Slow and steady wins the race. That’s what I keep telling myself. April 12, 2017 Project location: Central Visayas, Philippines Fourteen months after applying for the CCC Student Fellowship, it feels like we are finally making headway towards the design …
By: Tchanan Ross Location: Deadwood, Oregon Attempting to briefly summarize my reflections on the February 2017 journey of Team Kenya is definitely challenging. Grief over losing my son has been primarily quiet, deeply humbling, eviscerating, and at moments de-stabilizing and I know …
By: Johnny Sundstrom Location: Kenya When our son, Shiloh, was killed in a hit-and-run accident (November 22, 2015), he’d been to Kenya 4 times for a total of about one year, studying and doing research for his graduate degrees, looking for ways …
By: Brett Kaufman Location: Beijing, China Last month I returned from a trip to Kenya funded by CCC and Oregon State University, and it was one of the most impactful experiences of my life. As an archaeologist interested in the fusion of …
Perspectives on Kenya from a Montana Rancher So how does a rancher/logger (the order of which depends on which profession is supplementing the other) from western Montana come to find himself in Kenya with another rancher/scholar (Johnny Sundstrom) and a group …
By: Gailmarie Kimmel Location: Northern Colorado Hello! I keep waiting for the final good news to share but realize that CCC readers might well appreciate the details… • December 2016: The Great Outdoors Colorado Grant that Colorado Open Lands submitted to complete the conservation easement funding for …
By: Tony Quy Van Khuc Tuesday, September 27, 2016 Location: Fort Collins, CO I have had a very great summer in U Minh Thuong National Park (UMTNP), where I went to study an endangered bat species. This park in South Vietnam means …
By: Johnny Sundstrom Location: Blog Earlier this year, Johnny Sundstrom of the Suislaw Institute in Oregon, and Paul Meiliara of SORALO (South Rift Landowners Association) in Kenya, travelled to Montana for a two-day get-together with the BlackFoot Challenge, hosted by Gary Burnett, …
By: Gailmarie Kimmel Location: Northern Colorado Hi readers, Good news from the Farmland Coop. We’ve just partnered with Colorado Open Lands (COL) – one of our state’s largest non-profit land conservation orgnizations – to successfully submit a grant to GOCO-Great Outdoors Colorado, …
By: Suzanne Kent Location: Fort Collins, CO Team Honduras was again united—this time in Utila—and finally the team members and all Utilian partners were together. Keri Brondo arrived at the start of July and immediately began connecting and collaborating with our partner …
