Copper’s ski conservation summit fosters method sharing, brainstorming centered around sustainability on the slopes
July 26, 2023
On Wednesday, July 26, Copper Mountain Resort hosted sustainability officials, students and ski industry leaders for its summer ski conservation summit.
Last year at the summit, Copper Mountain announced the beginning of its 10-year carbon sequestration program that focuses on increasing the biodiversity on Copper’s slopes by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and holding it in liquid or solid form. In this case, it would be in the soil, where most of the world’s carbon is stored.
This year’s conservation summit continued to focus on the work Copper is doing to increase biodiversity on its slopes, but it also allowed other nearby ski resorts like Arapahoe Basin Ski Area, Eldora Mountain and Sunlight Mountain Resort to share their insights on climate change and the preventive measures they are taking to curb its effects. Copper Mountain senior resort operations and sustainability manager Jeff Grasser talked a little about the goal of the summit.
