2021 Mid-Season Accomplishments

2021 Mid-Season Accomplishments

WITH HALF OF SUMMER gone (and half left to go), Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers is celebrating the incredible impact we’ve made on our community so far during Project Season 2021. Thanks to all our supporters for your efforts!

July 2021

July 2021

OUR NETWORK OF MEMBERS, volunteers, and partners enables Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers to achieve our mission of public lands stewardship – we couldn't do the work without your help! Although we're not even halfway through 1 summer season, we've already recorded 2,000 volunteer hours! And coming this month are three fantastic events so you can get outdoors with a purpose this July.

June 2021

June 2021

IN MY THREE MONTHS as the new Program Manager at RFOV it's been a joy to meet so many fun and enthusiastic members of our community: thank you to everyone who has joined us and passionately engaged in land stewardship!

18 Agencies: 1 RFOV

18 Agencies: 1 RFOV

In 2021, Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers will work with land managers at the federal, state, county, and municipal levels – we're excited to help our partners accomplish their stewardship goals!

Meet RFOV's New Executive Director

Following winter transition, Becca will become ed on march 15th.


We're excited to announce that Becca Schild will become RFOV’s Executive Director.  Becca is currently the Associate Director for RFOV, and the staff and Board are thrilled to see her embrace this new role. With her 15 years of experience across many non-profit stewardship and education organizations combined with her Ph.D. research in volunteer stewardship, Becca brings a diverse skill-set to the RFOV community. 

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New Foundations

Current Executive Director, Ron Rash, has implemented significant organizational changes in his two years of leadership. Though RFOV has served Pitkin, Garfield, Eagle, and Gunnison counties since 1995, never before has it been so confident in its financial sustainability and its community support. Ron's tenure with RFOV will be remembered by the dedicated and inspired team he assembled. As a Crew Leader and Crew Leader instructor, Ron will remain connected to the RFOV community in his retirement.

Dedicated to Outdoors Leadership

RFOV will benefit from incoming Executive Director Becca Schild's 15 years of experience as an outdoor and environmental educator, her academic background in environmental stewardship, and her extensive experience in the non-profit sector. Most recently, she co-founded and directed the High Mountain Institute’s Adventure and Conservation Semesters in the American West and Patagonia while also working on her PhD in Environmental Studies at CU Boulder. Her doctoral dissertation, entitled “​Civic Recreation: the Promise of Uniting Outdoor Recreation and Environmentalism in the 21st Century​”, examined the role that recreation-based stewardship organizations play in successful land management. Her previous experience as an administrator, overseeing the Environmental Center and Campus Sustainability at​ Fort Lewis College, and as an educator, teaching environmental studies courses for Colorado College, University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado Mountain College, and Utah State University, will also serve her well in this new role.