Wild Aware: Protecting Wildlife and People, Season by Season
In Evergreen, Colorado, every season brings spectacular wildlife moments—along with new safety challenges.
In the fall, bull elk battle for dominance, sometimes charging hikers, pets, or cars. Bears roam neighborhoods in search of food, tipping trash bins and climbing on decks. Winter pushes deer, moose, and elk closer to roads and homes, raising the risk of collisions and conflict. By spring, protective elk mothers guard their newborn calves, while young animals face dangers from fences, traffic, and human interference.
Wild Aware is a Colorado nonprofit dedicated to encouraging, supporting, and enhancing the safe and rewarding coexistence of humans and wildlife. Through community-powered education, conservation, and collaboration, we bring people together to address these challenges and create safer spaces for both wildlife and people.
Our Barbed Wire Warriors program removes dangerous fencing from wildlife corridors, giving elk, deer, and other wildlife safer passage.
Wildlife Watch at Evergreen Lake places trained volunteers on the ground during elk rutting and calving seasons to prevent conflicts and promote safe viewing, sharing information about the behaviors of local wildlife.
Road Aware raises awareness and helps reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions through education, outreach, and partnerships with organizations like Colorado State Patrol and CDOT. We are especially proud of our new Drive Wild Aware: How to Drive Safely in Wildlife Country professional video, designed to teach drivers—especially younger ones—how to avoid the wildlife collisions that are all too common in wildlife country.
Through our Bear Den gatherings and Community Outreach Education, residents learn practical ways to coexist peacefully with our wild neighbors.
Wild Aware's success depends on you. Individual donors provide approximately half of the financial support that makes our work possible. With the support of our donors, volunteers, and community partners, we can continue this important work and help keep Colorado's communities safe, wild, and thriving.
👉 Learn more, volunteer, or donate at wildaware.org
Your Donation Makes This Work Possible
Your generosity supports wildlife conservation, education, volunteer initiatives, and the partnerships that help make our mission a reality.
Consider a Monthly Recurring Donation
Big changes happen through consistent support. Monthly donors provide dependable funding that allows us to plan ahead, strengthen our programs, support volunteers, and respond to emerging opportunities for wildlife conservation. In addition, a matching program from Colorado Gives for new recurring donations makes your gift go twice as far! Matching will only happen until the funds run out, so make sure to get yours set up early.
Whether it's $25, $50, $75, or $100 a month, recurring gifts add up to meaningful, lasting impact by protecting habitats and educating adults and children on meeting the needs of wildlife. By becoming a monthly donor, you're not just supporting what we're doing today; you're helping ensure Wild Aware can continue this work tomorrow and for years to come.
Join our community of monthly supporters and help keep wildlife conservation moving forward all year long.
Help Us Keep the Momentum Going
The work of protecting Colorado's wildlife is never finished. Your support allows us to strengthen existing programs, develop new initiatives, reach more communities, and build the partnerships needed to create lasting change.
When you give to Wild Aware, you're investing in a future where people and wildlife can thrive together.
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Share our Colorado Gives page, start your own fundraiser, or introduce Wild Aware to someone who cares about wildlife. Every share helps us reach someone new, and every new connection creates another opportunity to make a difference for wildlife.
Thank you for helping us build a community that cares!
Wild Aware encourages, supports, and enhances
the healthy, safe and rewarding coexistence of humans and wildlife.
Our Approach to Wildlife Coexistence -
Living in the foothills of Colorado means sharing our home with an abundance of wildlife. Having bears, elk, deer, and other wildlife as our neighbors is a privilege—one that comes with a responsibility to respect their needs, protect their habitat, and make choices that help keep wildlife wild and our communities safe.
Wild Aware recognizes that meaningful wildlife conservation takes collaboration. We have developed strong relationships with state wildlife agencies, state and county transportation and planning departments, nonprofit organizations, stakeholder groups, wildlife experts, and community partners. By bringing people and resources together, we help connect our communities with the information, tools, and opportunities needed to make a difference.
Our work extends beyond individual programs. We provide educational presentations and wildlife-awareness materials, connect residents with wildlife experts, engage with community and stakeholder groups on local planning and transportation projects, support wildlife-conscious policies and regulations, and create opportunities for hands-on conservation. From school-based education and community discussions to wildlife-awareness signage, research, advocacy, and volunteer initiatives, we're continually finding new ways to encourage responsible coexistence.
We believe lasting change happens when individuals, organizations, and communities work together. Every conversation, partnership, and action contributes to a safer future for both people and wildlife.
Organization name
Wild Aware
other names
Wild Aware Colorado
2019
Tax id (EIN)
85-3582497
Category
Animal-Related
Organization Size
Small Organization
Address
4176 RIDGE VILLAGE DREvergreen, CO, US, 80439
Conifer, CO, US, 80433
Kittredge, CO, US
Jefferson County, CO, US
Park County, CO, US