Celebrate Earth Day in Aspen Colorado
April 10, 2008
Earth Day in Aspen, Colorado - Saturday, April 26 2008
Sponsored by Aspen Center for Environmental Studies (ACES), The City of Aspen Canary Initiative, The City of Aspen, Pitkin County, and the Sopris Foundation. Join us for a full schedule of Earth Day activities and events.
9:00 am - Community Park Clean-Up (925.5120)
9:30 am - Same Day 5K Road Race Registration ($15 cash or check only)
10:00 am - Earth Day 5K Road Race
11:00 am - Earth Day Family Eco-Edventure Walk (free!)
12:00 - 2:00 pm - Race Awards, Lunch, and Information Fair– ACES at Hallam Lake
5:30 - 7:30 pm - Greendrinks at La Cantina
Call or e-mail Adam Hancock for more information. 970-925-5756/ahancock@aspennature.org
Aspen Colorado Community Garden-Rock Bottom Ranch
March 18, 2008
Interested in a Community Garden in Aspen, Colorado? Visit Rock Bottom Ranch’s community garden, we are looking for additional members to participate! Community Garden participants will have new opportunities to come and meet others in the community and learn new gardening skills during our new Come Garden With Us workshops. These garden workshops will focus on a variety of topics, including garden design, seed saving, harvesting the fruits of your labor, and getting your plants growing!
Interested participants can attend our introduction meeting on March 18th at 5:30 p.m. Feel free to call with any questions at 927-6760 or e-mail rockbottom@aspennature.org
Rock Bottom Ranch
2001 Hooks Spur Road
Basalt, Colorado
Naturalist Nights Lecture Series-March 13
March 10, 2008
Aspen Center for Environmental Studies
March 13, 7:30 PM Free, come early for tea and cookies!
Dr. Greg Florant To Be Fit and Fat: Consequences of Obesity in Mammalian Hibernators
The experiments performed in my laboratory are designed to investigate the physiological and biochemical mechanisms that are involved in regulating food intake and energy balance in mammals. We believe this is an extremely important question given the problems associated with over eating and obesity in our society. The questions we address are: what regulates food intake and body mass in mammals that hibernate? Are specific hormones involved in the regulation of fasting? The results of our investigations will hopefully have a broad impact by adding new basic knowledge to our current understanding of how animals regulate their body mass.
For More Information visit ACES
Aspen Environment-Naturalist Nights presents Jeremy Nichols
February 19, 2008
*** Reminder, Thursday, Feb 21 Naturalist Night Presentation - Black Bear Ecology
Safeguarding Clean Air: Taking on the Threat of Rampant Oil and Gas Drilling
Presented by Jeremy Nichols
February 28, 7:30 AM, Free to the public!
Call us for more information: 925-5756
Clean air is a hallmark of Colorado, yet air pollution from rampant oil and gas drilling is taking its toll on our health, our wildlands, our communities, and even our climate. However, things are changing for the better. We’ll take a look at how more drilling has fueled unprecedented action for clean air in Colorado, and how crisis is fueling opportunity and hope. Most importantly, we’ll take a look at how citizens are winning.
Environment-Urban Black Bear Ecology in Aspen Colorado
February 12, 2008
Naturalist Nights Series by The Aspen Center for Environmental Studies
The summer of 2007 was one of the worst years for bear-human conflicts that wildlife managers in the Roaring Fork Valley and, in particular, Aspen can remember. In fact, bear-human conflicts have been increasing throughout the West, and there is a growing need to better understand bear behavior in urban environments. This presentation will outline the ongoing inter-agency urban bear ecology study in Aspen and the Roaring Fork Valley . Goals are to gain knowledge about resource selection and movement behavior of bears in town and to assess the effectiveness of management strategies in reducing bear-human conflicts. Sharon will present preliminary data collected on Aspen bears from 2005-2007 including movement and activity pattern behaviors observed so far.
February 21, 7:30 PM - Free to the Public - More Information HERE
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