During 2023 and 2024 we worked with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and Colorado Parks and Wildlife to create 2 wildlife kiosks along the I-70 corridor west of Grand Junction. Our group received a grant from The Sierra Club to fund the purchase of the metal and plexiglass parts of the kiosks, and to pay the artist, Sarrah Weaver. BLM employees and WSSC members coordinated on creating the posters. Thank you very much, BLM employees!
To see previews of 3 of the posters from the Prairie Dog Kiosk, go to our prairie dogs page. Here are the three posters for our Riparian Wildlife Kiosk:
First one is the left poster:
This is the Center Poster:
Here is the right poster:
The Prairie Dog kiosk is installed at North Pond, also called 6 & 50 Reservoir, west of Mack off of Highway 6&50. You can see it from the highway, and get to it by taking the dirt road south that passes under I70 to Rabbit Valley. Right after leaving highway 6&50, there is a large parking lot, and the kiosk is at its SW corner.
The second kiosk, with the above posters, has now been installed at the McDonald Creek trailhead. Take the main exit off I70 to Rabbit Valley, and continue south on a fairly bumpy dirt road for a couple miles to the trailhead. Again, thanks to BLM employees for their help on these kiosks.
Books recommended by our WSSC members:
Poetry Corner
High Desert
Out here, there is another way to be.
There is a rising brightness in the rock,
a singing in the silence of the tree.
Something is always moving, running free,
as quick and still as quail move in a flock.
The hills out here know a hard way to be.
I have to listen to it patiently:
a drumming canter slowing to a walk,
a flutter in the silence of a tree.
The owl's call from the rimrock changes key.
What door will open to the flicker's knock?
Out here there is another way to be,
described by the high circle of a hawk
above what sits in silence in the tree.
The cottonwoods in their simplicity
talk softly on, as hidden waters talk,
an almost silent singing in the tree
that says, there is another way to be.
- Ursula K. Le Guin