Planting Colorado: Everything about the Canvas on Which Life is Painted Plants provide what we need and much we enjoy, including the lifescapes that support other animals: grazing bighorn sheep, pollinating bumblebees, seed-stashing nutcrackers. “Planting Colorado” — just as looking for birds is birding, looking for plants is “planting!” — will detail our plant richness and how plants sustain the animals we love. We drew four lines to box off a chunk of land that we subsequently named Colorado. It sprawls across portions of the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, and the Colorado Plateau. Textured with river canyons and mountain ranges and robed in lifescapes of grasslands, shrublands, and treelands, this place we call home supports a wealth of wildlife more diverse than a storyteller’s imagination. “Colorado’s Nature” will spend the next year enriching what you already know about that wildlife, introducing you to kinds of wildlife you never knew were your neighbors, and detailing when, where, and how to find that wildlife.