ACES Apprenticeshi

p PortfolioHaley McAtee

Hike to Crater Lake

• I got to know Sarah and the other apprentices on the first day

• We shared our “maps” on how we got here• When we realized we loved the

environment• Camping trip 2010 • What we want to get out of this program

• Learn in field study week• Share knowledge during volunteer week

Crater Lake cont.

• Wild at Heart, A Natural History Guide Dedicated to Snowmass, Aspen, and the Maroon Bells Wilderness• Learned how to classify and find name

of flowers• Color coded guide • Questions • Aspen Sunflower – made of many

flowers, have ray and disc florets • Cow parsnip

Cathedral Lake Hike

• Strenuous but beautiful hike

• Jim from ACES went with us and taught us about nature on the way

• Aspen trees• All connected together by the roots!• Reproduce by cloning themselves

Rock Bottom Ranch: Roaring Fork Conservancy

• Focus on water quantity, quality, and preserving the habitats

• Tunnels move water from Colorado's west to east through Continental Divide

• Discussed how to conserve water• Reduce green lawns – need lots of water to

maintain• Swimming pools• Lower demand for these

RBB: Tomorrow’s Voices

• Spoke about what we value

• Which values/character traits are important

• Do we really follow what we value?

RBR Farm and Garden

• Tour of farm• Visited chickens, goats, pigs

• Service work in garden• Made flower beds out of reused crates• Planted flower and vegetable seeds

Ashcroft Ghost Town – helping build

pathway

Hunter Creek Trail

• Discussed public lands

• What is wilderness? Definition?

• Read the Wilderness Act• Interesting for me – how they described

“wilderness”• “A wilderness…is hereby recognized as an

area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.” (Wilderness Act, section 2 (c))

• Poetic – unusual for laws

Rocky Mountain Institute

• Toured the building

• Extremely energy efficient

• Every little thing was thought of• Using cold air in winter to refrigerate • Instead of dryer using the heat from solar panels• Specialized sweep at bottom of door to keep cold

air out (or in) the house• Energy efficient toilet, dishwasher, shower, ect• And countless other thingsIf people could change their homes to be like this,

how much energy would we save?

RMI

Volunteer Week Highlights

• Snowmastodon field trip• Mammoths and mastodon mystery

Discovery Kids

• Gooseberry, raspberry, and ant craze

• Loved all of the kids and teaching them!

• No mans land adventure• Ventured off where I’ve never been

before!• Untouched, we made our own paths• Found many animal bones

Thank you for this

wonderful opportunity!