Events Search and Views Navigation
September 2022
Save our Swallows Event
Join us at Roger's Grove Nature Area at the picnic pavilion next to the bathrooms on Sunday, July 24th from 9am to 11am to learn about our nesting Bank Swallow colony and sign a postcard to ask the City to protect their habitat. We'll have spotting scopes available for you to view the swallows before they migrate south for the winter. Postcards will be presented to City Council to ask that they and City staff prevent the destruction of their…
Find out more »Save Our Swallows Postcard Presentation
Stand With Our St. Vrain Creek will be presenting YOUR Save Our Swallows postcards to Longmont City Council at the September 6th City Council meeting. Please consider showing your support for the Bank Swallows at Roger's Grove and the City's efforts to restore their nesting habitat by attending and wearing green during the Public Invited to Be Heard portion of the meeting (if you need to leave afterward, you can feel free to do so). Thank you for your efforts…
Find out more »November 2022
Zoom Presentation: The Northern Colorado Front Range Nesting Bald Eagle Population–New Facts and a Bit of Fiction
Our partner organization Front Range Nesting Bald Eagle Studies is hosting a Zoom presentation on the Colorado Front Range nesting Bald Eagle population: facts and fiction. Does the Northern Colorado Front Range now host a more urbanized bald eagle population such as in the wet climes of south-coastal British Columbia? Or is our bald eagle population perhaps closer in character to those found in drier, southwestern states like Arizona? Join Front Range Nesting Bald Eagle Studies as we take a look…
Find out more »June 2023
Celebrate National Trails Day at Buttonrock Preserve
The City of Longmont will celebrate National Trails Day on Saturday, June 3rd, at the Button Rock Preserve. The city is recruiting volunteers to build steps along the Hummingbird trail. If you are a hiker, this is an opportunity to give back to the community in a meaningful way by helping to maintain our trail system at Button Rock. You can register and find more information regarding the Button Rock event here: https://joinus.longmontcolorado.gov/ActivityVolunteerRegistration/26c277b8-df6c-4458-bd7b-970358f35bcb There will be snacks and live music…
Find out more »June 2024
City Council Meeting
Please consider showing up wearing green to the June 25th Longmont City Council meeting to show your support for putting the permanent extension of Longmont's Open Space Sales Tax on the November 2024 ballot.
Find out more »July 2024
City Council Meeting
City Council has voted to add the Open Space Sales Tax permanent extension to the November 2024 ballot! Thank you to everyone who signed our appeal and/or showed up to City Council to show your support for the measure. We’re looking for people to show up at City Council on Tuesday, July 23rd wearing green to show your continued support. The Longmont Natural Resources department will be making a presentation tomorrow regarding the Open Space program and future acquisitions/maintenance costs in response to…
Find out more »August 2024
City Council Meeting Open Space Sales Tax Ballot Measure First Reading
This Tuesday, August 13th, City Council will be reviewing an ordinance making Longmont's Open Space Sales Tax permanent and deciding whether to put the measure on the ballot this November. Stand is asking supporters to attend this "first reading", specifically the Public Invited to Be Heard section of the meeting, to show their support for the ordinance. Please wear green.
Find out more »August 2025
DELAYED: City Council Meeting: Distel-Tull Land Swap
Due to negotiations with Holcim, City Council voted to delay the vote on the land swap until further notice. City Council will be reviewing and voting on whether or not to approve the Distel-Tull land swap on Tuesday, August 12th at 7pm. Please consider attending for the public invited to be heard portion of the meeting (at the beginning of the meeting) and wearing green to show support for our Open Spaces. If you are unable to attend, or would…
Find out more »June 2026
City Council Meeting June 9, 2026 at 7pm
City Council will be voting on whether or not to move forward with a ballot measure that would amend the City's Charter to add "Open Space properties" to section 13.2. If approved by voters, this amendment would prevent the sale or disposition of Open Space properties without the approval of Longmont voters. We are asking that people show up to City Council on June 9th at 7pm wearing green to show their support for putting this measure on the ballot…
Find out more »CANCELLED 6/30/26 City Council Meeting
City Council will be discussing and voting on Longmont Friends of Open Space's (Stand With Out St Vrain Creek) recommendations for shoring up Open Space protections and preventing another Distel/Tull Open Space disposition debacle on Tuesday, June 30th at 7:00pm. We are asking supporters of these recommendations to show up for the Public Invited To Be Heard portion of the meeting (at the beginning of the meeting) wearing green to show your support.
Find out more »