Informe de la cabecera de cuenca del rĂ­o Colorado

Para comprender a plenitud a alguien, debes comenzar por su nacimiento. Por lo tanto, Michelle y yo pasamos los Ășltimos dos dĂ­as buscando la cabecera de cuenca del rĂ­o Colorado entre el frĂ­o y la nieve que se encuentran arriba de la zona de La Poudre Pass, al norte del Parque Nacional de las Montañas Rocosas. El acceso se hace por la carretera Long Draw, que sale de la autopista 14 de Colorado. La carretera Long Draw es un camino serpenteante de terracerĂ­a lleno de baches que atraviesa 22 km de bosques de pinos y abetos y pasa por el reservorio Long Draw antes de terminar abruptamente en una llanura de sauces. ...

November 4, 2017 Â· 4 min Â· norris

Fundraiser: systemic change to protect prairie dogs from developers

As we’ve reported here before, members of Deep Green Resistance Colorado, in partnership with Wildlands Defense, have been campaigning to protect a large prairie dog population from developers intent on building the largest mall in America. Many local Castle Rock, CO residents gave near-unanimous testimony on behalf of delaying construction a few months, to at least relocate the prairie dogs in a marginally humane manner before destroying their homes. Yet the town council and the developers collaborated to painfully gas the prairie dogs, to make “the problem” go away. (And to minimize the danger of any protected raptors, who predate on prairie dogs, complicating the project by being present at a required upcoming bird count.) ...

March 30, 2015 Â· 2 min Â· norris