Wildlife Watch
Wildlife Watch At Evergreen Lake
Wildlife Watch Dates for 2024: Spring Season: May 17-June 30 Fall Season: September 20- October 27
Evergreen Lake is a magnet for both outdoor recreation seekers and wildlife. Sometimes, these two interests do not intersect well, such as when golfers share fairways with bull elk or fishers unwittingly stand between elk cows and their calves.
Recognizing the need to address these challenges, four organizations formed a volunteer team called “Wildlife Watch” with the goal of offering education and guidance for lake visitors.
Wild Aware works with the Evergreen Audubon Society, Evergreen Parks and Rec District, and Denver Mountain Parks to recruit and train volunteers for the program. Evergreen Audubon’s Nature Center staff has assembled a variety of teaching materials inside a wagon which the volunteers roll to various locations along the lake path. Displaying the cart laden with bio-facts, binoculars, & wildlife guides has given Wildlife Watch volunteers the means to entice curiosity & start conversations. Each year, hundreds of lake visitors stop at the cart to learn about the abundant wildlife in Colorado & the Evergreen vicinity.
Many lake visitors have little knowledge of wildlife species and habits, and the Wildlife Watch volunteers enjoy sharing their own personal experiences as well as wildlife facts.
Besides the crowd-pleasing elk, visitors can enjoy sightings of osprey, bald eagles, great blue herons, and other species.
Know before you go:
Care for Colorado Leave No Trace Principles
The Care for Colorado Leave No Trace Principles were created in a partnership between the Colorado Tourism Office and the Leave No Trace organization to address recreation-related impacts in Colorado.
