Physical activity from outdoor recreational pursuits is well known to be beneficial and has been encouraged by the US Surgeon General. Specific constraints, often reflected in sociocultural issues, can be impediments to individuals participating in outdoor recreational activities. Data were collecte

In the American Southwest, a growing population combined with climate change induced weather pattern changes are creating growing conflict for uses of the over appropriated Colorado River System. Water managers use a variety of tools and data to make decisions at the local and regional level which w

Abstract Climate change has induced pronounced shifts in the reproductive phenology of plants, with the timing of first flowering advancing in most species. Indeed, population persistence may be threatened by the inability to track climate change phenologically. Nevertheless, substantial variation e

Hybridization between taxa generates new pools of genetic variation that can lead to different environmental responses and demographic trajectories over time than seen in parental lineages. The potential for hybrids to have novel environmental tolerances may be increasingly important in mountainous

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Due to the lack of a dense network of reporting stations in the Grand Junction, Colorado area and the inadequate representation of shower activity by observations of rain at a single rain gage, certain arbitrary criteria were set up to define a “shower” day at Grand Junction. Relationships of a numb

Gilbert’s studies of underground water were overshadowed by his magnificent reports on geologic structure and landforms. In fact, his 1896 publication on the underground water of the Arkansas Valley in eastern Colorado was called by W. M. Davis “for the most part a straightforward geological account

Clifford Duncan, a Northern Ute elder, believed in educating the public to know and understand the meaning of Ute petroglyphs. By doing this, he believed it would help to preserve and protect them. Over the course of eight years, Clifford and the author visited and revisited all of these sites, disc

In the course of nesting microclimatic studies of the Broad-tailed Hummingbird (Selusphorus platycercus), I observed three cases of intra-or interspecific piracy of nesting materials. These observations were made in the vicinity of the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Gothic, Gunnison County, C