For Colorado ranchers and producers, productivity stems from the soil. In the face of growing water scarcity and climate ...

However, the regulation of NSC in biological soil crusts across different slope positions remains unclear. In a recent study ...

Western Slope producers partner with state to boost soil health as water scarcity challenges deepen The Colorado Department of Agriculture’s soil health program was created in 2021 by the state ...

In this study, they found that oligotrophic species such as Acidobacteriota, Chloroflexi, Verrucomicrobiota, and Ascomycota were predominantly enriched above the treeline, whereas copiotrophic species ...