Pre-Course Survey, 1st Semester 2008

Welcome to the Community Adventure Program! Before we get started, we
need to get some feedback about your outdoor experience, your thoughts
about the environment, your community, etc. Please answer this survey
honestly and to the best of your ability. The good folks who fund this
class use this information to assess the performance of the class and
this information will help us acquire new grants. Please Click Here To Take The Survey.

Upcoming Courses

The Cottonwood Institute is Proud to Present our 2008 Course Schedule…

The Cottonwood Institute offers co-ed courses that provide adventurous high school students and adults with the opportunity to sleep under the stars, develop essential camping and wilderness survival skills, tackle important environmental issues, explore future careers, reduce their environmental footprint, and gain the leadership skills necessary to make a positive impact in their own communities. College credit is available through Western State College for students 16 or older. Each course is limited to 12 participants and fill quickly, so Register Today!

*Register between March 10, 2008 and June 2, 2008 and you
will be entered into a drawing to receive 2 tickets to the sold out
Jack Johnson show at Red Rocks on August 17, 2008! Click Here for more information.

COURSES FOR STUDENTS 14 - 18 YEARS OLD:

Wildland Firefighter Project

We have the unique opportunity to work with Colorado Firecamp to learn
about fire ecology, fire behavior, receive real wildland firefighter training, and
practice wilderness survival skills, while completing much needed
wildfire mitigation projects to reduce the fuel load and fire danger in the Upper
Arkansas Valley. Date: June 14 - 20, 2008. Price: $995. Location: Near Buena Vista, Colorado. Age: 14 –
18 years old.  To register for this course, please click the Register For A Course Today! link or call us at 303.447.1076. Scholarships are available.

Stone Age Survival Project

We will team up with Earth Knack to learn stone-age survival skills,
including: stone tools, stone knives, primitive weapons, friction fire, and shelter
construction and complete environmental service projects, including:
gardening, composting, fire mitigation, and green building projects, while learning how
to reduce our environmental footprint in this modern age. Date: June 26 - July 2, 2008. Price: $1,095. Location: Crestone,
Colorado. Age: 14 – 18 years old. To register for this course, please click the Register For A Course Today! link or call us at 303.447.1076. Scholarships are available.

Horse Caretaker Project

We will collaborate with Sundance Lodge to
practice essential camping and wilderness survival skills, basic horseback riding skills, and we will work together
to complete much-needed horse caretaking projects. Date: July 8 - 14, 2008. Price: $1,095. Location: near Nederland,
Colorado. Age: 14 – 18 years old. To register for this course, please click the Register For A Course Today! link or call us at 303.447.1076. Scholarships are available.

Endangered Wolves and Animal Tracking

We will work in conjunction with Mission: Wolf to learn about the
ecology, habitat, reintroduction efforts, and controversy surrounding
endangered wolves, while practicing essential wilderness survival
skills and animal tracking and completing important projects to care
for captive wolves and their habitat. Date: August 2 - 8, 2008. Price: $995. Location: Gardner, Colorado. Age: 14 – 18 years old. To register for this course, please click the Register For A Course Today! link or call us at 303.447.1076. Scholarships are available.

COURSES FOR ADULTS (Minimum Age: 18, Average Age: 30):

Mt. Evans Volunteer Project

We will collaboration with the Colorado Fourteeners Initiative and the University of Denver
to complete much needed trail maintenance and restoration work on Mt.
Evans to help give back to the mountains we love and use and to help
protect and preserve one of Colorado’s most popular 14,000 foot peaks. Date: August 22 - 24, 2008. Price: Free! Location: Mt. Evans, Colorado. Age: 18+ years old, unless accompanied by an adult. To Register: Please download and complete our Adult Registration Form. You can mail your registration form to: Cottonwood Institute, PO Box 7067, Denver, CO 80207 or scan it and email it to Ford Church. To register a group for this volunteer project, please contact Ford Church at 303.447.1076.

Essential Survival Skills

This course is for adventurous adults who are interested in practicing
essential camping and
wilderness survival skills, putting their skills to the test during a
24-hour survival scenario, and completing an environmental service
project to give back to the land.  Date: October 2 - 5, 2008. Price: $495. Location: 30 miles west of Boulder near Ward, Colorado. Age: 18+ years old, unless accompanied by an adult.  To register for this course, please click the Register For A Course Today! link or call us at 303.447.1076. 

Winter Survival Skills

Whether you are an experienced winter camping guru, snowboarder or
skier, casual snowshoer, or a beginner, this Winter Survival Skills
course could save your life. We will spend the day building emergency
snow shelters, modern fire methods, participating in winter survival
and winter medical scenarios, and discussing winter survival
priorities. This course is designed to practice the hard skills to keep
you alive during a short term winter survival scenario. Date: Winter 2009 TBA. Price: $125. Location: 25 miles west of Boulder near Ward, Colorado. Age: 18+ years old, unless accompanied by an adult. To register for this course, please click the Register For A Course Today! link or call us at 303.447.1076.

HELP SPREAD THE WORD:

Please Click Here to download a copy of our 2008 Summer Course Schedule. We are
a small grassroots organization with a limited marketing budget, so if you would be willing to print
out a copy of this flyer to post in your school, office, favorite
coffee shop, or email a copy to your friends we would absolutely love
it!

Welcome to CAP, Fall 2008!

Welcome to CAP! This semester we will become active community leaders
through identifying a local environmental issue affecting our community
and then doing something about it!  Through exploration, field trips,
and guest speakers, we will learn about environmental sustainability,
find ways to reduce our carbon footprint, develop camping and survival
skills, and discover what it means to be a leader and work on a team. 

This is our class website where we will post information, pictures,
videos, links, etc. about what we are doing throughout the semester.
This is a joint instructor/student website and it is integral that we
all contribute.  Your voice is super important!

I’m looking forward to our adventures this semester.  We are going to have a blast!