How Beavers Fight Drought & Wildfire
Imagine the broad mountain valley or gentle forest stream closest to you, all of it, awash in biodiversity teeming with pollinators, native insects, birds, fish, and plants you never knew existed, bordered by fast-growing willows, alders, cottonwood, aspen. Here, rivers and streams do not rush furiously in a single gully-like channel to the sea; rather, they meander on their floodplains, saturating soils, bringing this paradise to life from mountain headwaters down to their valleys.
Environmental Groups Demand Urgency from Air Quality Control Commission
ESTES PARK – Environmental groups including 350 Colorado “stopped the clock” at the Air Quality Control Commission’s retreat in Estes Park Thursday, with a message that we are out of time to address climate and air quality issues. Though the initial AQCC retreat plan included a time for public comment according to information released earlier this year, the final agenda had changed to exclude public comment, limiting any public interaction to the “meet and greet.”