When it comes to the environment, Gary Young simply love trees. His home in Fort Collins, Colorado is adorned by trees of the Rocky Mountains. Native and migratory birds, animals and fish thrive there.
This is a short history about how Colorado forests have been mismanaged. This resulted in repeated large region die-offs.
His grandfather came from England in about 1905 to be a gold miner in Central City. He witnessed forests being stripped off mountain sides for miles around gold mines. Gold was discovered in Cripple Creek near Pikes Peak in 1890. It has quietly produced more gold than all of California and Alaska combined. The mine is now powered by electricity from coal and gas fired power plants and supported with steel structures.
The forests are coming back. Modern civilization can do a lot better than the plunder and disregard for the environment of the past.
