Protecting Our Forests

Vail Resorts and the National Forest Foundation, a nonprofit partner of the U.S. Forest Service, have partnered to raise money for conservation projects in Colorado's White River National Forest and the national forests of Lake Tahoe Basin in California and Nevada, where we operate our five mountain resorts of Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone and Heavenly.

An essential investment.
We offer guests at our mountain resorts the opportunity to participate in this special fundraising effort by contributing $1 on season passes, $1 on online lift ticket transactions and $1 per room night at our Colorado-based lodging properties.

Proceeds collected by our Company are matched with additional funds by the National Forest Foundation and donated to fund conservation projects in the two forest areas, which total more than 2.3 million acres. These projects include trail and forest recreation improvements, wildlife habitat and watershed restoration, and community-based forestry programs.

Making a difference.
In April 2007, our company donated $225,815 to seven non-profit organizations for conservation projects in Colorado's White River National Forest. The following organizations and projects were selected by the National Forest Foundation to receive funding:

• Wilderness Volunteers, Gore Range Trail and Maroon-Snowmass Trail Wilderness Service Trips
• Friends of the Eagle Nest Wilderness, Wilderness Ecosystem Improvement Project
• Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers (RFOV), RFOV 2007 Trail Projects
• Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado (VOC), 2007 VOC Summit County Projects
• Eagle County Youth Conservation Corps, Eagle County Youth Conservation Corps-Project Season 2007
• Colorado Fourteeners Initiative, 2007 White River Fourteeners Project
• Rocky Mountain Youth Corps, Youth Corps Conservation Project