To help reduce temperatures and expand access to the benefits of urban trees, Boulder needs major investments to both maintain the health of the existing tree canopy and plant thousands of additional trees, most of which will need to be located on private land. This work builds on a recent regional strategy for urban forestry expansion.
Feeling down about climate change, wanting to do something, but not sure what? Consider propagating trees and giving them away!
Learn about best practices for tree care during winter in Colorado, to keep trees healthy and happy all year long!
Boulder is basically one big urban apple orchard with an abundance of fresh, healthy, affordable fruit for all!
Have you ever observed the abundance of apples growing throughout Boulder? There’s a reason why this surplus of fruit exists today. Learn how to care for fruit trees and protect Boulder’s wildlife.
If you look at old photos of Colorado Front Range cities, you won’t see many trees. And if you look up native trees of Colorado, you will find a lot of mountain-growing conifers and just a few deciduous trees that grow along streams. Learn about the history of tree stewardship in the Front Range.
The following instructions have been developed by Your Neighborhood Christmas Tree Farm which has grown trees from seed and given them away in Boulder for the past 15 years.
If you looked out across the Colorado Front Range hundreds of years ago, you would have seen grassy plains and very few trees. Growing trees in our region is difficult in wet years, let alone in drought years. What can you do during the hot, dry summer to help our leafy friends?
We all have superpowers. Every organism, every showing on this planet has something, some unique new purpose that fits perfectly in the constantly changing dance of life in this expanding universe.
