Our hearts are full of gratitude as we bid a fond farewell to our longest serving board member and the Chair of our Board, Glen Busch. Glen Busch, BRLC Board Chair from 2022-2026 I am not the type of person who seeks out the spotlight. I’m much more comfortable working in the background, but I am stepping away from the board at the end of this year. This has caused me to reflect on how much we have accomplished: both as an organization and as a community. I have been involved

Mark and Cheryl Brunson at our Mendon Meadow Preserve While the Ute ladies’-tresses depend on fungi, cattle and bees to bloom, they rely on a very special pair of humans to keep track of them all. For 15 years, Mark and Cheryl Brunson have served as Mendon Meadows official (and self proclaimed) “Orchid Wardens." What began as a quiet commitment has grown into an annual tradition. Every year, Mark and Cheryl kick off their monitoring season on Pioneer Day. Every single week fr

Written by Jaimi Butler, Stewardship and Outreach Director I have a confession to make. I've been thinking and writing about Ute Ladies Tresses so much lately that I'm pretty sure my friends are going to stage an intervention. I just can't shut up about them. In my recent article, It Takes a Village, I wrote about how these rare native orchids spend years, sometimes a decade, lurking completely underground in the dark before finally sending up their delicate, spiraling white