The summer tour is FREE to all participants and includes transportation between sites as well as a lunch buffet at the CSU Mountain Campus. Check-in for the tour will open with coffee and light breakfast fare at 7 AM MDT at One Canopy (Loveland, CO) and the program will begin promptly at 7:30 AM. The tour will return participants to One Canopy around 5:00 – 5:30 PM.

Stops will include:

One Canopy

One Canopy is a nursery in Loveland, Colorado, specializing in growing native plant materials on a contract basis, including for post-fire and post-flood revegetation uses. Participants will leave their vehicles here and ride on HAR-provided transportation until the end of the day when we return to the One Canopy parking lot.

Picnic Rock Natural Area

Feral rye was seeded at this site either before or after the Picnic Rock Fire. Although planted for revegetation purposes, this species has become a persistent and extensive management concern for Larimer County.

Kyle Gulch

We will visit a site at Kyle Gulch where the City of Greeley Water completed a project to arrest head cuts and nick points with the goal of reducing sedimentation. The low-tech process-based restoration portion of the project included seeding and willow staking in 2023-2024, in addition to hardscape engineering.

CSU Mountain Campus 

We will have lunch at this stop. After lunch we will discuss aerial mulching and related considerations when used for post-fire soil stabilization. We may also visit an aerially-mulched site, time allowing.

Bobcat Ridge Natural Area

At Bobcat Ridge, we will visit a seed-based restoration project and learn about challenges associated with invasive species (primarily cheatgrass) and weather extremes.