Badly in need of new infrastructure and a new business model, the facility has begun its resurgence with a new mission — to be an “epicenter of reforestation”
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Posted inBook Excerpts
In “Trees and Other Witnesses,” a story connects healing traditions to new life
Kathy Taylor’s short story “Tree of the Little Hands” describes a couple carving out a life and a family — in the shadow of a tree.
Posted inOpinion
Opinion: A beautiful synchronicity, in peril
Sixty years ago, I lived just a few hundred feet from the banks of Cherry Creek, which was lined with groves of majestic cottonwood trees. And every year, as summer approached, we kids enjoyed the “snow.” It wasn’t the wet snow of winter, but that of near-summer: a profusion of cottonwood seeds, attached to “cotton” […]
Posted inOpinion, Opinion Columns
Pritchett: As it finally arrives, I’ve written a love letter to snow
If water is the essence of life, then snow is its most playful expression. Consider the wackiness of snow: It’s one of nature’s most fragile compositions, yet its heft can cause great damage. Each flake so tiny—often .05 inch—but from one comes large swaths of blizzards! And while it’s certainly wet, fresh snow is 90% […]
Posted inClimate, Environment, News
Why climate change is making it harder to peep leaves
By Patrick Whittle, The Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine — Droughts that cause leaves to turn brown and wither before they can reach peak color. Heat waves prompting leaves to fall before autumn even arrives. Extreme weather events like hurricanes that strip trees of their leaves altogether. For a cheery autumnal activity, leaf peeping is facing […]
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Opinion: Business and community partnerships can help create an environmentally sustainable future
At a time when the effects of climate change are felt across the country, including here in Colorado, it’s critical that we advance solutions like renewable energy and other clean technologies; invest in nature-based solutions such as trees; reduce waste, reuse items and recycle; and conserve water and other natural resources. We can all play […]
Posted inEnvironment, News, Outdoors
Downed tree samples are aiding research of last snow season’s epic avalanche cycle in Colorado
By Scott Condon, The Aspen Times ASPEN — Mike Cooperstein and Jason Konigsberg maneuvered a 6-foot long cross-cut saw with menacing teeth into position Tuesday on a hulking spruce trunk that was ripped out of the ground by an avalanche in March 2019. “It makes a ringing sound when you get a groove going,” said […]
Posted inEnvironment, News
Colorado’s strong 2019 snowpack decreased bark beetle impact on trees
GRAND JUNCTION — Abundant Colorado snowpack helped reduce 2019 bark beetle activity impacting trees, but the following wet spring contributed to tree defoliation, a new report said. The findings were part of an annual U.S. Forest Service and Colorado State Forest Service aerial survey evaluating forest health impacts from insects and disease, The Daily Sentinel reports. […]
Posted inEnvironment, News, Outdoors
Colorado plans to abandon its battle against the emerald ash borer
Mike Swanson stands under a thinning canopy of the wounded-but-still-standing, bluntly assessing the enemy. Here on Evergreen Hill, in the heights of Washington Park, acting Denver forester Swanson is surrounded by the ghosts of soldiers cut down in their relative youth. They gave their all for the mission of bringing shade to a high-desert metropolis. […]