Conservation Corner Articles

Conifers at the Crossroads by Renee Galeano-Popp It’s a long story. Some say it all started with the colonists and the Pine Tree Riot of 1772 in New England. But first let’s talk about white pines. White pines are in the Strobus subgenus of Pinus and are...

Stream Restoration after the 2013 Floodsby Mo Ewing On September 16, 2015 the Denver Post carried an article entitled, “Big Thompson restoration to start soon” (Johnson 2015). It has been two years since the historic floods of 2013. Roads and infrastructure projects...

In 2014, I had the opportunity to search for Eutrema penlandii on Mt. Evans with a number of botanists and Colorado Native Plant Society members. When speaking with them, I realized that most of the ‘alpine native plant community’ know nothing about the efforts being...

In March 2015 Jennifer Ackerfield will publish the first complete Flora of Colorado since Harold Harrington's 1964 Manual of Plants of Colorado.  Her 800+ page book will contain 3,322 taxa (species, subspecies and varieties), 912 color photos, most of which she took...

From his collecting visits in the 1950s, to an article he wrote in Aquilegia in August 1991, to the present day, Bill Weber has been a champion for Summit Lake on Mount Evans. In 1965 Bill nominated Summit Lake for designation as a National Natural Landmark because it...