Staff
IPF's day-to-day activities are performed by two part-time consultants.
Mark Fuller has served as IPF's Executive Director since 1996. Mark oversees maintenance of completed projects on the Pass; plans for ongoing and new stabilization and revegetation projects, maintains liaison with the Board of Trustees and other agencies; organizes the annual Ride for the Pass, and directs the school children educational planting program.
Judith Olesen has served as IPF's Development Director since 1994. She is responsible for maintaining relationships with IPF supporters; developing requests to individuals, foundations, and government agencies; producing the bi-annual newsletter and other printed materials; developing and maintaining the website; and maintaining records of all gifts and grants to IPF.
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Volunteers
Every year various groups of volunteers assist IPF in a variety of ways. In 2005, volunteers contributed a total of 3,540 hours. Volunteers help present the annual “Ride for the Pass,” which raises funds to support IPF's projects on the Pass and at the same time raises community awareness of our mission. One of the most valuable ways in which volunteers support our work is by planting revegetation materials. Every year volunteers help plant seedling trees, native shrubs, and wildflowers in different places throughout the corridor.
An exciting volunteer project is the removal of metal snowfence material that has been damaging alpine tundra along the Pass summit for decades. This debris is left over from a 1960s water conservation project that was abandoned. IPF began this  monumental job 10 years ago. In the summer of 2005, Sierra Club volunteers, their leaders, and community volunteers spent two days collecting five tons of debris scattered over 20 acres and stockpiling it for future removal. Because the debris is located in a designated Wilderness Area, it can only be taken off the Pass by helicopter.
Sierra Club volunteers helped stockpile snow-fence debris in the summer of 2005.
America's Adventures is a private summer camp that takes teenagers on camping expeditions around the West. Each expedition includes a day or two of community volunteer labor, and for many years IPF has benefited from their assistance. In 2005, an America's Adventures group helped IPF plant seedling trees and shrubs at the Weller Cut about one-quarter mile west of the Weller Campground, installing a total of 160 plants at this difficult site.
Weller Cut is a steep slope, but America's Adventures volunteers are up to the challenge. |
