Alejandro Jaquez-Caro, who was hired as Wilderness Workshop’s new Defiende Nuestra Tierra program director in July, uses a rake to spread mulch over the soil at Veltus Park in Glenwood Springs on Sept. 13. Jaquez-Caro wants to help make public lands more accessible to Latino and immigrant communities, even as the Trump administration rolls back federal DEI efforts at land-management agencies such as the Forest Service. Eleanor Bennett/Aspen Journalism and Aspen Public Radio

Despite the rollback of federal diversity, equity and inclusion programs and concerns over increased immigration enforcement , Latino families, students and other volunteers showed up to plant trees at Veltus Park in Glenwood Springs on Sept. 13 to kick off Latino Conservation Week.

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