Beyond the Trail

Summit County local, Tom Koehler, has helped care for Colorado’s outdoors for years as a volunteer with outdoor stewardship organizations including Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado (VOC) and many others. Now, he has founded Sustainable Hiker to inspire others to care for the health and sustainability of water and forests in the Blue River Watershed and beyond.

As the snow begins to melt in the high country, I anxiously look forward to another season as a proud steward of our land and water through trail and eco-restoration projects. As volunteers, we all give what we can on the ground to restore our heavily used land and over tapped waters.

As the dots between the environment all around us and the work we do with the land and water began to connect with me, I wondered what else I could explore in this journey to heal and rejuvenate our eco-system.

Sustainable Hiker was born out of this journey. Over time, I aim to bring awareness to all our work that helps the land and water we love and need, from stewardship to advocacy for our natural resources and environmental conservation.

Let’s all continue to seek ways to support the outdoors beyond the vastly important trail and eco-system work we do as volunteers. If you would like to explore other paths, please let me know. As more of us go beyond the trail and learn about other levers we can pull to affect positive change, the same will happen for stewardship.

Sincerely,

Tom Koehler

Sustainable Hiker

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