversity. Tell Alaska to reject Proposal 75 and take bears and wolves out of the crosshairs.
- Take action with the Center for Biological Diversity. Tell the federal government to enact the strongest possible critical habitat designations for the Permian Basin now.
- Take action with the Center for Biological Diversity. Urge the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to finalize a critical habitat designation that allows these beautiful native bumblebees to continue to survive and — we hope — eventually thrive.
- Take action with Environmental Action. Call on the Fish and Wildlife Service to save monarchs today.
- Take action with Environmental Action. Tell Wyoming’s governor that it’s time to end the wolf hunts.
- Take action with Environmental Action. Tell the NOAA to protect Hudson Canyon.
- Take action with Great Old Broads for Wilderness. Tell President Biden to create three new national monuments in California.
- Take action with Green America. Tell Comcast to switch to 100% clean energy and to ensure energy equity.
- Take action with the Native Organizers Alliance Action Fund. Tell President Biden to preserve sacred land, and designate the Kw’tsán National Monument now.
- Take action with the Native Organizers Alliance Action Fund. Tell Congress to begin to heal historic harms of the Sand Creek Massacre by passing the Mount Blue Sky Wilderness Act before the end of the year.
- Take action with Outdoor Alliance. Thank your lawmakers for passing the EXPLORE Act.
Urgent Direct Actions (those with approaching deadlines)
- Take action with Audubon. Reject a land exchange that would permanently damage the Refuge by allowing the construction of a privatized road through a designated Wilderness area. Comments are due December 30.
- Take action with Earthjustice. Stop the unnecessary land swap and road from being built through an Alaska Wildlife Refuge. Comments are due December 30.
- Take action with Wilderness Watch. A few days after the recent elections, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland proposed a land exchange to facilitate the construction of an 11-mile road through the protected tundra and wetlands of the world-renowned Izembek Wilderness and National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. If built, the road would be catastrophic for the critters that live there and would essentially cut the 307,982-acre Izembek Wilderness in two. Worse yet, if this land exchange goes through, any future Secretary of Interior could exchange lands in any Wilderness, National Park, or National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to allow for roads or other developments. Submit your comments to stop this disastrous land exchange. Comments are due December 30.
Evergreen Actions (until we succeed)
- SunCor Energy, a Canadian-run company, runs an oil refinery north of Denver, Colorado. Suncor is Colorado’s only oil refinery and one of our largest emitters of greenhouse gasses and toxic air pollutants, and has been operating without any changes to its procedures or pollution controls for years. In spite of numerous enforcement actions and settlements, Suncor continues to flout air quality laws, putting neighboring communities — who are primarily BIPOC and low income — at extreme risk. Suncor has no regard for human or non-human life and will continue to harm our communities if action is not taken. Please take a moment to watch Spirit of the Sun’s short film on Suncor’s impact on Colorado’s Indigenous communities or scroll to the bottom of the page to send a form-letter to Governor Polis, Colorado Dept. of Health and Environment, and the EPA asking them to shut down Suncor for good: https://www.suncorsundown.org
- Donate to Spirit of the Sun’s efforts to combat Suncor’s harmful impacts through their Mycelium Program which trains their community members to inoculate the soil in their communities and throughout Native land with networks of mycelium to restore the health of our soil systems. When we cannot depend on the systems in power to create change, we educate ourselves and our community to protect the systems we hold dear: https://www.spiritofthesun.org/mycelium-healing-project-1
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