Time for our fourteenth Annual CITO event to help clean up the environment we love so much! Without these Open Spaces, where would we hide our caches? In lamp posts??? The previous CITO Events here were great successes. Let's make this one even better!
Columbine Open Space
(April is iffy in Colorado - hopefully the weather cooperates)
This event will get you the 2025 CITO Season 1 Souvenir, not that it takes a special digital icon to get you to come help clean!
We'll be heading it up this year with the help of natural resource specialist, Jackie.
This event will begin at 10:00am, and go until 1:00pm
Meet up at 10:00 for some quick instructions, then go on your Mullein massacre or trash cleanup.
Bring all trash bags back to GZ by 12:40pm, and we'll have a FREE drawing at 12:45pm.
Any help taking trash to the county dumpster is greatly appreciated (but not required).
We will be focusing on Mullein Removal this year, and if we have enough volunteers, we will also continue to clean the frontage road that we've worked on previously. For those who have been coming, there is a NOTICEABLE difference in the park from what we have removed, thanks! We always have to walk further and further to find mullein we haven't removed. We will clean up for a few hours (but please come even if you can only stay a little), and then meet up at the picnic shelter for some raffle prizes.
Provided: Trash bags and snacks by Douglas County Open Space (DCOS), and raffle prizes provided by hosts.
Bring: Yourself, your family, your friends, ready to work! Gloves, extra water and snacks, shovel or weeding tools if you have any, jeans are recommended too.
Waivers will need to be signed, and will be provided on site. Any minors will need a waiver signed by the parent or guardian as well.
Please RSVP so I can plan ahead. Many hands make light work!