Welcome! We’re excited to guide you to six different learning spots along 2 miles that follow the beautiful trails at Mud Lake (see map below) on our new Take-a-hike smartphone app. Once you download this free app, you will be guided by a map that shows where you are in real time as you hike to each stop. Once you arrive at a stop, play the audio narration associated with that stop to learn about the diversity of trees, plants and animals, as well as the services and management decisions that support these wetlands, forests and mountains. Use the instructions below to download this free app on your smartphone or smart device and join us as you Take-a-hike!

**Be sure to download the app at places with internet connection before getting to the trailhead since Mud Lake does not have internet connection.

Explore more about Mud Lake here.

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The map of the two mile hike you will be guided along once you download the app.

 

Download the app:

At places with internet connection before getting to the trailhead, download the Boulder Watershed Collective’s smartphone app by clicking ‘Download App’ button below. Follow the app prompts to install the application and open the ‘Mud Lake’ guided hike. App download may take 1-3 minutes.

 

**If the app is not downloading properly, download the following readable script of the audio to guide you instead.


Resources & References to Learn More…

Indigenous Territories

Native Governance Center: https://nativegov.org/a-guide-to-indigenous-land-acknowledgment/

American Library Association: https://www.ala.org/aboutala/offices/denver-colorado-tribes

Native Land: https://native-land.ca/

Clark’s Nutcracker

Williams et al 2020: https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ecs2.3085

Forest Types, Management & Wildfire Regimes

Alizadeh et al 2021: https://www.pnas.org/content/118/22/e2009717118

Colorado State Forest Service: https://csfs.colostate.edu/colorado-forests/forest-types/lodgepole-pine/

USFS - Addington et al. 2018: https://www.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/pubs/55638

USFS - Fishlake National Forest: https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/fishlake/home/?cid=STELPRDB5393641

Mud Lake Uses & Formation

Boulder County Open Space - Wier 2014: https://bouldercountyopenspace.org/i/property/mud-lake-water-ore-shrubs/

Wetlands

Colorado Wetland Information Center: https://cnhp.colostate.edu/cwic/library/field-guides/

Kusler 2011: https://www.aswm.org/pdf_lib/how_wetlands_differ_from_traditional_waters_061410.pdf

Lizama et al 2011: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0045653511004139

Nahlik & Fennessey, 2016: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms13835

Sullivan et al 1999: https://content.sph.harvard.edu/mining/files/Dublin_wetlands.pdf

USA EPA: https://www.epa.gov/wetlands/what-wetland

The Continental Divide

National Geographic: https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/continental-divide/

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