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Camp rocky 2023 registration to be announced!

2023 Divide Colorado

Camp Rocky is an educational, week long residential camp for 14 through 19 year-olds who enjoy the outdoors and are interested in natural resources!

Camp is located outside Divide, Colorado. Camp Rocky’s professional staff helps participants learn about their environment through hands-on experiences. Students work in teams, making new friends from across Colorado.

Each year, new and returning students choose one of the following resource fields for their area of focus: Rangeland Science Forestry Management Soil and Water Science Fish and Wildlife Management At the end of the week, students will use their group learning plan to complete a management project. Additional camper activities include volleyball games, hiking, a campfire, group challenges, nightly natural resource presentations, and a talent show!

Sponsored by the Colorado Association of Conservation Districts, with the help of other natural resource conservation partners.
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High School Youth Forum & FFA Range Judging Competitions

2023 High School Youth Forum Delegates attend SRM in Boise Idaho

Colorado high school students Jedadiah Ballard (left), Chrisily Furia (far right), and Elaine Shannon (center) were selected by the Colorado Section of the Society for Range Management (SRM) to participate in the High School Youth Forum (HSYF), an SRM sponsored youth activity held jointly during the 76th SRM annual meeting held in Boise, Idaho on February 12-16, 2023.
Read the recap of our delegates at SRM
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  • Congratulations to all our students and Chrisily Furia's 3rd place finish overall!
Read about our students accomplishments in The Fence Post and Ag Journal News
https://www.thefencepost.com/category/news/state/  
https://www.agjournalonline.com/2023/02/24/range-management-papers-presented-by-area-students/  

2022 high school youth forum delegates attend SRM Albuquerque

​February 9, 2022 - The winners of the High School Youth Forum competition for the Albuquerque International Society for Range Management meeting were announced and two of our students placed in the top five!
  • Congratulations to students Emma Amato 3rd place and Ana Lockard 5th place overall!
Read the recap of our Delegates at SRM
Colorado delegates Ana Lockard (left) and Emma Amato (right) with SRM President Poncho Ortega (center) in Albuquerque.
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January 31, 2022 - our High School Youth Forum delegates practiced their oral presentations in preparation for the SRM contest in front of committee members who attended in person and on zoom. Special thanks to Bow & Arrow Ranch Manager Michael Lacey for attending and opening the ranch and his management experiences to the students. Also thanks to the Spanish Peaks-Pergatoire River Conservation District c/o Justin Malispini and Jonnalea Tortorelli for their continuing support!

January 27 2022 - Our 2022 High School Youth Forum Delegates going to SRM Albuquerque representing the Colorado Section and their topics are (click on the title to read their final paper presented at SRM):
  • Ana Lockhard, Lone Star FFA; "The Fox Ranch; A Success Story for Ecology, Wildlife, Cattle, Conservation, and Communities in Northeast Colorado"
  • Emma Amato, Branson FFA; "Fencing of the Future"
  • Alex Mattorano, Hoehne FFA; "High Stock Density Grazing on Native Rangeland"

​Learn about the students who will be representing the Colorado Section at the 2022 SRM Meeting in Albuquerque in our Winter Report 2022 or click the button below. 
READ ABOUT OUR STUDENTS WHO WILL REPRESENT THE COLORADO SECTION - WINTER REPORT 2022

2021 RECAP OF OUR YOUTH ACTIVITIES
  
For CSU Range Club updates please click here

2020 Recap

High School Range Judging contest

2020 Colorado HSYF Delegates to the SRM INTERNATIONAL MEETING IN DENVER

Click here to read about the high school range judging contests that took place this year across the state in 2020.
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Braden Wedel - Livingston Ranch Case Study Paper
Daisy Medina - Managing the pinon Canyon Rangeland Paper
Austin Marsh - Wild Horses on the Range Paper
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At the Burlington event Braden Wedel (center) of the Stratton FFA accepts his recognition for highest individual achievement from Julie Elliott (left) CO Section SRM, and Cory Wedel (right) Stratton FFA Advisor.
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2020 Colorado Section SRM president Josh Tashiro, along with New Raymer FFA president Montana Goodman (left), presented awards to high scoring individual Bobbie Schreiner (right) at the New Raymer event. The high scoring team awards were provided by the CO Section SRM: New Raymer – 1st Place Prairie FFA, 2nd Place Woodlin FFA; La Junta/Rocky Ford – 1st Place Branson FFA, 2nd Place Fowler FFA, 3rd Place Kim FFA; Burlington – 1st Place Lone Star FFA, 2nd Place Stratton FFA, 3rd Place Arriba-Flagler FFA.
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At the La Junta/Rocky Ford event students completing the rangeland inventory, site condition, and range management scenario on a Limestone Breaks ecological site.

2019 Recap

Spring/Summer Report 2019​ - Recap of student success at the SRM International Meeting in Minneapolis and our upcoming student activities.

Winter Report 2019 - Learn about the students who will be representing the Colorado Section at the 2019 SRM International Meeting in Minneapolis, MN.

Eastern Colorado State FFA Range Judging Contest 2019 - Find out how the high school FFA students did during the annual contest that was held in Seibert, CO.
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