Colorado Experience: Forests of Change
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- Humans have had a relationship with forests for eons. But today, Colorado’s forests are changing, potentially altering this intrinsic connection. Follow scientists and historians as they work to understand this transformation. Decipher tree rings, analyze aerial imagery, and learn of Colorado’s long history to unroot the causes and consequences of Colorado’s changing forests.
Learn more about Colorado Experience at rmpbs.org/coex.
I have been all over the world---our dad was a career soldier so we were always moving and we in fact, all born in different places. Then we too went into the military so we've seen alot of beauty. But Colorado stands out in our memories...that hiway 24 toward the Continental Divide tho? Just a sense of awe sets in. Im 64 now...readying for retirement. And our compass points to one way ahead---back home---to the lovely Colorado. See you soon. 😘
It's not like it used to be. It's fully californiacated. Visit and rent for a while. I was driven out by horrible traffic, road rage, bad roads, crowded mountains and nasty people.
@@TheBandit7613 yikes!!! Dammit. Im bummed now. Time to go further north i guess.
@@avalynnwaller6885 Consider South Dakota, Rapid City or if you want to live in the woods, the Black Hills. Maybe near Deadwood? That's where I'm looking. I spent 3 weeks there last summer. Really nice people. Like Colorado used to be. I'm really sorry to be the one to tell you about Colorado. I left because of the world class traffic jams in the mountains. On weekends it can take several hours from Vail to Denver. South Dakota has really grown on me.
@@TheBandit7613 im def gonna HAVE to look, sadly, who wants to invest in a little piece of heaven---that soon--wont be. 😧
May the meadow makers bid you a well return, dear soul.
Stunningly beautiful. Someone knows how to digitally transform masterpieces. Ty Colorado PBS.
Should be mandatory for all residents to watch this video. Thanks!
Happy to hear these knowledgeable men and women who are experts in their fields of study and in their crafts. They are truly custodians of the forest. To each man his calling,
Pine beetles were a problem in the mountains of Colorado since the 70's when I moved there from bad forest management
Very informative documentary on how important the forests of our beautiful state really are and why they're so worth protecting.
I am lucky that I get to look out my window and see Pikes Peak everyday. Colorado is beautiful and enchanting, I don't think I'll ever move.
Don't! I did and I regret it. I hope to move back because I'm so homesick and miss seeing those mountains in the distance. You're extremely lucky to see that out your window.
looking to move to COS. would u recommend for a nature lover / sports?
SO lucky.been there to visita. I Will never forget❤️🌹
Colorado Springs pride!
my motorbike is a pikes peak replica lol
Absolute eye opener. Great production overall. I hope others can watch this a get inspired to keep/preserve and protect out forests and wildlife ❤️
Been there. Such an amazing state. And nice people ❤️❤️❤️🌹🌹🌹🌹
37:03 climate change. 39:54 drought-driven mountain pine beetle impacts. 43:16 earlier snowmelt = longer growing season but also fire season. 45:26 forest lands lost to grass/shrubs = less carbon storage. 49:01 wildland urban interface.
thanks!
What's the timestamp where they talk about the impact of fire suppression on the forest's fire return intervals, and how the entire state is a fire-dependent ecosystem? Funny, if it's not in there, it seems they left out the leading variable ... 🤔
I moved to Colorado from New York in August of 2018. Best decision of my life!!!
I visited Denver in 2017. I love Colorado !
We camp as a family near South Fork, CO every year since the 1960s and saw much damage to the National Forest from pine beetle infestation
The forest service refuses logging roads to be built. I live in South Fork. Our trees are such a fire hazard.
Great video
so the entirety of indigenous forest management is just glossed over...... ooooh kaaaay.
Mind giving me some advice on where to look into their work? Would love to interview them
@@olsonbryce777 Look up Dr Christopher Roos. He'd be a great person to start with.
The greatest of the state of Colorado .
Colorado, Utah and Wyoming have the most beautiful mountains and forest in the USA 🇺🇸.
Throw in Washington state, and California as honorable mentions
Why didn’t they mention my ancestors, THE UTE nation. That’s our home.
no one mentioned that the pine beetle was a foreign introduction to Colorado
The Mountain Pine beetle is native to Colorado. The forests are not healthy right now. Fires are a natural part of forest lifecycles but they've been interrupted for a hundred years. Can't let the forest regenerate (burn) when it's full of neighborhoods. The beetles are doing what they do. I spent 20 years fighting pine beetles in Clear Creek county and lost. They can't be stopped and nothing can be done where people live.
@@TheBandit7613 yikes...again.
@@TheBandit7613 Not exactly correct. There is a lot that Americans can do to mitigate the beetle threat. The Europeans have a thousand years of forest management at least. They have controlled the beetle infestation remarkably well. Look into how they do it. Its simple and cheap.
THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!
Has been considered that perhaps that as the climate warms that new tree species from other places would start colonies areas formally occupied by trees that more known to grow here? For example, I have noticed an increase in broad-leaf trees growing in and near creeks. I have seen Maples, Black Locust, even Oak trees are growing more independent of people around Colorado. Elms grow all over place.
In Illinois, we have this garbage plant we call "creeping charlie" this has deep roots which may help keep plants in place. In the great lakes of Canada & USA, we have problems with the zebra mussel - I have no idea what can do done. Do you read these comments?
YES
“How do you recreate a forest?”
“You have to talk to the trees.”
Collaboration: my property in north Idaho didn't get pine beetle until 2010, which only killed young lodgepole, then borer in 2016 bored to the cambium killing adult trees of all species
Speaking of boring beetles the Appalachians have one for every specie of tree; not to mention chestnut blight.
Collaboration through public meetings needs a knowledgeable person to mitigate.
Спасибо, интересно
Guess what we would have less intense fires if we would allow selective logging to help thin the trees out. Less fuel etc
uhh we do allow selective logging
@@hamburgler227 Uhhh it is only allowed in certain areas. Do your research a bit more before you come at someone.
You need to grow moss first in the hills, so that the sedd from trees have a growt ground...
Imagine if there was an animal that tore down the forests, polluted the waters, polluted the air, killed other animals for sport / modern day Hunting, etc….
but we will have some time to do what are but i don’t think for long
The forests service will not allow logging roads to remove dead trees. Terrible management
Evolving...
Come on down to South Park and have yourself a time, in the oldest trees in the Rockies.. Still have not found ‘the one’, it’s on this mountain here somewhere..
👍😎✌
The pine beetle problem could have been prevented had it not been for radical environmentalists suing to prevent spraying for them.
Too much climate change blame and lack of boots on the ground implemented solutions. Not enough forest management and grid pilot management techniques. Pilot programs should be implemented in densely forested areas and if successful throughout forested areas where it can be implemented. Like square mile grids or larger in one square mile area thin out the standing forest by 20 to 25 percent and leave the under growth. In an adjoining nearby area square mile clear all the under growth with little to no standing forest tree thinning. Change up patterns in proceeding grid areas. With sections ranging maybe even up to 50 percent thinning. Space the management grids where even if wild fires enter the pilot areas some areas will fair better and survive better and longer than other areas.
Implementing something is better than doing nothing. Instead of just blaming the weather climate change. It takes money to get proactive. We have nothing to lose except our forest. There will always be skeptics and naysayers. We have nothing to lose because nothing so far has worked. Degreeed professionals can't solve these threats to our forest with speeches and documentaries. Maybe federal emergency declaration money needs to be tied to forest management practices in combating dense forest over growth and under growth.
we still have time
we did not come down out of trees...
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41:50
The forests are precious and not as resilient as destroyers would have you believe. The rain water rivers lakes and oceans have been more and more alkaline over the years not acid rain. They have been lying about acid rain most of my life. This lie is critical to forest health. The declining acidity was seen in the forests as yellowing and dying forests of the northeast USA and black forest Germany. The sulphate and nitrate pollution from power plants was eliminated and the forests recovered. Sulphate and nitrate salts make the rain more alkaline. These are the basic salts of strong acids and will make the rainwater rivers and lakes more basic. This was history of the forests of the North East USA. From coal fired power plants. We can replace these power plants with Edison generators and dynamos power plants with inverters and transformers to deliver high voltage AC power continuous peak power without fuel or pollution. What else is making the rain more basic that control of power plants pollution would correct the pH.?? Halogenated vinyl and halogenated carbon pollution from pesticides herbicides and plastic manufacture fire retardant and paint solved are free radical generating molecules and this created more basic rain. The sulphate and nitrate salts were only part of the problem. These pollutants halogenated vinyl and halogenated carbon pollutants are global pollutants that accumulate and bioconcentrate.
And the weed is top!
You can see the erosion of health of the forests from alkaline water from free radical generating molecules in photographs of the forests in Siberia and Canada.
nothing
Stopped watching when she said we came down from the trees.
If that's your hang up I'm surprised you even bothered to click on a PBS video to begin with and risk learning something.
@@MultiJebusChrist you said it better than I ever could😂
@@MultiJebusChrist Well, she did say our ancestors came down out of the trees, so I'm not sure I call that learning something.
Sustain life on earth
Amen!
So, humans caused the bark beetle to do what it naturally does ? ?
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha a ....
Oh gawd, just looked This is PBS
Should have known
If my generation (born 2001) of people joining the forest service (and other restoration/ecological fields or organizations) and given the freedom to do it we could save our forests in the US. We gotta convince people our economy and the environment aren’t diametrically opposed. Everyone wants these solutions but everyone wants money too
lol "it doesnt hirt the tree" proceeds to live dossect the tree. I think he means "the tree cant talk back" lol shud at least smoke some..
And some day - humans won't be here. A perfect world.
is anyone else here for on line school 😑 😑