Pawnee National Grassland Get Help Tread Lightly!

Lucas Cooney
by Lucas Cooney
Tread Lightly! Pawnee National Grassland
Public-private partnership sees new fencing and information kiosk


The Pawnee National Grassland in Colorado is benefiting from a partnership between Tread Lightly! And Noble Energy, Inc. The groups held a kickoff event last Friday at the Main Draw Off-Highway Vehicle (OHV) Area near Greeley, Colo.

In partnership with the U.S. Forest Service’s Pawnee National Grassland office, Noble Energy employees alongside volunteers from a local Boy Scouts troop completed the first of three important projects installing new fencing and a new information kiosk that will serve local and visiting OHV enthusiasts.

The “Nurturing with Nature” partnership is highlighted by the development of a unique educational program to connect Greeley students with the outdoors.

Join Tread Lightly! For Chance to Win Arctic Cat Wildcat X “Tread Lightly! needs important community partners like Noble Energy to help accomplish critical work supporting outdoor recreation on our public lands,” says Lori McCullough, executive director for Tread Lightly!. “Through programs like these – by leveraging financial and intellectual resources through a public-private partnership – we are educating, inspiring and nurturing future stewards, and helping to connect people of all ages and abilities to our natural environment through participation in outdoor recreation.”

The recent project is intended to protect long-term access to this popular OHV area, sustain opportunities to enjoy outdoor recreation, and protect valuable natural resources.

“Noble Energy is proud to be working with Tread Lightly! and the U.S. Forest Service in making Colorado’s great outdoors more accessible, while at the same time promoting environmental stewardship to sustain our unique surroundings for future generations,” says Chip Rimer, Noble Energy Senior Vice President of U.S. Onshore. “Providing Tread Lightly! with resources and volunteers for these important projects is important to the people of Noble Energy, who believe strongly in our commitment to work in true partnership with our many communities.”

Noble’s Nurturing with Nature partnership with Tread Lightly! involves two other hands-on Restoration for Recreation projects scheduled for completion by the end of September 2015 at the popular recreational sites – the Baker Draw area (Monday, August 24) and Pawnee Buttes Trailhead (Friday, September 25).

“We are pleased this partnership could come together to accomplish some great work on the Pawnee National Grassland and help connect the public to their natural Grassland,” Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland Supervisor Glenn Casamassa said.

More information about Nurturing with Nature and Tread Lightly!’s Restoration for Recreation program can be found at http://treadlightly.org.

Lucas Cooney
Lucas Cooney

I have been working exclusively in digital media since 1997. I started out with TSN.ca, spending nearly nine years creating and editing content on Canada's leading sports website. I left to join VerticalScope, Inc., one of the world's largest online publishers, to start a number of powersports publications. While at VerticalScope, I've helped create and oversee content for a wide variety of different publications, including ATV.com, Off-Road.com, ArcheryTalk.com, Tractor.com, RVGuide.com, and many more.

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