Program areas at SJMA
Visitor Centers - to man 13 US Forest Service and 1 Bureau of Land Management offices with persons and materials to educate, assist, inform and direct visitors about the public lands available in the area and the proper use of those lands. Also host, in conjunction with Colorado Department of Wildlife, hunter information booths during hunting season approx 800 hunters were informed. Also work with the State of Colorado to provide search and rescue cards to persons going into the back country. There were approx 140,000 visitors who were assisted by the visitor information specialists.
Outdoor Volunteers is a program to recruit, train and coordinate a core of volunteers. These volunteers do a variety of jobs including but not limited to trail information specialists, wilderness information specialists, adopt a trial maintenance work, hunter information specialists, wild horse herd monitoring, adopt a public lands road, and campsite restoration. There were over 3,950 volunteer hours.
Education Outreach programs are various types of environmental education and activites that takes participants from awareness of the environment to knowledge about it, addresses attitudes, skills and finaly brings participants to action. There programs include but are not limited to wildflower walks, llama treks, noxious weeds, fire awareness, mountian lion awareness, school field trips, teacher workshops, youth camps, bird watching, nature hikes, reforestation of burn areas and many other classes and activites for all ages.
Cultural Site Stewardship is a program that trains volunteers to monitor the condition of archaeological sites. SW Colorado has one of the highest densities of historical and prehistoric archeological sites in the nation. The program also provides education about these sites to stimulate appreciation of cultural resources. About 2200 volunteer hours in monitoring these sites. This program also involved in other cultural and historial project. Rural School project is documenting rural schools that were active from about 1877 to 1959. Rural cemeteries project is to document several cemeteries with ethnic/religious affiliations. Heritage education in partnership with the La Plata County Historical Society to get kids and families involved with the history of the area they live in. Hispanic arborglyphs is to document aspen tree arborhlyphs along the Pine Piedra Stock Driveway.