event_title: Colorado AFI Mapping Fences and Scouting Turkeys Workshop

event_time_zone: America/Denver

event_start: March 23, 2024 08:00

event_duration: 480

event_end: March 23, 2024 16:00

event_address: Cañon City, CO, United States

event_description: Colorado AFI is hosting a Mapping Fences and Scouting Turkeys Workshop! Why You Should Want to Attend:Colorado AFI in a collaboration with the Royal Gorge Field Office of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) invites all BHA members to join us for this workshop. The BLM will provide a fence mapping field training and Colorado AFI will provide a class on scouting for turkeys.What is it:BLM training: knowledge/skills to use your mapping app to help the BLM collect fence data on public lands. After class, we will disperse across the BLM’s Deer Haven unit to practice our new skills. After the event you will have the ability to volunteer to help map fences for the Royal Gorge Field Office any time you are out on the landscape training and scouting for your future hunts.Goal of mapping and collecting the fence data: to help the BLM inventory fences on properties they manage. The data collected will be used to aid future fence removal and modification projects aimed at improving wildlife habitat and connectivity.BHA training: skills for scouting turkeys that you will be able to employ while you are out mapping fence lines to map at Deer Haven. We will be in ponderosa pine woodlands that provide important habitat for turkey, deer, elk, and many other wildlife species and an immediate opportunity to practice the new skills we will be teaching.Colorado AFI will provide a lunch after we all return from mapping and scouting.What to bring:-Your phone with mapping app and offline map loaded for the area-a chair/stool for the classes-water-snacks-boots-clothes suitable for the forecasted weather When is it:March 23rd from 8AM-4PM Where is it:BLM’s Deer Haven Unit North Parking Lot (38.632, -105.381)Who can attend:- This event is open to all members of the military community(Active duty, Reserves, National Guard, Veterans, and Gold Star families)- You do not need to be a BHA member to attend (but we sure would appreciate it if you were)- All BHA membersThis will be a great opportunity for the military and non-military BHA members to gather and learn from one another while working together to improve our public lands. For any questions, please contact Colorado AFI Liaison Matthew Lee atCOAFIbackcountryhunters.orgorAFI_SkillsbridgeBackcountryhunters.org Come see why BHAs Armed Forces Initiative is the fastest-growing outdoor program for the military community and help bring more folks outdoors in Colorado.