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Smuggler’s bigfoot – the snowshoe hare
A snowshoe hare in its winter coat of white. Credit: National Parks Service
Wintertime brings a preponderance of evidence that wildlife abounds – and of one animal that literally bounds. The tracks of the snowshoe hare are easy to spot zigzagging across the snow of Colorado’s high country, but actually spotting this expertly camouflaged mammal is another matter altogether.
Pitkin County conservation successes in 2024 total 1,142 acres
An open space donation – 240 acres near Marble.
Pitkin County Open Space and Trails is closing out 2024 with a 120-acre conservation effort in the pipeline, capping a remarkable year of land protection. In all, 1,142 acres will be protected through either an open space purchase or via a conservation easement initiated this year.
Open Space housing effort for the birds
A female, or perhaps juvenile, Mountain bluebird making use of a birdhouse at Glassier Open Space.
Ten new birdhouses. Six nests.
A year ago, Pitkin County Open Space and Trails built and placed 10 bluebird houses on a couple of open spaces. We targeted Mountain bluebirds, a species that has historically nested in tree cavities excavated by woodpeckers, but that will readily use a nest box that is appropriately sized and properly placed in their natural habitat.
