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Promoting Outdoor Recreation

What is the Birding Trail? The Colorado Birding Trail is a major nature tourism initiative to promote non-consumptive outdoor recreation, conservation of resources by private landowners, and a diversified income for rural economies. The Birding Trail will link outdoor recreation sites, both public and private, into a network of sites where visitors can observe birds and other wildlife, often in addition to archaeological and paleontological treasures.

Who is building the Trail? Colorado Division of Wildlife, Colorado Audubon, Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory, Colorado Field Ornithologists, Colorado State Parks, and Playa Lakes Joint Venture are pleased to announce this strategic partnership. Colorado Division of Wildlife has provided funding for the development of a birding trail in Southeast Colorado for fiscal years 2005 and 2006. Colorado Audubon has written up a strategic plan for the development of that trail. Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory will culminate its outreach to private landowners in a series of meetings in early winter and spring 2006. Colorado Field Ornithologists has agreed to integrate into this project the work of its volunteer authors on the Colorado County Birding Website. Together with several other important partners, this team is now focused on developing the first phase of this trail in Southeast Colorado.