How Colorado Is Rethinking Its Urban Forest for a Hotter, Drier Future
Trees for a Changing Climate and Resilient Urban Forest (2022)
Colorado's Front Range cities face harsh growing conditions—hot summers, cold winters, low rainfall, and alkaline soils—that are worsening with climate change. To build a resilient urban forest, experts recommend diversifying tree species beyond the vulnerable ash and cottonwood, looking to southern seed sources for heat and drought tolerance, and embracing native oaks and other tough trees. This article interviews four tree experts who share their top picks and strategies for adapting our urban canopy.
Trees are particularly vulnerable to climate change and very important both in preventing it and maintaining livable conditions.
- simonebrunozzi
> At the Eighth Annual Tree Diversity Conference on March 4th, our Front Range conditions for growing trees was described as “harsh”.
Wow, didn't even know that there was such a thing.
The article is... beautiful, in a sense. It is SO clear that it is not written by AI (it's from 2022, in fact), and it seems refreshing to read something without the need to constantly ask yourself what was written with AI and what by a human mind.
Anyway... Planting trees is getting worse and worse. Our climate is pretty much f*cked. That, in 2026, is abuntantly clear. Sigh.