Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Colorado west from the Kansas border is a prairie mostly as nature intended it — vast swaths of grass, wildflowers and cactus punctuated by cottonwoods every ...

"These are bristlecone pine and they are very unique." Sharon Harding-Shaw walks the rows and rows of trees that fill sections of Harding Nursery in Colorado Springs. "You can always tell the ...

After a warm fall and a freeze in May, trees along the Front Range are dying off. Residents in the area have reported damaged trees, particularly junipers and arborvitaes. “In conversation with ...

Right now, because the trees are all the same age and are in close proximity, it’s sort of a ready-made buffet for the mountain pine beetle,” Colorado’s state forester says.

As spring arrives, our local nurseries and garden centers will be filling up, especially with the plants, trees, and shrubs that can go in early when temperatures are still a bit erratic. Optimal ...