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Caribou Ranch open space sings with mellow hiking trails, mining and rail history

This mellow hike north of Nederland, Colo. offers a peaceful stroll through a large Rocky Mountain meadow, with a short side trail leading to an old silver mining camp.

Filed Under: Colorado Recreation & Environment, Rocky Mountain Hiking

White Ranch’s Rawhide trail traverses lush hills, meadows

The Rawhide trail in White Ranch outside of Golden, Colo. is an easy 4.8-mile hike.

Filed Under: Colorado Recreation & Environment, Rocky Mountain Hiking

The many faces of Golden’s North Table Mountain Park

Hiking this quiet Golden, Colo. landmark puts the visitor high above the Front Range.

Filed Under: Colorado Recreation & Environment, Rocky Mountain Hiking

Rocky Flats Nat’l Wildlife Refuge: Remembering to not forget

Chapters in the long Rocky Flats story include decades of weapons-grade plutonium production, fires, an FBI raid, closure of the facility, more than a dozen years of cleanup activities, and countless studies by government agencies.

Filed Under: Colorado Recreation & Environment, Rocky Mountain Ecology

Mountain pine beetle: Grim Reaper, widowmaker or natural ‘change agent’ for Colorado’s forests?

The tiny mountain pine beetle has feasted on Colorado’s lodgepole pine forests, turning countless acres of trees into dead wood. An autumn presentation on the tiny but powerful bug shed some light on how Colorado’s majestic forests will be impacted by the beetle infestation.

Filed Under: Colorado Recreation & Environment, Rocky Mountain Climate, Rocky Mountain Ecology, Rocky Mountain Forests

Wildfires in the West: From fanatical fire suppression to ‘stay & defend’

The history of wildfire and fire suppression in the U.S. is replete with stories of hubris, disaster and miscalculation. Stephen Pyne of Arizona State University shared some thoughts during a lecture in Boulder.

Filed Under: Colorado Recreation & Environment, Rocky Mountain Ecology, Rocky Mountain Forest Fires, Rocky Mountain Forests

The Ditch Project: Man-made tributaries of Boulder County transform natural landscape

By taming the water cascading down from the high mountains, water engineers turned the high-altitude, semi-arid desert of short-grass prairie into a lush, green urban landscape surrounded by irrigated farmland.

Filed Under: Colorado Recreation & Environment, Rocky Mountain Ecology

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