About Us

Connor P. Coleman founded Carbondale-based Resiliency Lands, LLC in 2016 to serve landowners of the Western Slope of Colorado, and beyond, as a progressive, conservation-minded land management advisory group committed to promoting resource resiliency. Prior to founding Resiliency Lands, Mr. Coleman served as the Stewardship Director at Aspen Valley Land Trust where he oversaw the perpetual conservation of over 170 properties spanning from Independence Pass to DeBeque, Colorado. He possesses a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science focusing on wildlife ecology from Catawba College along with a Master of Environmental Management and a Master of Forestry (accredited by the Society of American Foresters) from the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University focusing on the sustainable management and restoration of landscape-scale lands. Mr. Coleman has worked for multiple land management/conservation entities over the past fifteen years including The Nature Conservancy, U.S. Department of Defense, and multiple local land trusts, where collectively he was responsible for the administration of over 400 conservation easements.

He has been a certified wildland firefighter for over 15 years, is a certified Pitkin County Wildfire Hazard Mitigation Professional, and is trained in Holistic Grazing Management practices. In 2016, he was appointed by the U.S. Secretary of the Interior to the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Northwest Colorado Resource Advisory Council (RAC) and served on the steering committee for the Roaring Fork Valley Future Forest Roundtable from 2014 to 2019. Mr. Coleman is a member of the following professional societies: Society of Ecological Restoration International, The Wildlife Society, Society of Range Management, and the Association for Fire Ecology and has been identified as a “stewardship expert” by the national Land Trust Alliance. He recently obtained his Certificate in Advanced Ranch Management through the King Ranch Institute of Ranch Management at Texas A&M University - Kingsville.