Kevin Cook: Wildlife Window Nature Series

Colography: The Nitty-Gritty Colorado

Properly defined, “geography” means “the documentation of Earth.” Extending this concept gives us “Colography,” the “documentation of Colorado.” Our state sprawls across three great geologic regions blending characters from each. So how many mountain ranges do we have? How many parks do we have, and what is a “park,” anyway? Where are these landscape features and how did they get there? How many cactuses and orchids, owls and hummingbirds — how much life — garnish the landscapes with distinctive lifescapes? “Colography: The Nitty-Gritty Colorado” examines physical and biotic details of the state we call home, all done with a mind for experiencing it.

November 11: Remembering the Past to Anticipate the Future
During the first century and a half of America’s existence as a country, people obliterated entire ecosystems. That loss affected everything from aesthetics to economics: a forest entirely cut to the ground cannot provide commercially valuable lumber. Such realities motivated concepts of conservation and preservation.