A unique 39-year study of wildflower blooms in a Colorado Rocky Mountain meadow shows more than two-thirds of alpine flowers have changed their blooming pattern in response to climate change. Not only ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Rocky Mountain National Park is home to over 900 wildflower species. While it may seem like an innocent act to pick a wildflower while on a hike, it’s actually considered a federal ...

The Rocky Mountain wildflower season has lengthened by over a month since the 1970s, according to a study published Monday that found climate change is altering the flowering patterns of more species ...

New CU Boulder-led research has established a causal link between climate warming and the localized extinction of a common Rocky Mountain flowering plant, a result that could serve as a herald of ...

Local authors Linda and Bernie Nagy’s “Rocky Mountain Wildflowers Field Guide” was a winner at the 2016 Colorado Independent Publishers Association (CIPA) EVVY Book awards banquet on Aug. 20. The ...

My favorite is “A Field Guide to Rocky Mountain Wildflowers” by John and Frank Craighead and Ray Davis. The Craighead brothers were the first modern-day researchers to study grizzly bears in ...

I first heard of the book seven years ago from Jack Turner, a bioregional essayist and retired Exum Mountain Guide living in Wyoming, at the foot of the Teton Range. He was talking about Henry David ...

It’s happened to probably every hiker somewhere along the trail. You’re walking and a bright wildflower catches your eye. You’ve never seen it before – and you want to know more. Al Schneider of Lewis ...

Hikers arriving at the recently reopened Green Mountain trail on the west side of Rocky Mountain National Park know they can expect to see vast swaths of devastation wreaked by the East Troublesome ...

A 39-year study of wildflower blooms in a Colorado Rocky Mountain meadow shows that more than two-thirds of alpine flowers have changed their blooming patterns in response to climate change. Not only ...