Tag: conservation
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El Paso County launches master plan effort to protect Paint Mines
El Paso County is starting work on a new master plan for Paint Mines Interpretive Park intended to help protect the archaeological value of the site and the colorful clay rock. The park that stretches across 775 acres in eastern El Paso County saw record-high visitation during the pandemic and more problems with vandalism, social…
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El Paso County launches master plan effort to protect Paint Mines
El Paso County is starting work on a new master plan for Paint Mines Interpretive Park intended to help protect the archaeological value of the site and the colorful clay rock. The park that stretches across 775 acres in eastern El Paso County saw record-high visitation during the pandemic and more problems with vandalism, social…
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LIFE | Colorado zoo helps in long effort to save imperiled toad
The morning of June 7, 2023 marked an annual, early summer tradition for Cheyenne Mountain Zoo and several other facilities tasked with raising the tiny, imperiled creature. June is typically when members of the Wyoming Toad Recovery Team converge at the Mortenson Lake National Wildlife Refuge outside Laramie, Wyo., to release toads to their only…
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Who’s Who at the Zoo | African Elephants
Meet the female African elephant herd at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. (Video by Skyler Ballard)
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LIFE | A butterfly oasis just beyond Denver
Into its 27th year, the Butterfly Pavilion in Westminster, Colo. is proud to call itself the only invertebrate-focused zoo of its kind accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums. Invertebrates are said to account for 94% of the world’s entire animal kingdom. That, along with their documented demise, underscores the importance of Butterfly Pavilion’s…
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Tipping Point: A Call for Change on the Colorado
One hundred years of the Colorado River Compact — the agreement that divides 15 million acre feet of water each year among the seven states of the Colorado River basin and Mexico — has wrecked on the shoals of climate change and 22 years of drought. It doesn’t work anymore. What happens when the law…
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Tipping Point: Colorado River tribes fight for their water rights
Some 10,000 households on the vast Navajo Nation, which covers 27,000 square miles in three states, are still without running water. Native American tribes hold some of the most senior water rights in the Colorado River Basin, but history has shown that having senior water rights and having water are two different realities. The tribes,…
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Tipping Point: Colorado River basin farms stunted by megadrought
Farmers across the Colorado River Basin are facing an uncertain future in agriculture as the river’s watershed faces ongoing drought, rising irrigation costs, and conservation cutbacks. (Video by Skyler Ballard)
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LIFE | Leadville National Fish Hatchery
The Leadville Fish National Hatchery is the second oldest federally operated fish hatchery in existence today. For 130 years, the hatchery has been increasing the supply of fish for inland waters. (Video by Skyler Ballard
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New mission hopes to achieve conservation, recreation dreams in Pikes Peak region
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A new effort aims to realize the Pikes Peak region’s “biggest, most ambitious conservation and recreation goals.” That’s the description of the initiative called Elevate the Peak, which was recently announced on a website launched by Colorado Springs-based Palmer Land Conservancy. The nonprofit with a…