Celebrating Invertebrates: A Year of Conservation with the Xerces Society

Virtual

Join Executive Director Scott Black as he explores the impactful work of the Xerces Society in 2024. From creating pollinator habitat and advocating for pesticide reduction to launching community science initiatives and educational programs, Xerces has achieved remarkable progress in invertebrate conservation.

Western Butterflies and Lost Species in the Anthropocene

Virtual

Monitoring is essential to our understanding of insects in the modern era, the Anthropocene, and monitoring comes in many different forms and serves different purposes. Join Matt Forister, professor in the Biology Department at the University of Nevada, Reno, as he discusses working with North America's longest-running butterfly monitoring project across Northern California, and presents major findings with respect to the impacts of climate change and pesticides on butterfly populations.

Weed Wrangling – Eldorado Canyon State Park

Eldorado Canyon State Park

Eldorado Canyon has invasive weeds! And Eldorado Canyon doesn't spray herbicides. To control weeds we use biological agents (bugs that target very specific invasive species) and hand-pulling.

Boulder County Seed Exchange & Giveaway

Niwot United Methodist Church Lookout Road 7405, Longmont, Colorado, United States

Come and share the seeds you saved from your garden or have purchased and don’t need. 'Shop' for seeds for your garden for free and attend workshops on basic seed saving and growing rare seed varieties in your home garden. Meet other community members that are passionate about gardening and the local food system.

Fungal Friends: DIY Mushroom Cultivation

Friends Farm Nyland Way, Lafayette, Colorado, United States

Come learn about a range of techniques for cultivating mushrooms, both indoor and outdoor! Zane will root us in as we take a look at log plugging, building a mushroom bed or at home cultivation where you can just use what you have around the house. 

Cultivation: A Conversation on Regenerative Ag

eTown Hall 1535 Spruce Street, Boulder

Join us for Cultivation, an evening of thought-provoking conversation on the future of sustainable and regenerative agriculture. Hosted by Newday, Conscious Planet, Mad Ag and the Beneficial Plant Research Association, this event will bring together leaders and changemakers to explore how we can cultivate a healthier planet through innovative agricultural practices.

The Next Level of Protection of Conservation Lands

Boulder Unitarian Universalist Church 5001 Pennsylvania Ave, Boulder, CO 80303

From the identification of special places for natural areas in the 50’s to the 70’s, to knowledge of where rare imperiled and endangered species occur in the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s, to landscapes and locations needed to assure that we retain the now agreed inadequate 10%, to Potential Natural Areas in the 2000’s, to their connectivity in the face of climate change, we now know that the job of conservation is enormous. Do we have the tools? Can the most successful groups get the job done?