Make a difference today by helping SCLT programs secure what is needed most. If you want to make any of these items a reality, please specify the item(s) you would like to support with a note when you make your gift. Some of the items below include links to the specific need. If you have any of these items and can donate them, please contact SCLT directly by calling our office at (307) 673-4702 or by emailing any member of our staff.

Conservation Program, Big Goose Natural Area, Ridgetop Natural Area, & Gillispie Draw Natural Area

• $250 or less
  • ($129) Picnic Table for shaded outdoor classroom
  • ($230) Cordless grease gun for equipment maintenance used to maintain the Natural Areas.
  • ($240) 25-gallon pump sprayer to make control of noxious weeds easier and more efficient to keep our natural areas full of healthy native vegetation.
• $10,000
  • Skid steer brush mower to remove invasive vegetation from our natural areas, and other conservation projects in the area.
  • A two row side-by-side for conservation easement monitoring, site visits, and natural area maintenance.
  • A gooseneck or bumper pull flatbed trailer with a minimum GVWR of at least 12,000 pounds to transport equipment and materials to project sites.

Recreation Program

• Soldier Ridge Trail System
  • $5,000 to $10,000 – New Pond Loop Trail at the Gillispie Draw Natural Area (the pond near Hidden Hoot Trail).
• Big Goose Natural Area
  • $20,000 to $35,000 – Makes trails more accessible to more people by extending the hard-pack gravel trails.
• Maintenance Tools / Consumables
  • $25-$100
    • Consumables – Weedeater string, air filters, replacement parts, 2-stroke mix, mower blades, screws, nuts & bolts, saw blades, grease
    • Hand tools – Rakes, shovels, saws, loppers, picks
  • $100 – $1,000
    • Equipment – Weedeaters, two wheel string trimmer, drills, chainsaws, wheelbarrows
    • Supplies – Dog waste stations and refills, sign materials,
  • $15,000 – $35,000 –
    
    • Canycom material haulers – Building and maintaining trail means moving material like dirt gravel and rock. Moving more at once means reduced labor costs and faster project completion.

History Program

• $100 or less
  • A volunteer to make matching wooden frames for the historic original interpretive sign from the 1976 streetcar restoration and our current sign.
• $1,000 or less
  • Research and documentation, publications, educational materials, digital history stories, registration and travel to Land Trust Alliance Rally for professional development
• $5,000
  • Historic site preservation, National Register of Historic Places nominations, public events, oral history projects
• Any amount
  • Contribute to our Historic Preservation Easement Revolving Fund that helps landowners defray the costs of entering into a Historic Preservation Easement with SCLT to preserve key local histories.
• Streetcar Project
  • Windows & Doors – Install frames, sashes, fittings – $2,000 to $3,000 for labor

SCLT Welcome Center

• $1,800 Pergola for picnic table just outside the Welcome Center.
• $1,455 – Office Carpet – Replace Beth’s office carpet. While it has been shampooed, it is stained from its previous use.
• $300 – Materials for ADA hand railing for ADA entrance ramp. SCLT staff will install.
• $28.55 each – Two exterior safety lights for winter months when it is dark leaving the office and for night programs.
• $97.32 – Countertop ice maker to help keep drinks cool for summer events and volunteers.
• $2,700 – Touch TV for Welcome Center. Put all our maps and projects in the hands of visitors.
• $545 – Kitchen supplies for Welcome Center Programs
• $1,815 – Interpretative spaces in the Welcome Center. Creation of the “Curiosity Corner” and “Observation Post”. Bruce would do the construction
• $140 – Retro viewer – allows us to take the photos “off the wall” and put history photos in folks hands. We currently have an antique stereoscope which draws a lot of attention from youth and adults when we have put out during tabled events. We are hoping the retro view will lead to the same excitement both for tabling and for our Welcome Center.