• Landscaping

    Colorado Springs weighing new residential landscaping standards to preserve water | Subscriber-Only Content

    New Colorado Springs homes could be surrounded by far much more native grasses and flowers like penstemons and coneflowers, fairly than endless seas of Kentucky bluegrass, to assist maintain h2o.  The proposed Colorado Springs zoning code could restrict the amount of grass irrigated with sprinklers all-around new residences to 25{6d6906d986cb38e604952ede6d65f3d49470e23f1a526661621333fa74363c48} of the yard, excluding areas where by crops won’t be able to improve, these kinds of as a driveway, patio or deck. The code would also inspire drought resistant and native crops. The restrictions on lawns would not apply to current properties. Placing in indigenous vegetation alternatively than lawns would not only assistance conserve water but also enable aid indigenous…

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  • Natural Landscape

    Call for Pikes Peak to be renamed to its Ute name gains steam | Subscriber-Only Content

    Austin Box, a Southern Ute tribal elder, knows the story well. “When they were camped here, rather than the sun coming down on the lower area, it went up to Pikes Peak first and showed the sunlight there,” he says in a slow, easy cadence. “When the tribe looked up, they saw the sunlight. The sun wasn’t shining on the lower area. That’s why they named it Sun Mountain. Tavá Kaa-vi.” The 91-year-old Pikes Peak region resident and member of the Ignacio-based Southern Ute Indian Tribe sometimes refers to Pikes Peak by its Ute name — especially when he’s speaking about his cultural heritage. Southern Ute Tribal Elder Austin Box, who…

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