{"id":801210,"date":"2019-11-10T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=374144"},"modified":"2019-11-10T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T01:00:00","slug":"the-summit-foundation-names-kim-dufty-as-outstanding-board-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/the-summit-foundation-names-kim-dufty-as-outstanding-board-member\/","title":{"rendered":"The Summit Foundation names Kim Dufty as Outstanding Board Member"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Summit Foundation has named Kim Dufty, president of the Continental Divide Land Trust, as Outstanding Board Member for the foundation’s annual awards. She is pictured on Oct. 31.<\/strong>
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The Summit Foundation has named Kim Dufty, president of the Continental Divide Land Trust<\/a>, Outstanding Board Member for the foundation\u2019s annual awards. Dufty joined the land trust in April of 2014 and has been the president for almost as long when she was elected in October of that year.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut Dave Bittner actually beats me,\u201d Dufty said. \u201cHe was a past president and when he went to his first meeting, he was on the agenda to become the next president. My six months was not the shortest.\u201d<\/p>\n

Conservation is a passion of Dufty\u2019s. She grew up in Boulder and went to the University of Montana to pursue a degree in natural resource management with an emphasis in forestry. But most importantly, it runs in her blood. Her mother, JoAnn, would take the family on weeklong backpacking trips throughout the West and she joined the Continental Divide Land Trust in 1998. JoAnn served two, three-year terms before becoming a part of the emeritus board.<\/p>\n

All the while Kim was her mother\u2019s plus one at the various events, learning the ins and outs of the nonprofit organization\u2019s mission of preserving natural lands and wildlife habitats. When JoAnn passed away in 2013, Kim knew she had to continue her legacy.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the opportunity came up to be on the board, I couldn\u2019t say no.\u201d<\/p>\n

After college, Kim served two years in the Peace Corps in Papua New Guinea and continued her federal career with both the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management in Colorado, Wyoming, California and Nevada. \u201cThat\u2019s my zen,\u201d Dufty said. \u201cMy happy place is the outdoors.\u201d Eventually JoAnn\u2019s health started to fail and it was her love for her mother that brought Kim back to Summit County once Kim retired in 2012. \u201cI moved just over the hill and was able to be in her life more.\u201d Dufty said. \u201cBecause you never know how much long you have.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dufty was previously on the Literary Sojourn Board in Routt County and worked as a consultant for Alma\u2019s Mosquito Range Heritage Initiative, but the Continental Divide Land Trust was her first board presidency and largest undertaking. As the unpaid volunteer president, it was her duty to help the trust\u2019s one employee manage the day-to-day business.<\/p>\n

Dufty was nominated for the award by her fellow board members, spearheaded in an effort by Cecile Warner and Mary Jane \u201cMJ\u201d Wurster. Though the board no longer exists, having recently merged with Colorado Open Lands<\/a>, the award is a capstone that recognizes Dufty\u2019s hard work with the organization and its 25-year history.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s pretty overwhelming for that group of people to say I\u2019m the one\u201d Dufty said.<\/p>\n

Colorado Open Lands was founded in 1981 and Dufty believes that the nonprofit has the resources and vision to carry on the land trust\u2019s mission. For instance, the two are working on an easement by Whole Foods Market in partnership with the town of Frisco and the Army Corp of Engineers.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cOpen Lands has a specialist that\u2019s dedicated to dealing with permits with the Army Corp of Engineers,\u201d Dufty said. \u201cThis is why we signed the paperwork to merge with them. \u2026 Open Lands is going to be able to do things in Summit County that Continental Divide Land Trust could have never done. It\u2019s a good thing. Our 25 years of effort is in a good place.\u201d<\/p>\n

The land trust will likely go down in history as one of the key partners in the relocation of Colorado Highway 9<\/a> by the dangerous Leslie\u2019s Curve and Iron Springs easement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s our crowning achievement,\u201d Dufty said. \u201cThe county got more acres for the easement, the bike path is amazing, the highway is much safer and that\u2019s the partnership we help represent \u2014 to help protect forever. Now you get to ride along the lake shore and the wildlife tunnel is the old bike path that goes underneath the highway.\u201d<\/p>\n

Having attended the Summit Foundation\u2019s annual award ceremony for roughly 20 years, Dufty is grateful for the group\u2019s recognition.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Summit Foundation and this county, out of all the counties I\u2019ve live in in the West, this is the most giving county I have ever lived in. It is true philanthropy. \u2026 It\u2019s not just money. It\u2019s action and passion that supports the money.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Summit Foundation is amazing in that they give us the opportunity to recognize what makes this community unique and special,\u201d Dufty said. \u201cIt\u2019s pretty amazing. It\u2019s an inspiring evening, and that I\u2019m one of the people on the stage is a little overwhelming.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Summit Foundation has named Kim Dufty, president of the Continental Divide Land Trust, as Outstanding Board Member for the foundation’s annual awards. She is pictured on Oct. 31.Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com The Summit Foundation has named Kim Dufty, president of the Continental Divide Land Trust, Outstanding Board Member for the foundation\u2019s annual awards. Dufty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-801210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 13:54:49","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}