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Nature’s Classroom: Colorado Edible & Medicinal Native Plants, Oregon Grape
David Anthony Martin
This is the fifty-ninth in a series of articles from the staff of the Nature & Wildlife Discovery Center that will provide resources and outdoor activity ideas for students and families. The public can help the nonprofit NWDC get through this challenging time by making a donation at https://hikeandlearn.org/donate/. Join NWDC for guided hikes and other exciting nature programs listed here: https://hikeandlearn.org/programs-and-events/.
A late spring walk in our greenways and wild areas will reveal lot of wildflowers blooming, attracting pollinating insects and hummingbirds. Dandelions, of course, are a common and easily recognizable example, but another plant, commonly known as Oregon Grape, is also an important food source for bees and butterflies. Oregon Grape, Mahonia (or Berberis) repens is a member of the Barberry family, which grows in the foothills, montane, and subalp
This is the fifty-eighth in a series of articles from the staff of the Nature & Wildlife Discovery Center that will provide resources, ideas, and suggestions for families during the COVID-19 pandemic. Watch for future articles with outdoor activity ideas for students and families. The public can help the nonprofit NWDC get through this challenging time by making a donation at https://hikeandlearn.org/donate/. Join NWDC for guided hikes and other exciting nature programs listed here: https://hikeandlearn.org/programs-and-events/.
From the Archean Epoch to the Holocene to the Anthropocene, carbon has played a crucial role in the global ecosystem of the Earth, and the success and technological progress of human society. The Holocene saw the rapid worldwide proliferation, growth, and impacts of the last remaining human species. Human progress on Earth has had an exponentially increasing global impact, one that we are discovering a bit late significantly threatens our present well-being,
This is the fifty-sixth in a series of articles from the staff of the Nature & Wildlife Discovery Center that will provide resources, ideas, and suggestions for families during the COVID-19 pandemic. Watch for future articles with outdoor activity ideas for students and families. The public can help the nonprofit NWDC get through this challenging time by making a donation at https://hikeandlearn.org/donate/. Join NWDC for guided hikes and other exciting nature programs listed here: https://hikeandlearn.org/programs-and-events/.
One of the most crucial environmental concerns is reducing the amount of heat-trapping carbon in our planet’s atmosphere. But what is carbon? How did it get into our atmosphere, and why is the level of atmospheric carbon increasing? Why is this such a great concern to the well-being of life on Earth as we know it?