Old Capitol Grill in the Morning
Photo by Richard Luckin
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Photo by Betsy Barr: I accidentally mis-attributed this picture yesterday...thanks for the wonderful photos, Betsy!
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Photo by Betsy Barr: I accidentally mis-attributed this picture yesterday...thanks for the wonderful photos, Betsy!
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What's happening in Golden today?
Events for Monday, Jul. 29th
- All day - CURRENT EXHIBITS AT THE MUSEUMS
- All day - Live Workouts with Community Center Pros
- 7-9AM - Clear Creek Corridor Cleanup
- 10:15-10:45AM - Let's Dance
- 12-12:30PM - Mondays with the Mayor
- 2-3PM - Virtual: Active Minds Monday
- 5:30-7PM - Peaks to Plains Trail Public Meeting
- 6-9PM - Teach Me to Play! Mondays
For more information, click the item above or visit the Golden Today Calendar
GoFarm is Hiring!
Local Food Share Program Director position summary:
The GoFarm Local Food Share (LFS) Program Director works to ensure a positive and educational experience for all GoFarm Local Food Share members and customers. The position is responsible for directing food distribution logistics and aesthetics, assisting with training, managing interns and volunteers, maintaining customer communication, and responding to customer needs. The LFS Program Director also conducts community outreach to increase local food share memberships and awareness about GoFarm and its programs.
Apply here: https://www.gofarm.org/careers
Full-time position.
People of color are encouraged to apply.
Bilingual (Spanish language) and bicultural preferred.
Apply by August 7th!
Come join our fun, diverse, collaborative team at GoFarm!
GoFarm: Strengthening the Local Food System and Building Healthier Communities
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5:30-7PM Peaks to Plains Trail Public Meeting @ City Hall
Photo by Joyce Davell
Golden has become increasingly popular in recent years. The regional P2P Trail connecting Idaho Springs to Denver will be a major part of this popularity, especially with Jefferson County Open Space securing funding for the remaining unbuilt trail. This popularity also brings challenges to the existing Clear Creek Trail which is struggling to accommodate tubers, cyclists, pedestrians, residents, and visitors at peak times. This project will conduct an alternatives analysis and engage with the Golden community to determine the best route for a 'secondary route' of the P2P Trail through Downtown Golden.
The City is hosting the second public meeting to present the draft alternative routes developed based on feedback from the first meeting.
Learn more about the project and upcoming public engagement opportunities.
City Hall Council Chambers
911 10th Street (map)
What’s Blooming in Rocky Mountain Ponds? Water Lilies!
Figure 1. Top left: “Rocky Mountain Pond Lily” — Nuphar polysepala Engelm. — in Lily Lake. Top right: Section through flower. Bottom: Panorama of Lily Lake, Lake County, Colorado.
By Tom Schweich
I was on the road this past week, botanizing the subalpine zones of Lake County. One of my favorite places is Lily Lake between Leadville and Tennessee Pass. In theory a forest road goes there, but in practice it’s about a mile hike, and the Lily Lake Loop, a Pike San Isabel National Forest trail, passes by the lake.
What’s at Lily Lake? The “Rocky Mountain Pond Lily” — Nuphar polysepala Engelm.
Water lilies do not occur in Golden. The closest ponds with water lilies are found around Eldora and Nederland in Boulder County.
Water lilies are part of a "primitive" group of flowering plants. By primitive, botanists mean that the group evolved and became distinct very early in the evolution of flowering plants – sometime in the Cretaceous (145 to 66 million years ago). One line of evidence to support this is that they have a mix of traits normally not found together in the same plant. Specifically, they have traits of both monocots (grasses and true lilies) and dicots (daisies and roses), two groups into which flowering plants may be divided. Apparently, water lilies evolved before the separation of these two great evolutionary lines.
Our plant was first recognized as something worthy of study from a fragmented collection by Dr. F. V. Hayden (of the future “Hayden Expeditions”) who collected it in Idaho in 1860. The first Colorado collection was an 1862 collection by a Miss Merrill made at Gibson’s Lake, near Long's Peak, but not with enough material to describe the plant. Finally, Dr. Charles C. Parry gathered ample material in 1864 at Osborn's Lake, also in the Long’s Peak region, which Dr. George Engelmann used in writing a description. Neither Gibson’s Lake nor Osborn’s Lake are current names for lakes in either Larimer or Boulder Counties.
George Engelmann, M.D. (1809 – 1884) was a German-American botanist. He was instrumental in describing the flora of western North America and was particularly active in the Rocky Mountains and northern Mexico. Living in Saint Louis, Missouri, Engelmann was visited by many western explorers on their way west and again upon their return, so he got a first look at freshly collected western plants. Engelmann was a founder and longtime president of the St. Louis Academy of Sciences and encouraged the wealthy St. Louis businessman Henry Shaw to develop his gardens to be of scientific as well as public use. "Shaw's Gardens" became the Missouri Botanical Garden, a premier western botanical garden and research center.
We have eleven plants that are native to Golden that Engelmann first identified for science, including three cacti and the buffalo grass that I wrote about recently.
Most of these characters, like Charles Parry MD and George Engelmann MD, we have met before, and I’m sure we will see them again. William A. Weber, botanist at University of Colorado – Boulder, wrote Parry’s biography, titled, “King of Colorado Botany: Charles Christopher Parry, 1823-1890.”
Get this on your calendar: Weds meeting about overnight closures of the Lookout Mtn Road
Photo courtesy of Jefferson County
Weds. July 31st, 6-7:30PM, Lookout Mtn Nature Center (map)
Please join us to discuss next steps related to the nighttime vehicle access management on Lookout Mountain Road.
Currently there are two projects in progress on Lookout Mountain Road - overnight closures and roadway safety. This meeting is about overnight closures only.
Live Music for Monday, Jul. 29th
For more information, visit the Golden Today Calendar
Golden History: Agriculture in the Clear Creek Valley
The Easley Farm from the 1892 Golden Globe Industrial Edition – Click to enlarge
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Until Coors began a growth spurt in the 1950s, the area between the two Table Mountains was filled with small farms. The July 26, 1893 Colorado Transcript featured an article titled “Our Table Mountain Gardens.” It reports on several of the farms in the Clear Creek valley.
Charles Palmer grew apples, cherries, alfalfa, and grapes. He also had two green houses, each 18×60. In these, he grew small fruits and vegetables for the winter market. J. Smith grew “especially fine” green beans as well as turnips, beets, sweet corn, cane fruits, and tomatoes. Reese Easley had 160 acres of rich soil and most of his crops were sold in Golden.
Mrs. Smith and her two sons grew apples, small fruit, and vegetables. “They have brought a cactus and boulder covered second bottom tract to great perfection for the purpose designed." A.C. Shock had a large orchard, small fruits, and market garden tracts under cultivation. He bred livestock–especially horses–and had had bees and poultry. Mr. Shock had a two acre reservoir which provided water to his house, was stocked with fish, and became an ice pond in winter.
Upland farms (farther from the Creek) did well with less moisture-intensive grain crops, such as wheat and oats.
Thanks to the Golden History Museum for providing the online cache of historic Transcripts, and to the Golden Transcript for documenting our history since 1866!
Weather
Overnight: Clear. Low around 64, with temperatures rising to around 66 overnight. West northwest wind around 8 mph.
Monday: Areas of smoke after noon. Sunny, with a high near 95. West southwest wind 5 to 9 mph, with gusts as high as 17 mph.
Monday Night: Mostly clear. Low around 67, with temperatures rising to around 69 overnight. West northwest wind 6 to 9 mph.
Monday Night: Mostly Clear, 67°F
Tuesday: Sunny, 95°F
Tuesday Night: Partly Cloudy, 67°F
Wednesday: Sunny, 94°F
Wednesday Night: Mostly Clear, 66°F
Thursday: Sunny then Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 94°F
Thursday Night: Mostly Clear, 68°F
Friday: Sunny then Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 94°F
Friday Night: Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Partly Cloudy, 67°F
Saturday: Mostly Sunny then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 91°F
Saturday Night: Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Partly Cloudy, 66°F
Sunday: Mostly Sunny then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 92°F
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