Category Archive: Ecology

When Plants Attack: The Fight Against Invasive Species in Boulder

Nancy Contreras, a junior at Fairview High School, helps to remove invasive Scotch thistle from Violet Park in Boulder. (Photo/Caitlin Rockett)

Local high school students join restoration professionals for an afternoon of weed pulling and ecological education.

Into The Weeds

As a professor of ecology runs a unique weed management program using creatures instead of chemicals.

Photosynthesis, Oct. 24: Leaves

This week’s theme — leaves — is just in time, as the winds shake them from the trees and forecasters call for snow.

Treemageddon Trashes Creek Trail in SE Boulder

The Confluence marks the northern end of Skunk Creek Greenway Trail, where it merges with the Boulder Creek Trail. Photo/University of Colorado Boulder

Strong winds and heavy snows have turned the city’s Skunk Creek Greenway Trail into a tree graveyard By Breanna Draxler The so-called “treemageddon” in Boulder this year has turned the banks of Skunk Creek into a tangle of trunks and broken branches. Early snows and strong winds delivered a devastating one-two punch to the city’s …

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Slippery Characters: Neotropical Pitvipers

Yellow-blotched palm-pitviper (Bothriechis aurifer). Photo/Tad Arensmeier via Wikimedia Commons

by Breanna Draxler Colorado is home to 20-some species of snake. Of these, only three fall into the category of venomous pitvipers–the prairie rattlesnake, the midget faded rattlesnake, and the western diamond back rattlesnake. But apparently three venomous species of snake are not enough to keep Robert Jadin occupied. Jadin is a scientist in CU’s …

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Know Your Forest

Colorado Forest. (Photo/Flickr user_G2).

by Brendon Bosworth Got forest on your land? Need help managing it? The Colorado State University Extension and the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service is offering a free five-part forestry webinar series, starting today, for those who want keep their trees in shape. Log on and learn about how best to care for your trees, …

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