#colorado springs

[reasonsforhope]

"Next Monday [6/17/24] is the start of National Pollinator Awareness Week, and one Colorado advocacy group is hosting a flower planting drive to rewild Colorado’s meadows, gardens, and just maybe, its children too.

Created by constitutional amendment in 1992, Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO) is a state-funded independent board that invests a portion of Colorado Lottery proceeds to help preserve and enhance the state’s parks, trails, wildlife, rivers, and open spaces.

This year, GOCO’s offshoot Generation Wild is distributing over 100,000 free packets of wildflower seeds to collection points at museums, Denver Parks and Rec. offices, and libraries all over the state to encourage kids and families to plant the seeds in their backyards.

The Save the Bees! initiative aims to make the state more beautiful, more ecologically diverse, and more friendly to pollinators.

According to a new report from the Colorado Department of Natural Resources, 20% of Colorado’s bumblebees are now at risk of extinction. Even in a small area like a backyard, planting wildflowers can make a positive impact on the local ecosystem and provide native bees with a healthy place to live.

“The Western Bumblebee population has declined in Colorado by 72%, and we’re calling on kids across Colorado to ‘bee’ the change,” said GOCO Executive Director Jackie Miller.

Named after Generation Wild’s official mascot “Wilder,” the Wilderflower Seed Mix was developed in partnership with Applewood Seed Co. and packets are now available for pickup at designated partner sites including more than 80 Little Free Library boxes.

By distributing 100,000 Wilderflower packets, Generation Wild is providing more than 56 million seeds for planting in every nook and cranny of the state. All seeds are regionally-native to Colorado, which is important for sustaining the living landscape of bees, birds, and other animals.

Additionally, by using flower species adapted to the Mile High climate, landscapers and gardeners need to use less water than if they were tending non-native plants.

“Applewood Seed Co. was excited to jump in and help Generation Wild identify a seed mix that is native to the Colorado region and the American West, containing a diversity of flower species to attract and support Colorado’s pollinator populations,” stated Norm Poppe, CEO of Applewood Seed Co. “We hope efforts like this continue to educate the public on pollinator conservation and the need to protect our native bees and butterflies.”

Concluding her statement Miller firmly stated that children grow up better outside, and if you or a parent you know agree with her, all the information on how to participate in Save the Bees! can be found here on their website, including a map showing all the local pickup points for the Wilderflower Seed Packets."

-via Good News Network, June 13, 2024

[iko66]

Colorado Springs

[schlady]

the palette 🎨 → the paintings 🖼️🏞️

"Mountain Moment - Late Popcorn Clouds" "Mountain Moment - Cutler Trail" 7"w acrylic paintings on diamond canvases

[risserroo]

I haven’t been active lately but here she is

[redhoodscorvid]

IRL PSA: Coloradans, you may need rabies shots if you attended the Moms and Mutts adoption event on July 20, 2024 in Englewood! (20 min south of Denver, CO.)

If you attended:

Call the hotline: 303-692-2700

After hours: 303-370-9395

Email: cdphe_zoonoses@state.co.us

If it's determined that you were exposed, you need to get vaccinated immediately. "Once clinical symptoms appear, rabies is virtually 100% fatal." (WHO)

The news is spreading more widely now that lab work has definitively confirmed that a puppy was infected. Rabies can be spread through licks and scratches, so anyone who interacted with the puppies could be at risk. (Reporting from The Denver Post.)

[frankenstank]

New tattooo. Love the cute snek 🥹💗 🐍

[tetramodal]

Three baby fox squirrels left their squirrel box for the first time today.

[charmanderxerneas]

If you’re in the Colorado Springs Area please read, lost dog

My beloved girl disappeared today, we think someone accidentally let her out while opening the front door. Her name is Biddy, she’s an older dog, chihuahua mix, white fur with slight brown markings on her ears, she only has one eye due to an injury a few years back. She might seem scary at first because she is scared of strangers, but she really is a sweetheart if you can calm her down and give her pets or something, and shes loved a lot. We live around Circle and Pikes Peak, I’m scared because some of the traffic around here is busy.

I know Facebook is better for lost pet posts and my family has made a post on there but since I dont have facebook i figured id throw this out there

[goddesseris-posts]

📍Garden of the Gods

[hildeeveraert]

Robert Adams, Longmont, Colorado Springs, from the series 'Summer Nights', 1968

[mysimsimworld]

Colorful Nature

[scaredlittlebug]

Catch me at Pikes Peak Zine Fest this Saturday, October 5, 2024!

Entry is free! Masks are encouraged!

@pikespeakzinefest !!!

[vintagepromotions]

"Feathers" World Famous 40 lb. Cat. 18 Years Old Owners, Mr. and Mrs. James George Colorado Springs, Colorado

Postcard featuring Feathers the cat (1951).

[tsamberwilson]

Growing through the pain and becoming stronger and unique 🏳️‍🌈⚧️🏳️

[beardedmrbean]

Here we go again

[gentlyrowan]

MOTHER'S CROWN

GARDEN OF THE GODS

COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO, USA

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"You wind among rocks of every conceivable and inconceivable shape and size... all bright red, all motionless and silent, with a strange look of having been just stopped and held back in the very climax of some supernatural catastrophe."

-- Helen Hunt Jackson