Colorado Wildlife
Colorado's state animal
What is Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep
Discovered on Pike's Peak in 1862, this became our state tree in 1939.
What is the Blue Spruce?
This LNT principle reminds hikers to stay on established routes to avoid trampling vegetation and creating “social trails.”
What is Travel and Camp on Durable Surfaces?
How long a person survive without water?
What is 3 days?
Colorado is one of 4 states that meet at a point called Four Corners, another one of those states is
What are New Mexico, Utah or Arizona?
The wolf species most likely to be found in Colorado
What is the Gray Wolf?
The most widespread Pine tree in Colorado
What is the Ponderosa Pine?
According to LNT, you should camp at least this far, in feet, from lakes and streams.
What is 200 ft?
If you are on a mountain and you are lost, and you find a stream, what should you do?
Follow the stream downhill till you get to a road.
The Royal Gorge was formed this way.
What is erosion by a river?
Aquatic mammals often referred to as "nature's engineers"
What is the beaver?
This prickly plant thrives in Colorado’s foothills and has edible fruits called tunas
What is the prickly pear cactus?
According to LNT, solid human waste in desert or alpine environments should be packed out because these ecosystems lack this essential element for decomposition.
What is moisture?
True or False: When building a shelter, branches, leaves, and grass will keep the water out.
True
The highest mountain in Colorado.
What is Mount Elbert?
This fish, originally native to the pacific rim, has become one of the most widespread fish in the world and has the scientific name "Oncorhynchus mykiss"
What is rainbow trout?
This high-altitude flower opens at night, smells sweet, and is an important pollinator plant for hawk moths.
What is the evening primrose
How you react when a bear approaches you.
What is standing still and waving your arms (or making yourself big and noisy)?
What is the most certain way to make sure suspect water is pure and safely disinfected?
What is boiling?
The San Juan Mountains were formed differently than all the other mountains in Colorado by this method.
What is volcanic activity?
Primarily distributed on the eastern plains, this ungulate is the fastest land mammal in North America, reaching speeds of 60mph
What is the pronghorn?
This plant, often used in indigenous and early settler medicine, has fuzzy leaves and is known as “nature’s toilet paper.”
What is mullein?
Wildlife are constantly at risk of being killed and removed from campgrounds when people do these often innocent, yet harmful activities. There are two in particular.
What is feeding the wildlife and leaving your trash out?
What side of a tree does moss usually grow on?
North, more towards northeast. Because that side has less sun and is most moist
One of the features which adds to Boulder's dramatic setting at the base of the Rocky Foothills are a series of steep-sided peaks which rise above the town. What are these peaks called?
What is The Flatirons?