From: | Greg W. |
Sent on: | Wednesday, April 17, 2013, 3:38 PM |
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Helping Rocky Mountain National Park and Our Public Lands Partners Since 1931
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RMNA Member Hikes in RMNP
Join Membership Manager Curtis Carman for hikes in RMNP throughout the year!
April 26 - Hike to MacGregor FallsMay 24 - Hike to Cub LakeJune 28 - Hike to Lake Haiyaha
Welcome to the RMNA Web Newsletter, the Rocky Mountain Nature Association's online source for inside information about issues and current events in Rocky Mountain National Park! Greg, do you want even more in-depth news and features? Become an RMNA Member and receive the expanded print version of the RMNA Quarterly Newsletter in your snail- or e-mail box four times a year. Join today and help support Rocky Mountain National Park and other public lands!(Banner photo:Larry VanSickle)
Spring2013
Brent Langley, Artist-in-Residence 2009
The Power of Art
by Jean Muenchrath
Art is everywhere! It’s more than inspiration hung on walls. It shapes our natural world and influenced the creation of many of our national parks.
Outside, Nature is the ultimate artist. In Rocky Mountain National Park, she exhibits an endless variety of form, color and beauty. Here, Nature molded the mountains through geologic uplift and sculpted them with glacial ice. She paints the sky with a palette of colors and weaves plants and animals into an intricate tapestry of life. More...
Ski Hidden Valley Premiers This Summer!For almost a century, winter sports enthusiasts have flocked to Hidden Valley in Rocky Mountain National Park. The valley’s forested lower slopes were first denuded by logging around the turn-of-the-century, and periodically since then by devastating wind-driven events called “blowdowns,” where weak-rooted ponderosa pines could be felled by the thousands along wind corridors. Even intrepid park ranger Jack Moomaw admitted to cutting a few trees to make skiable runs. The most famous (or infamous) was the FIS/ Suicide run for the 1934 Down Mountain Races held in and around Estes Park that spring, where fearless skiers dropped down Suicide run more than 1,000 vertical feet in a measured mile! Read on.... Hidden Valley Ski Lodge in the 1970s
Coprinus comatus,also called shaggy mane.
Fungi: Friend or Foe?
by Mary Ann Franke
Keeping bad company with mold and infections, fungi have an image problem. The word “fungus,” according to the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, can be “used to describe something that has grown rapidly and is considered unpleasant or unattractive.” Certain species do give fungi a bad name, including parasites, like the one that causes chytridiomycosis, an amphibian disease considered responsible for the decline of boreal toads in Rocky Mountain National Park. Learn more here...
Success!RMNA Acquires Johnson Property for the Park!
You did it! Thanks to you, we have raised the $400,000 needed to acquire the Johnson Property. Congratulations!
More than 900 donors contributed to purchase this critical 3.89 acre parcel in the Kawuneeche Valley. The property will be transferred to Rocky Mountain National Park for permanent protection in the near future. This property, when returned to its natural state, will be a significant addition toward the goal of creating a contiguous natural landscape in the Valley, and will also improve wildlife habitat and enhance visitors’ wilderness experience. Find out more!The nonprofit Rocky Mountain Nature Association promotes understanding of Rocky Mountain National Park and other public lands partners through the sale and publication of interpretive/ educational programs. The organization also advances stewardship through philanthropy while protecting, restoring, maintaining and preserving land and historic sites in Rocky Mountain National Park and elsewhere in the Rocky Mountain region.Sincerely,Nancy WilsonEditor, RMNA Quarterly NewsletterRocky Mountain Nature AssociationEmail: [address removed]Phone:[masked]Fax:[masked]Web: www.rmna.org The approximately one-mile access road on the property will be revegetated.
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