NewsRack: 'Plants' news in 'Biodiversity-Regional' topic for user flenvcenter

Community Agriculture Alliance: Enhance the Yampa Valley's biodiversity with native plants	16.5.2013	Steamboat Pilot
Last year, I thought that using similar species in my gardens and other landscaping would benefit our local pollinators and wildlife just the same as our true natives. Turns out that is not always the case.
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Saving Utah’s sage grouse	11.5.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
by Mark Salvo And Allison Jones Published May 11, 2013 01:01AM MDT Greater sage grouse endure icy winters and blazing summers on the high desert, subsisting on little more than wildflowers and tiny, bitter sagebrush leaves. Some flocks migrate over a hundred miles annually between summer and winter habitat. But every spring they arrive faithfully to their dancing grounds, called leks, to stage flamboyant mating displays. The largest grouse in North America, sage grouse are amazing birds. Nineteenth century travelers reported seeing huge flocks of sage grouse th... ...
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State: Parachute Creek pipeline spill may violate waste-disposal laws	2.5.2013	Denver Post: News: Local
State: Parachute Creek pipeline spill may violate waste-disposal laws
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Parting of the waves	1.5.2013	Durango Herald
In simpler and perhaps less environmentally sensitive times of the mid-1970s, a whitewater enthusiast drove a bulldozer into the Animas River to push a boulder downstream and remove an obstruction for sports like kayaking and rafting, says longtime paddler John Brennan.Such initiative helped put Durango on the map with one of the...
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Health officials say creek pollution controlled	30.4.2013	Denver Post: News: Local
Health officials say creek pollution controlled
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Meeting scheduled on Parachute Creek contamination	29.4.2013	Headlines: All Headlines
PARACHUTE, Colo.—Garfield County officials are holding a community meeting for residents interested in speaking with state and federal officials about the investigation of benzene levels
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The life and rituals of Northwest Colorado’s native grouse	14.4.2013	Steamboat Pilot
To catch a grouse in its mating dance, you have to wake long before the break of dawn and travel to a lek, likely finishing the journey on foot.
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Source of Parachute oil spill identified, state investigating impact	11.4.2013	Denver Post: Local
Source of Parachute oil spill identified, state investigating impact
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Citizen scientists stretch their wings and research dollars	7.4.2013	Denver Post: News: Local
Citizen scientists stretch their wings and research dollars
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Red Butte Garden in bloom with Utah species and others	5.4.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
by Paul Beebe The Salt Lake Tribune Published Apr 4, 2013 03:29PM MDT Don’t go to Red Butte Garden looking for tulips this spring. There aren’t any. “Tulips, for us, are expensive squirrel food,” said Marita Tewes-Tyrolt, director of horticulture at the garden. “They dig them up by the hundreds. Bulbs of tulips are edible, and the squirrels have figured that out.” Instead, go see daffodils, some 215,000 of them, as well as banks of Dutch iris, Siberian squill, glory of the snow and other miniature bulb species beginning to bloom. Their peak season usually runs fr... ...
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Do you know dirt about soil? Here's a three-step primer	29.3.2013	Denver Post: Lifestyles
Gardeners obsess over that stuff in the ground. Year after year, we throw potions and powders at it to break it apart and build it up. But most people don't know dirt about soil. That's a big problem.
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Benzene from gas plant leak polluting groundwater near Parachute Creek	29.3.2013	Denver Post: Local
Benzene from gas plant leak polluting groundwater near Parachute Creek
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Valve box may be source of spill from gas plant near Parachute Creek	27.3.2013	Denver Post: Local
Valve box may be source of spill from gas plant near Parachute Creek
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Editorial: Denver area's water utilities need your help	20.3.2013	Denver Post: Opinion
The numbers don't look good and haven't for some time. Reservoir levels are down and so are stream flows. Snowpack isn't much better than in February.
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Climate change: Five ways it's already affecting the planet	19.3.2013	Denver Post: National News Headlines
Climate change remains controversial, with a significant number of Americans saying it's exaggerated and many lawmakers disputing the science.
Steamboat Springs urban renewal group plans $240,000 in landscaping at Mount Werner Circle	12.3.2013	Steamboat Pilot
The new plantings in the road medians on Mount Werner Circle would be chosen with water conservation and cost of upkeep in mind.
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Record $310,000 paid to hunt Utah mule deer on Antelope Island	8.3.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
by Brett Prettyman The Salt Lake Tribune Published Mar 8, 2013 07:49AM MDT Idaho hunter Dennis Austad already owns one world hunting record set in Utah by taking the biggest Rocky Mountain bull elk ever recorded by the Boone & Crockett Club during a 2008 outing on Monroe Mountain. Austad set a different kind of record during the recent Western Hunting & Conservation Expo held in Salt Lake City by bidding $310,000 for the right to hunt a buck mule deer on Antelope Island this fall. “That’s a record for all deer hunting permits,” said Miles Moretti, CEO of the Mule Deer... ...
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Pollinator problems	5.3.2013	From the Blogs
New research shows how much we rely on native bees and other pollinators.
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Commissioners seek more information on bird	28.2.2013	Telluride: News
San Miguel County Commissioners held an hour-long public phone conference with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials to discuss the Gunnison sage-grouse at their meeting Wednesday.
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Red Butte aims to ‘seduce’ with new water conservation garden	21.2.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
by Lindsay Whitehurst The Salt Lake Tribune Published Feb 21, 2013 08:43AM MDT If the words “water conservation gardening” bring to mind gravel and cacti, Greg Lee has some plants he’d like you to meet. There’s zauschneria, a red honeysuckle-like flower commonly known as California fuchsia, and penstemon, a brilliantly colored native Utah plant that comes in a variety of colors. “You can have a beautiful garden that’s very well adapted to the climate here, so you don’t have to apply huge amounts of water,” said Lee. As the executive director of Red Butte Garden, Lee is i... ...
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