Assistance in visually identifying Colorado Noxious Weeds on List A (eradication), List B (management) and List C (education). Pictures of plants on each list are displayed in alphabetical order by their Common name, with their Scientific name also given. Free guide available exclusively on www.hotmeal.net. BTW, many of the weeds are very edible - yum - I hope that they add information on the common edible weeds soon! Image link: Here is a link that might be useful: www.hotmeal.net

Do salt cedars really have deep roots? I have heard some articles claim that the roots go down 100 feet. But has anyone really dug down and found out how deep the roots really go down? I doubt it? The experts used to believe that all tree roots went down really deep. Then they found out that most roots of large trees only only go down 3 or 4 at the most. The salt problem is caused by dropping the water table too much. This is caused by humans wasting water on swimming pools, washing cars, and other wasteful activities. It is convenient to blame it on the salt cedars, but it is just not true. People just waste too much water. Another claim that the anti salt cedar people put out is that if the salt cedar is eliminated then suddenly the water table would rise and the rivers would flow like crazy. In New Mexico along the Pecos River they have removed a lot of salt cedars. The river nor the water table has risen. Also the cottonwoods have not returned. All there is is a lot of dead salt cedars that are a fire hazard. This is the great Salt Cedar myth. We need some serious study of salt cedars before removing them. Another concern that I have is what will happen if they are removed from all the small creeks. Now they slow the water down in flash floods. If they are gone, then the water will charge down the creeks and cause all kinds of damage.

You can look into the primitive camp sites - There are quite a few of them especially on Bureau of Land Management land - Primitive camp sites may take a bit more effort but they are far less crowded. There are very few sites that are not near some popular destinatin, even up in the passes, like the Clarks Fork area of the Sonora pass where there are horse camps and primitive camps, seems like someone is always a little too close by. There is a book out called FREE CAMPING and TOM STIENSTRA camping books are very informative, and will let you knkow about some of the more primitive sights - beware some primitive sights are used by off roaders who have fully self contained RVS and will haul toys to a nearby track to run their noise polluting machines. Shasta around the McCloud area, Trinity and the Lost Coast areas of the State have fewer people using them, Sequoia and Kings canyon are far less populated than Yosemite. For a really great people free or alot less people camp time, go in the off season. I have camped out at Sequoia in April before the season started and practically had the place to myself. Even places clser to home like Samuel P Taylor park have alot fewer people in the winter months than the summer. OH and check out Kirby cove, which is practically free of campers and is within eyesight of SF. Camping World does sell a couple of good camping books, but the informatin is not as detailed as Steinstra's books and most people who shop at Camping world are RV'ers. Good Luck

I got this booklet through the Alzeimers web site. It is a very nice little booklet. My Dad has AD. The price was GREAT! You can't get better than FREE!!!