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Saturday, May 25th, 2013

Posts Tagged For the Forest

Hope Mine biochar 171

Hope Mine cleanup demonstrates power of biochar

By | 09.09.11 | 5:00 am

A new generation of pioneers have struck proverbial gold at an abandoned silver mine near Aspen. What was once a wasteland of arsenic, cadmium, lead and zinc on a steep mountainside that abuts Castle Creek is now a haven for natural grasses and wildflowers that have stabilized the slope and drastically reduced the risk of the heavy metals crashing into the city’s main water supply.

Al Gore to keynote Aspen symposium linking climate change, beetle kill

By | 01.01.11 | 10:57 am

Former Vice President Al Gore will be in Aspen in February to attend what’s believed to be one of the first major public symposiums linking global climate change to the deteriorating health of forestland in the American West due to ongoing insect infestations and the growing threat of wildfire.