Hello COSA friends,
We’re pleased to be hosting Keep It Colorado’s annual Spring Summit in Gunnison next month, and would love to have you join us! Please see the details below.
Calling all conservation easement holders and conservation practitioners working with private landowners! Keep It Colorado’s annual Spring Summit for members and partners features topics specific to the work of land trusts, public agencies, and other conservation professionals who work with conservation easements.
This year’s Spring Summit is May 21-23 in Gunnison at Western Colorado University. We’ll have a water law seminar, five field trips, a robust lineup of educational content, and plentiful opportunities to connect with colleagues over three packed days.
Topics include:
- Wanna Buy a Mountain? Silver Plume Mountain Park – Cindy Nasky, Colorado Historical Foundation
- Colorado West Land Trust’s Water Protection Plan – Alyssa Bentele, Colorado West Land Trust
- Mt Emmons Land Exchange and Conservation Easement – Jake Jones, Crested Butte Land Trust
- Navigating Future Years’ Credits and What We Can Do Now to Prepare – Ariel Steele and Caroline Rideout, Tax Credit Connection and Brendan Boepple, Colorado Cattlemen’s Agricultural Land Trust
- Appraisal Review: What It Is and What It Is Not – Kevin Shea, Shea Appraisal Company LLC
- Not If But When: How to Address Condemnation Threats – Molly Fales and Megan Knott, Colorado Cattlemen’s Agricultural Land Trust
- Agrivoltaics 101: Integrating Solar, Agriculture & Conservation – Austin Kinzer, American Farmland Trust, Brendan Boepple, Colorado Cattlemen’s Agricultural Land Trust
- Land Transfer & Succession Planning: Strategies for Support – Alyssa Bentele, Colorado West Land Trust, Dan Skeeters, Colorado Cattlemen’s Agricultural Land Trust, Seth Armentrout, Colorado Open Lands, and Emma Lietz Bilecky, Guidestone Colorado
- Identifying and Mitigating Threats to Our National Parks – Sheridan Steele, Black Canyon of the Gunnison & Acadia National Parks Superintendent, Retired
- Innovative Conservation Incentives for Critical Resources in Colorado
– Bill Boortz, Mountain, Valley and Plains, Inc. and Katelyn Toigo, Keep It Colorado - and more!
Register by April 30, 2025. Learn more and register here. General registration is $200. We’re also excited to be offering a camping option just 2 minutes from campus at $15/night for those who are eager to set up a tent and enjoy an evening bonfire.
Hope to see you there!
Best,
Hannah