What We Do
At Restored Lands, we bring action and awareness to a sustainable future. We believe it is a core responsibility as a people to learn to live in unity with our planet so we can grow with her, rather than against her.
Launching officially in 2025 –and expanding multi-region in '26– we are sponsoring a petition, restoring monarch butterfly habitats, as well engaging the public on our environment. We also demonstrate our environmental goals by undergoing Cleanup Campaigns throughout the west, undertaking land restoration projects (habitats, cleanups, etc.), holding environmental wrong-doers accountable as well as educating & spreading sustainability awareness through our various outlets. Our long term goal is to build a handful of eco-friendly education centers in the western United States and shift the consciousness to a sustainable future.
We are based out of Colorado and on a mission to deepen the human connection to the Earth & our natural world so we can have a longer future together.
Mission
Our mission is to raise awareness and educate the public on a more sustainably-oriented world, while helping create a healthy environment.
Vision
Our vision is to help the people create a better connection to our natural world, and a future that is aligned with regenerative environment.
Restored Lands' 2025 Projects, Programs and Initiatives
How We Do It
Learn more about some of our On-The-Ground Initiatives, Methods of Reach, and more
A part of our stewardship efforts will be restoring natural habitats, enhancing ecological health and engaging the public through volunteering and conservation education. While land stewardship is just a piece of what we do as an organization, we try to weave the educational and community engagement aspect into it.
Right now we are in the process of securing land and implementing pollinator habitats. We are working with private landowners, the community, the youth, as well as advocating for the public to take part themselves in this effort. We have a things like a free seed program, articles and content to get folks started.
Another side of our stewardship action is conducted by our team, multi-region, with the overall intention of promoting sustainability and empowering individuals to give back and help change our world through action & example.
Team members with Restored Lands will be traveling expanded territories for an extended period of time conducting Cleanup Campaigns. Here they will be picking up trash in National Forests, BLM and other public & recreating lands they're traveling across, as well as pursue an awareness & educational effort in these areas. We'll also carry out some sponsored cleanups during this time! Our teams are flexible, mobile and self-sufficient, enabling them to accomplish their Tour successfully.
Teams are mostly staying in the vicinity of where their Tours current Cleanup Campaign is taking place; so forest land and BLM land. Having our people immersed in what they're doing on Tour not only fosters a deeper commitment & connection to their role in our overall mission, it allows us to be most effective in our land restoration efforts. Not to mention the benefit from the power of being surrounded by nature almost entirely.
Team members will spend time in recreation hubs to engage with the public primarily through a conventional booth style set up. Here they'll be talking to the folks recreating & visiting the areas they're touring about Restored Lands, sustainability principles & practices, their importance and ways they can not only help spread awareness, but also be land stewards themselves.
This is our Sustainability Promotion Initiative.
There will be a big effort on Tour to bring awareness to sustainability practices as well as the nonprofits education program, a more in depth version of the initiative, the Recreation Education Program.
A Tour is an 6-8 week trip. The Tour Region or Territory is the designated area our teams will be traveling and working through during that time. Cleanup Campaigns are the land cleanup & promotional/educational efforts at a particular area in a Tour Region. Each team will have anywhere from 5-10 Cleanup Campaigns to complete on Tour.
Other Methods of Reach & Initiatives
We also use our podcast, blog and various social media platforms to connect the community and provide educational content as a part of our mission. Once we're established in our stewardship, engagement and education efforts gaining public awareness of this organization, we will use our success from our different platforms of reach to open our focus to Restored Lands Geodesic Education Center -- the RLGEC.
We have some education programs in the works in addition to the REP and have an ambassadorship as well as other ways people can get involved through us. We are also heading an awareness campaign in the form of a petition called the Vail Gore Creek Petition. Stay tuned and consider signing up for our quarterly newsletter for updates!
Those of you interested in joining the team for Cleanup Tours, please submit your email here. You'll recieve an email and be prompted from there.
Those of you interested in joining the team in a different way, click here.
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