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Pub. Date
2007.
Description
This report details a strategy for control of invasive plants found at nine military installations located along the Front Range of Colorado and Wyoming. Invasive plant species control plans have been written for six of the nine installations. These plans suggest which weeds are top priorities for control at each installation. They also have specific on-the-ground control recommendations for each noxious weed species that has been documented at the...
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Series
Miscellaneous volume no. 196
Pub. Date
[1943]
Description
Considerable interest was created in the spring of 1942 in the Guayule plant as a source of rubber. While the native range of the plant is south of the Colorado border, inquiries from various sections of the state presented the problem of whether the guayule plants will grow and survive the winters in Colorado.
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Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Over the last 30 years declines in greater sage-grouse populations have occurred across much of their range. Breeding populations had declined by an estimated 17-47% since the mid 1970s, a trend that has paralleled significant changes in the sagebrush habitats essential for the species. The primary factors affecting this change in sagebrush habitats differ by region and state but include changes in fire regime, conversion to cropland and seeded grasslands,...
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Pub. Date
[2014].
Description
Bell's twinpod (Physaria bellii) is a small, yellow-flowered plant in the Brassicaceae (Mustard Family) that is known only from the Front Range in Boulder and Larimer counties, Colorado, and is considered to be imperiled at a global and state level. One of the biggest conservation issues for this imperiled plant species is the lack of awareness of its existence and status. Avoiding or minimizing impacts to this species during road maintenance activities...