https://www.alisonchino.com/two-weeks-in-colorful-colorado/ I'm just trying to walk myself home. Tue, 30 Jul 2013 21:02:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.alisonchino.com/two-weeks-in-colorful-colorado/#comment-5282 Tue, 30 Jul 2013 21:02:10 +0000 http://chinos.wordpress.com/?p=5947#comment-5282 […] Gothic, Colorado is home to the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (RMBL), a dream school for science majors all over the world. Students come out and spend weeks of their summer studying the mountain ecosystems, and complete all sorts of projects. Mary Polly swears she is going to go one day. The folks from the RMBL always have the best parade float in Crested Butte on the 4th of July. They all dress in green leaves and flowers. They look like forest fairies who’ve come out of the woodwork just long enough for the parade. These crazy kids are partially responsible for our getting to see all the incredible wildflowers, as they are constantly working to restore areas that have been trampled or damaged with native Colorado wildflowers. We ran into a few of them on the trail gathering samples and doing field research. […]

]]> https://www.alisonchino.com/two-weeks-in-colorful-colorado/#comment-3066 Thu, 23 Aug 2012 10:45:22 +0000 http://chinos.wordpress.com/?p=5947#comment-3066 […] were fewer wildflowers than last year because of the dry weather, but it was still so […]

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