‘Campus Life: 150 Years of Human and More-Than-Human Relationships‘
Historical landscape books, field guides, and illustrated volumes of CU Boulder flora and fauna line the shelves at the “Campus Life” exhibit inside the Jerry Crail Johnson Earth Sciences & Map Library. (CU Independent / Melodie Miller)
The University of Colorado was founded on a treeless plain 150 years ago, but today, more than 5,000 trees later, the campus is recognized as an Arbor Day Foundation Campus of Higher Education that effectively maintains urban forests.
This history is at the center of “Campus Life,” an exhibit in the Jerry Crail Johnson Earth Sciences & Map Library that traces 150 years of relationships between people, plants and animals on campus. The planning decisions made more than a century ago continue to shape how the campus community coexists with its biological neighbors.
The Center for Community dining garden is surrounded and filled with drought-resistant plantings. (CU Independent / Melodie Miller)
Throughout the campus grounds, plantings enhance the beauty of the environment while maintaining a commitment to non-human habitats, minimal water use and other environmental considerations.
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