Latino families have been known to come to Colorado to work, but Cal-Wood wants to show them how to enjoy the state's outdoor offerings, as well.
The Cal-Wood Education Center is teaching Colorado's Latino families how to camp and enjoy the plethora of outdoor activities within their reach.as in intern in 1989, he noticed he hadn't seen many other Latinos aspiring for a career in natural sciences and wildlife management as he was."Why don't Latinos go outdoors here?" Salgado recalls wondering to himself after landing in the Centennial State that year.
In 2014, Salgado was able to start the Latino Family Camps program, which still offers annual camps specifically for Latino families to teach them skills for outdoor recreation and how to enjoy public lands. Cal-Wood had 2,300 Latino participants in its programs last year, he says, with half of them being kids.
Salgado continued to wonder,"What's going on in this country, why aren't Latinos involved in the outdoors, recreational activities, the natural sciences like I was?" After speaking to people directly,he came up with his hypothesis:"Our people come here to work." "I wanted those same kids to come to Cal-Wood, to come with their families, so those families better understood all that Colorado offers," Salgado says."Not just for camping, but to go hiking, to fish, to hunt, everything that Colorado offers in this area."
"Those kids who are growing up with those families are more exposed to nature, more exposed to something that interests them, and that way, they want to study a career in the sciences," he says."But they have to start young." Last year, the Cal-Wood Latino Family Camps program hosted twenty weekend-long sessions for 60 families, including more than 600 family members. They were able to spend time in the Rocky Mountain National Park and the forest around Cal-Wood, which is part of Arapahoe-Roosevelt National Forest, as well as state and local parks.
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