The American pika (Ochotona princeps) is the smallest member in the order Lagomorpha. Concern about pika populations stem from recent, but limited research linking climate change to population extirpations in the Great Basin and Sierra Nevada Mountains.

This issue brief is one of three that explores aspects of our natural resources -water, land, and energy -and the steps necessary to balance Colorado's need for increased agricultural production to feed its growing population and the sustainable use of its natural resources to support production.

This report summarizes the results of a rapid landscape-scale climate vulnerability assessment for the Gunnison Basin. The primary objective of this assessment was to determine what ecosystems/habitats and species are most at risk to climate change (and why) under climate change scenarios predicted for 2050. This report summarizes the results of a landscape-scale climate change vulnerability assessment of 24 ecosystems (17 terrestrial and seven freshwater...

Interviews discussing CDOT's response to the September 2013 flood that damaged roads and bridges from mountain canyons to the eastern plains. Besides monitoring the damage to roads and bridges CDOT played a role in evacuating 18,000 people. The governor challenged CDOT to get the roads and bridges sufficiently repaired by December 2013 to allow safe travel. CDOT met the challenge and immediately began planning permanently rebuilt roads to handle a...

A story about family, loyalty, kindness and bravery, set against an all-too-possible future where climate change has forever changed the way we live. Sometimes bees get too big to be up in the branches, sometimes they fall and break their bones. This week both happened and Foreman said, 'Tomorrow we'll find two new bees.' Peony lives with her sister and grandfather on a fruit farm outside the city. In a world where real bees are extinct, the quickest,...

"Once, the ocean was full of friends. Then a little jellyfish notices that things are changing--friends are disappearing! He sets out to discover the truth and learns that everyone has a part to play in protecting the careful balance of the ocean. "Bloom" refers to a substantial increase in jellyfish population that can be caused by climate change and pollution. In this beautifully illustrated, timely, and topical tale, the jellyfish band together...

"In the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Barry Lopez, a powerful, poetic and deeply absorbing account of the "lung" at the top of the world. For the last fifty years, the trees of the boreal forest have been moving north. Ben Rawlence's The Treeline takes us along this critical frontier of our warming planet from Norway to Siberia, Alaska to Greenland, to meet the scientists, residents and trees confronting huge geological changes. Only the hardest...

"Simple text and full-color photography introduce beginning readers to forests. Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through third grade"--

"There are around 92 million cows found on farms across the United States. That many cows means more milk and more food, but it also means more of a cow's gross habit: Farts! Through this lighted-hearted exploration of a cow, young readers will discover why cows fart and why scientists believe they might be dangerous to the environment. With full-color photographs paired closely with approachable text, young readers will learn not only about why cows...