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!
Download the app:
Be sure to download the app at places with internet connection before getting to the trailhead since Mud Lake does not have internet connection. Download the Boulder Watershed Collective’s smartphone app by clicking the appropriate Download button found below on this page. Follow the app prompts to install the application and open the ‘Mud Lake’ guided hike. App download may take 1-3 minutes.
The map of the two mile Mud Lake hike you will be guided along once you download the app.
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/
Feedback
We would love to gather your ideas, suggestions and comments about this new audio guided version of ‘Take-a-hike’. Please follow this link to fill out a short questionnaire so we can improve the user experience: tinyurl.com/TAHform
