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From research and conservation to education and community programs-your generosity helps protect alpine plants and the planet.
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Discover the beauty and wonder of alpine plants. Marvel at the vibrant color and unique structure of plants that can only exist at higher altitudes in the extreme climate conditions found in alpine regions. Frigid winters, cool summer nights, intense UV rays, violent summer storms, strong uninhibited winds. Experience the plants that have adapted to thrive in these remarkable circumstances.
Exhibits, activities and our outdoor living plant collections are open daily from dawn to dusk, offering a peaceful retreat in every season. To deepen your experience, visit our Education Center, open weekdays from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM. Starting Memorial Day, the Education Center expands its hours to open daily from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM for the summer season. Admission is free (donations are greatly appreciated), allowing everyone to connect with the beauty of the high alpine.
Plant conservation is an integral part of Betty Ford Alpine Gardens.Our goal is to educate visitors about the deterioration of plant biodiversity around the world and particularly the vulnerability of the world’s high alpine flora.
At 8,200 feet on the Roof of the Rockies, Betty Ford Alpine Gardens is uniquely positioned to address conservation of the fragile alpine environment. The Gardens has partnered with Denver Botanic Gardens to author the North American Botanic Garden Strategy for Alpine Plant Conservation. Through a series of Objectives and Targets the goal of the strategy is to create a plan for protecting North America’s alpine plants.
Working with plants in their natural setting is always a priority.
Important Plant Areas
Identifying the most important alpine plant communities is critical to understanding conservation priorities. Important Plant Areas (IPA’s) are areas with high species richness as well as areas with rare and threatened species.
Monitoring and Understanding
Plant monitoring techniques are used to gain an understanding of population changes year by year.
In contrast to work conducted in the wild population, ex situ efforts focus on creating conservation collections in the botanical garden setting, such as banking seed and propagation studies
Seed Banking
Banking seed from wild populations is an important step for preserving species for the next generation
Propagation Studies
Working to understand how to grow plants from seed is critical to their conservation.
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Nicola has a BS in Biology and an MS in Ecology. Nicola has traveled widely giving talks, collecting seed and studying alpine flora.
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From research and conservation to education and community programs-your generosity helps protect alpine plants and the planet.
Join us in an e ort to document alpine plant diversity! As part of the first objective of the Alpine Strategy: to understand and documentalpine plant diversity, we are interested in knowing where alpine plants are, and when they are blooming. To this end, we developed the Colorado Alpine EcoFlora Project, a community-science botany project powered by iNaturalist, the free, easy-to-use nature identification app. The two goals of this project are: 1. Increase awareness of and appreciation for alpine plants in Colorado; and 2. Obtain research-grade observational data from around the state that will help us understand distributions of alpine plants.eff
Join us in an e ort to document alpine plant diversity! As part of the first objective of the Alpine Strategy: to understand and documentalpine plant diversity, we are interested in knowing where alpine plants are, and when they are blooming. To this end, we developed the Colorado Alpine EcoFlora Project, a community-science botany project powered by iNaturalist, the free, easy-to-use nature identification app. The two goals of this project are: 1. Increase awareness of and appreciation for alpine plants in Colorado; and 2. Obtain research-grade observational data from around the state that will help us understand distributions of alpine plants.eff
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