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High Plains Environmental Center
Приєднався 22 лис 2013
How Low Can You Go? Low Water Landscaping
In this Zoom class Jim Tolstrup will explain how the use of Native Plants can conserve water. But, how low can you go? Can you water your garden only once a month? What about once a year? Get your answers in this lecture.
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Our Restoration Services
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HPEC's Land Management and Habitat Restoration practices explained. Learn more about how and why we do what we do!
Chapungu Wildlife
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Join us on a Virtual Tour of Chapungu Sculpture Park, a 26-acre public garden and outdoor art exhibit in Loveland, CO that is home to 82 stone sculptures carved by Zimbabwean artisans.
Medicine Wheel Garden
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Welcome to the Medicine Wheel Garden, an ethnobotanical garden that showcases native plants utilized by Plains Indian tribes for food, medicine, and ceremony.
Community Garden
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The Community Garden at the High Plains Environmental Center.
Native Plant Nursery
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Welcome to High Plains Environmental Center's Native Plant Nursery. We grow over 100 species of plants that are native to the Colorado region.
Heirloom Fruit Orchard
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The High Plains Environmental Center (HPEC) planted an heirloom fruit orchard near our visitors' center in 2017 to preserve a portion of the region's agricultural heritage. The orchard includes heirloom species of apples, cherries, plums, peaches, and raspberries. These varieties were selected to celebrate and preserve an important piece of Colorado’s agricultural heritage, which can be traced ...
Bioswales & Stormwater Management at HPEC
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Jim Tolstrup, Executive Director of the High Plains Environmental Center (HPEC), discusses the Bioswale onsite at HPEC, and its function as both a wetland habitat & in stormwater management.
Landscaping at HPEC
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Jim Tolstrup discusses the landscaping around HPEC, which is uniquely native and strategically created to conserve water and serve as wildlife habitat.
Ethnobotany at the High Plains Environmental Center
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People have lived in Colorado for over 10,000 years. Looking at native plants through the lens of these first people’s offers us a view of a world that existed before grocery stores and pharmacies; where people found everything they needed in nature. The Medicine Wheel Garden & Ethnobotany programs at HPEC teach about how common native plants were used in ancient times, and how are they used to...
Volunteer at the High Plains Environmental Center
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VOLUNTEER WITH US! Are you interested in making a difference in your local community? Would you like to gain or improve your gardening skills? Do you have a passion for sustainability? If your answer is Yes, then HPEC might be perfect for you! Learn More at www.suburbitat.org
Suburbitat: Restoring Nature Where We Live, Work, & Play
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Ever wondered what we do at The High Plains Environmental Center, what our "Suburbitat" model is all about, and how our organization got started? Check out this new and exciting video about our Organizational Mission, Vital Partnerships, and Conservation Efforts that enable us to "restore nature where we live, work, and play."
Native Plants & Pollinators
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Jim Tolstrup, Executive Director of the High Plains Environmental Center in Loveland, CO, discusses the relationships between native plants & pollinators, and how you can help these native species at home! To Learn More, please visit us at www.suburbitat.org.
Beginning Birding Tips at the High Plains Environmental Center
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Ruben the Robot explains the ways to improve your bird watching with free online tools from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Ruben explains how to use the resources. Great photos of one of Ruben's local hotspots throughout. Robot bird call!
"Restoring Nature Where We Live, Work, and Play."
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"Restoring Nature Where We Live, Work, and Play."
High Plains Environmental Center- Wetland Ecology
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High Plains Environmental Center- Wetland Ecology
Can people come and take scion wood in the spring?
I could listen for hours! Thank you!
Thank you for recording and uploading this, i appreciate it 👍
GREAT video! Keep up the good work!
Just found you and subscribed. Live along the Front Range and looking forward for some garden tips
Great
Wonderful stories. Thank you.
Butterflies will feed on nectar from a wide variety of plants but when it comes to HOST plants, is when they are a lot more particular about what plants that they will lay their eggs on.
I think researchers in Boulder are collecting seeds from old apple trees-some may be the last of their kind.
What are the names of the beautiful plants he was featuring? I like him.
In this video I think I see Campanula parryi, hairy golden aster, rabbitbrush,California poppy, Colorado four o'clock, autumn sage, Bigelow's tansy aster, firecracker penstemon, golden columbine, goldenrod. He's showing off a showy milkweed, (monarch shot is on a swamp milkweed), Colorado/desert four o'clock, American plum,
Walk by this environmental center nearly every morning, feeling a kinship with all the beauty that you shared. There is abundance for all when we learn how to cultivate it.
One correction--adult monarch butterflies nectar from many different flowers, not just from milkweed. And many, many different pollinators will visit milkweed flowers.
We all learn when we all share. Thanks you.