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Regina Lopez-Whitesunk is the 2022 Wild Feast special guest speaker and is an enrolled member of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe of Towaoc, working for Montezuma Land Conservancy as the Cross-Cultural Programs Manager. This event helped to raise critical funds to protect Colorado’s public lands and waters to help stop the climate crisis.
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Dr. Dan West discusses Colorado’s major bark beetle species and a recent history of beetle epidemic locations shown from an Aerial Detection Survey. Did you know that weather plays a crucial role in insect and disease activity in Colorado’s forests?
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What can we do to bring back our birds and save the planet? Arvind Panjabi provides a synopsis of the state of our bird populations, both locally and continentally, and talks about the loss of 3 billion birds over the last half-century.
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Learn from local Bureau of Land Management (BLM) wildlife biologist, Hilary Boyd, how the agency is using goats to increase plant diversity at Sutey Ranch, reduce noxious weeds after the Lake Christine Fire, and improve a variety of conditions for wildlife and livestock in other parts of the Roaring Fork Valley.
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Soil has been getting a lot of attention recently for its potential to store carbon from the atmosphere. But what is the realistic potential for carbon sequestration in soils, how could we do it, and how does soil carbon work?