• Meet up for a casual morning walk or run
• Register for morning yoga

• Lightning Talks
  • Building Independence Through Horses: Outdoor Equity in Action  (Bits of Freedom)
  • The Mayfly Project: Mentoring Youth in Foster Care (The Mayfly Project)
  • Where Tech Meets Trails: Powering Outdoor Access Through Partnership (Flexion)
  • Flash Talk on the Water: Wildfire Nexus (Walton Family Foundation)
  • Bears and People: Shared Landscapes (Colorado Parks and Wildlife)
• Youth and Families from the Backyard to the Backcountry (Great Outdoors Colorado)
• The Ecosystem Effect: Strengthening Colorado’s Web of Outdoor Access Ecosystem (Rising Routes Alliance)
• Outdoor COLAB: Lessons from a Regional Leadership Laboratory for the Future - (Pikes Peak Outdoor Recreation Alliance)
• Connecting Biome-Scale Grassland Conservation to Local Action: The Central Grasslands Roadmap and the Eastern Colorado Grassland Coalition (Bird Conservancy of the Rockies)
• How Belonging Initiatives Drive Sustainable Outdoor Recreation  (Colorado Mountain Club)
• Bringing Digitization to Stewardship: An Intro to Trailfunds (Trailfunds)

• Using Outdoor Learning Data to Guide Conservation and Stewardship Outreach Efforts  (Colorado Alliance for Environmental Education)
• Collaborative Strategies for Sustainable Outdoor Recreation & Tourism Economies (Colorado Tourism Office)
• "Finally, somebody gets me!” - Building Partnerships to Get Kids Outdoors (Friends of Youth and Nature)  
• Everyone Outdoors Colorado Mentorship Program (Everyone Outdoors Colorado)
• E-bikes and Accessibility: What's All the Confusion About? (Every Body Outside Consulting, LLC)
• Taking Action: Recreation for Conservation (Suffer Better)
• From the GPLI to the GORP Act: How extensive collaboration led to the most broadly supported public lands legislation in years (The Wilderness Society)
• Forty Years of Fishing is Fun in Colorado (Colorado Parks and Wildlife)

Making Room: Balancing Recreation and Wildlife in Colorado’s Outdoors

With humor, heart, and a few surprising wildlife lessons, Patt Dorsey invites Colorado’s recreation and conservation communities to think differently about how we share space with wildlife. Blending humor, lived experience, and powerful imagery from her field photography, she explores why big conservation problems aren’t solved by blame, why strategically placed recreation provides better experiences, and helps protect wildlife and the places we love, and how personal responsibility and unlikely alliances can move the Colorado Outdoor Strategy forward. An inspiring call for collaborative, wildlife‑centered stewardship.

• Natural Resilience: The Healing Bond Between Veterans and the Outdoors (Trailhead Strategies Group)
• Conservation wins that support exceptional and sustainable recreation (Colorado Wildlife Federation)
• Collaborative Stewardship and Education: Response to Federal Funding Cuts (Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers)
• RESTORE CO: Leveraging Statewide Planning to Scale Up Wildlife Conservation (National Fish and Wildlife Foundation)
• Therapeutic Mentorship: Modality for Expanding Outdoor Access (La Plata Youth Services) 
• Why We Hunt (Colorado Parks and Wildlife)
• Working Lands, Shared Futures: The Role of Agriculture in Colorado’s Outdoors (Colorado Cattlemen's Association)
• Privately Funded Trail Crew Partners with Federal Land Managers (Trails Preservation Alliance)
• Art in Shared Landscapes: Deepening Connection to Nature and Community (Alpine Artist Collective)

• Wild Game Processing, Cooking, and Taste Testing- Wild Turkey (At Cheyenne Mountain State Park with Colorado Parks and Wildlife)
• Sky High Ranch (With Girl Scouts of Colorado)
• Exploring Shared Landscapes: An Adventure at Cheyenne Mountain (At Cheyenne Mountain State Park with Agents of Discovery)
• Avenger Open Space Tour (With Palmer Land Conservancy)
• Botany Hike in the Garden of the Gods (With Colorado Native Plant Society)
• 101 Introduction to Fly Fishing (At Anglers Covey)

Meet up for a casual morning walk or run.

• Lightning Talks
  • Creation of the Colorado MTB coalition: History, motivation, vision (Colorado Mountain Bike Coalition)
  • Get it Gone: A Roadmap of Barbed Wire Removal Through Collaboration and Dedicated Nonprofit Volunteers (Wild Aware)
  • The Colorado Strategic Wildfire Action Program (COSWAP) adaptive program management: Examples of partner driven program refinement + listening session for future needs (Colorado Department of Natural Resources)
  • The Mental Health Benefits of Connecting with Nature: Leveraging Colorado’s Outdoors for Well-Being (Behavioral Health Administration)
  • Unlocking Impact Through Partnership: Creative and Practical Ways to Collaborate (Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado)
• Roadmap for Species in Need: 2025 Colorado State Wildlife Action Plan (Colorado Wildlife Federation) 
• State Land Board Conservation & Recreation Working Group Update (Colorado State Land Board) 
• Advancing Accessible and Equitable Trail Information Across Colorado - Breaking Down Barriers to Collecting and Sharing Your Accessible Trails (Colorado Parks and Wildlife)
• From Fear to Freedom: Embracing the Outdoors (Orophile Outdoor Adventures)
• Collective Strength: Supporting a Future-Ready Outdoor Recreation Workforce (Society of Outdoor Recreation Professionals)
• The Commons Revisited: Lessons from the Timber Barons, Trail Builders, and Wilderness Philosophers (Human Potential LLC)   
• A Conversation on Recreation and Conservation (Trails & Open Space Coalition and Sportspersons Roundtable)

• Chico Basin Ranch (At Chico Basin Ranch with Colorado State Land Board)
• Mt. Muscoco Hike in North Cheyenne Cañon Park (At Cheyenne Canon Park with Rocky Mountain Field Institute)
• Let's Talk Turkey: A Naturalist Walk with a Hunter (At Cheyenne Mountain State Park with Colorado Parks and Wildlife)
• Wings, Water, and Well-Being: Mindful Birding Along Fountain Creek (At Fountain Creek Nature Center)
• 101 Introduction to Fly Fishing (At Anglers Covey)