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  • Kinnikinnick, and winter in the...

    Reprinted from Dec. 19, 2007

    Winter seems to have settled in with a fairly stable blanket of white. However, it is not too deep for walking in most of our area, and all but the back roads are fairly passable. This makes it possible for most anyone to get out to see what winter has in store.

  • Christmas Bird Count to be held...

    When wondering what was new in Our Evergreen World that I could write about this week, I discovered three noteworthy items.

    Christmas Bird Count on Sunday
    First and foremost is that Sunday, Dec. 19, is the 2010 Christmas Bird Count. This international event is sponsored locally by Evergreen Audubon.

  • Not everyone thinks the holidays...

    Tis’ the season to be jolly
    What a nice sentiment for the holidays, but not everybody thinks so. If you’re feeling blue this holiday, you are apparently not alone. Nearly 7 percent of the U.S. population age 18 and older is affected by major depressive disorder.

  • Jeepers, little brown creepers are...

    Reprinted from Nov. 19, 2008

    Many people have asked recently about a little brown mottled bird with a white breast and a curved beak that they have seen circling around the trunks of their trees.
    The bird is a brown creeper, a fairly common resident in our woodlands. Why they have become so obvious recently probably has several causes.
    During the summer nesting season, brown creepers are shy and choose thick, dark pine woods in which to nest and therefore are not as easily seen.

  • Seen and herd

    By Burdette “Bud” Weare
    For the Courant

  • Dark-eyed juncos bring color to...

    I am writing this on Sunday, Oct. 31. This has been a beautiful autumn Sunday with temperatures ranging from 60 this morning to the low 70s this afternoon.
    A light breeze is keeping it from being warmer, but the sky is at its best Colorado blue. I am still at Elk Run Assisted Living, disappointed that I need to stay a bit longer, but I now plan to be home with some of my family by Thanksgiving.

  •
    The students dig it

    A Clear Creek Middle School class is getting a lesson in what it’s really like to be an archaeologist.
    The often-idealized science isn’t like the work of Indiana Jones of movie fame, and most archaeologists don’t make huge discoveries like finding the tomb of King Tut.
    For this class, digging up little blue spiral things and plastic leaves at an archaeological dig site near the school is the beginning of scientific discovery.

  • Local Restaurants

    The Bagelry
        1242 Bergen Parkway
        Evergreen, CO 80439
        303-674-1413
        Click Here for Directions
        Click Here to see our Menu
    Brook Forest Inn
        8136 S. Brook Forest Rd

  • Taking the mystery out of local...

    The Health and Human Services Department in collaboration with Public and Environmental Health is launching new efforts to inform the public about the many health services, information and family-friendly programs offered in the county.

    Healthy Haunt

  • Mild fall brings out winged, four-...

    This has been a beautiful fall so far, with warm sunny days and blue skies.
    I am now getting physical therapy on my wrist and have enjoyed the warm, gold days as much as possible.
    I get outdoors for a bit most days to enjoy the fall weather while I can. Locally, some of the aspen are still green but other ones are in full color. From what I have seen on the TV news, many of the leaves have already been blown off in the high country.

  • Remember, raccoons are wild animals

    Well, I’ve done it again. Once a klutz, always a klutz. Seems like every few years, lately, I have to go tumbling around, either spraining or breaking something.
    This time it’s a broken right wrist. How these things happen so quickly amazes me, but of course, if you had time to think about it, they wouldn’t happen.

  • A view of the natural world from...

    As most of my friends know, I took a tumble in early August and broke my right wrist, so I have been confined to a nursing home ever since I got out of the hospital. That’s only because I can’t manage very well by myself with only one arm. However, it’s doing well and I’ll soon be out of a cast and then I can do a great deal more, I hope, even though it will still be stiff and sore.

  • Plugging all the leaks

    The beautiful days of September are not only a great time to enjoy Colorado’s high country but also bring a reminder that summer is all too fleeting and cooler weather will be back soon.

    This is an excellent time to think about what low-cost energy efficiency improvements you could make to your home that will pay dividends not only in the winter but throughout the year.

  • Bird lovers should crow about crows

    When we moved here in 1965, crows were officially named the “common crow.” But, they were definitely not common in Evergreen, except in winter. Summer crows in the mountains were few and far between.

  • Survey responses direct local...

    Over my career, surveying constituents has always been an important part of the planning and goal-setting process: always good to know your audience, customer, stakeholder, client or resident and their needs before writing up the plan. Or to put it another way —best to know the condition of the water and wind before you launch your boat and set your sail.  

  • A lucky day to be part of &...

    Friday the 13th, an unlucky day for some people, happened to be a lucky day indeed for my friend and fellow birder Warren Roske. Warren saw a northern goshawk on Friday at Evergreen Lake. This is one of the few sightings of a goshawk at the lake. But it was no accident that Warren was birding there, as he, my friend Loie Evans and a few other birding friends try to keep a daily tally of the birds at Evergreen Lake. They post which birds, and how many individuals, they see on a bulletin board on the Lake House side of the boardwalk.

  • The birding arts: observation and...

    People often ask me how I happen to see so many more birds and animals than they do.

    They often say that they at least drive into downtown Evergreen every day, sometimes more than that, and they don’t see half as many things as I do.

    I usually reply to this that birders are made by learning the art of observation. I am not as good an observer as my late husband Bill was.

    He began birding the minute he woke up. Many days he had the first bird on his daily list before he got out of bed by looking out the bedroom window.

  • Healthy moms mean healthy babies

    With only 100 babies born a year to residents in Clear Creek County, it might be easy to dismiss the impact of improved health services and personal lifestyles on our tiniest citizens.

    Yet health research and data suggest that pregnant women, new mothers and their babies have fewer health problems and better wellness outcomes if a few basic steps are followed:

    • Get early and regular prenatal care.

    • Quit smoking.

    • Improve nutrition, shopping and cooking education.

  • Douglas fir got its name from...

    The Douglas fir, pseudotsuga menziesii, is one of our loveliest trees. It is probably the largest tree growing in our forests today. It has a fascinating history that is closely woven with the man for whom it was named, David Douglas.

  • Babies abound in the foothills&...

    Summer is in full swing with August weather starting in July.

    As the weathermen have been saying, the monsoon winds are bringing warm and wet air up from the Gulf Coast, which is bringing us rain when it bumps into our cool mountains. This usually occurs in August, but this year two near tropical storms brought some similar weather in July, so we have had unusually hot and humid weather, very unlike the hot dry weather we are used to.

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