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A unique point in time


​With your support, Aspen Valley Land Trust’s Conserving Land & Connecting Community capacity-building and capital campaign aims to raise $5.8 million to double AVLT’s conservation impact and activate Coffman Ranch and the former Outward Bound Basecamp to serve as ambassadors for conservation and provide a permanent home for AVLT and an outdoor education basecamp for youth across the region.
​On rare occasions, organizations reach a point where the convergence of history, urgency of need, and vision create an opportunity for monumental transformation and impact. Aspen Valley Land Trust is at that point.

As the oldest regional land trust in Colorado, AVLT has worked with landowners and community partners since 1967 to forever protect over 51,500 acres of open and productive​ land from Independence Pass to the Roan Plateau. ​The imperative to protect more of this cherished landscape before it’s too late and to bring the entire community along on the journey led to AVLT’s first Strategic Conservation Plan, released in 2022. 
This campaign addresses the plan’s major goals by ramping up organizational capacity to double the amount of conserved land and by raising the capital to fund the restoration, management, and activation of AVLT’s “ambassador” properties.

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​Campaign Goals

Thanks to this generous community, AVLT is strongly positioned and committed to meet this moment. Now is the time to increase capacity to forever protect and care for more land and complete capital projects to build support and longevity for this work into the future. You can help AVLT seize this opportunity of this unique point in time to conserve important land and grow healthier, more connected communities.

Double Our Impact

Conserving large, connected areas of ranchland and key wildlife habitat is essential to the health of our wildlife, our way of life, and our future. The open lands you love are rapidly transforming, making the next decade a crucial window to protect and connect as much remaining high-priority open land as possible.​​

Activate AVLT's Coffman Ranch

With generous support from partners and supporters like you, AVLT has been uniquely positioned to purchase and protect cherished places with incredible ecological significance and community value. In 2021, AVLT acquired the historic Coffman Ranch near Carbondale. Now is the time to restore and reignite these special places for the benefit of our children and community, and ultimately for the benefit of conservation.

Activate AVLT's Marble Basecamp

In 2023, AVLT was entrusted to protect and steward the nation’s first Outward Bound Basecamp in the crystalline high country above Marble – a complement to AVLT’s beloved outdoor education campus, Chapin Wright Marble Basecamp, located next door. Now is the time to restore and reignite these special places for the benefit of our children and community, and ultimately for the benefit of conservation.​

  


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Now is the time


The next chapter for this ranch - and conservation in Western Colorado - is in front of you today. This is your opportunity to help protect and steward land and treasured water and experience a working ranch first-hand. This is your opportunity to help a vision for your community come to life, to empower the next generation of land stewards, and to save a piece of the past for a healthier future.  Please contact Jeff Davlyn at [email protected] or 970.456.3560 for more information on how Aspen Valley Land Trust and Coffman Ranch can help fulfill your giving goals. 
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