Northern San Juan • Entered by Robyn Cascade on September 26, 2020
NSJBB CORE Act -quarterly
July 1, 2020 – September 30, 2020
Participants and Hours
| Pre Planning hours | 5 |
| Post Admin hours | 1 |
| Activity Hours | 7 |
| Participants | 4 |
| Total Hours | 34 |
Key Issue: Wilderness & Monument Designation/Protection
Activity Type: Advocacy (rallies, lobbying, meeting decision makers, letters/calls/emails)
Key Partners: lots….
Landscape/area: Mount Sneffels Wilderness (16485 acres)
Measurable Outcomes
Outcome 1: Advocacy actions (3 LTE – Ulli)
Outcome 2: Advocacy actions (5 participants virtual tour)
Outcome 3: Advocacy actions (4 participants in virtual DC fly-in)[/if 1231]
Short Description of Activity
All the usual calls and correspondence with coalition partners, plus soliciting emails, calls and new in September, participants in the virtual fly-in and the virtual CORE tour. In addition to the above outcomes, we also made 3 calls and one email to Gardner when the CORE Act was not on the list of bills to be heard in the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
Reflection/Evaluation
This wilderness legislation business is a long haul and the pandemic has stalled some of our coalition’s activism not wanting to be insensitive to greater priorities on the part of businesses, governments and supporters of CORE in general. I don’t know how the virtual fly-in and virtual tour went as I was out of reception for those events and won’t have time to inquire before these activity reports are due. Nevertheless I was thrilled with the response to participate in both by elected officials, business supporters, partner organizations, our very own Shelley and local longtime rancher supporter. My greatest frustration is not knowing how many of our members/supporters who get our emails respond to my action alerts, so the numbers in the activity description above (since there isn’t room for a 4th measurable outcome) re: calls and emails to Gardner could be a fraction of the calls/contacts actually made. One of our member leaders and myself are going to scheme on a solution to this frustration by creating a google doc that action takers can just log into – rather than having to send an email or fill out a volunteer activity form.
Photos/Uploads
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Photo Captions
Link to Ulli’s LTE which appeared in at least three regional newspapers.