Founding of the Carbondale Renegade Marching Band

During the summers of 2011 and 2012, I created and founded the first ever Carbondale Renegade Marching Band complete with nearly 30 volunteer musicians (high school kids and adults) and 15 volunteer dancers. It was a complete grassroots endevour and created more joy for the community than I ever imagined possible.

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Raising Up a Fire: Stoked on Conservation?

Published 8/17/18 by Aldo Leopold Foundation Like most environmental educators and park interpreters, I have a strong commitment to sharing wild places with others. The beauty and wonder of our public lands create the perfect setting to share and nurture a land ethic with learners from all walks of life. For me, it is more than just a vocation, though—care for people, land, and communities infuse every part of my life. Every day, I work to foster intimate relationships between people and their landscape both in my professional and civic life. During 2014, I was fortunate to learn from and become one of the Land Ethic Leaders during a special session of the Aldo Leopold Foundation ’s program hosted in Grand Teton National Park at the Murie Center. The experience stoked the fierce green fire within me to keep the land ethic alive and give voice to the Murie’s ecological wilderness values. Stoke, passion, adrenaline, enthusiasm are driving the desire for bigger, higher, an...

April 4, 2013 Letter to Editor

Letter to the Editor - Wilderness

Dear friends, Wilderness (with a capitol ‘w’) proposals have been brought to our attention during the past few weeks here in the Valley. I hope you are educating yourselves and understand the opportunity that is present for us to make an incredible impact on our environment, our culture and our selves by encouraging Congress to pass the Hidden Gems Wilderness bill. We are defined by our landscapes – it’s our clean water, clean air, recreation opportunities, our wildlife, our mountains, and our rivers who make us who we are - we are all part of our ecological and land community. As members of the land community we are charged with being stewards of it and protecting it from future degradation. People in our valley appreciate having public land to play in more than most people in the country. Hikers, bikers, para gliders, skiers (alpine, Nordic, backcountry, etc.), river runners, fishermen, hunters, snowmobilers, dirt bikers, ATV drivers, horse...

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