Where you should definitely not put your garden
There’s a reason it’s the first rule of fire-wise gardening.
The new reality of life in the WUI
Your garden has a big job to do in keeping your home safe in a wildfire-prone area.
Is my garden a fire hazard?
Choose native species from CSU’s Fire-Wise Plant List for a garden that improves your home’s fire defensibility.
8 Climate-Adapted Plants that Build Pollinator Habitat
Hardy and adaptable, these plants will continue to provide food and shelter for pollinating bees and butterflies as the climate gets warmer and drier.
Want to intern for us this summer?
Get your hands in the dirt and make a positive change where you life. Friends of Coal Creek is seeking interns for Summer 2025.
Help us find the young poets of Coal Creek.
Announcing a bilingual (English and Spanish) poetry contest for middle- and high-schoolers who live or attend school in Erie, Lafayette, Louisville, Superior or Golden.
Team ‘Chewbarka’ Enters Homestretch with Confidence
The Coal Creek beaver naming contest remains close as it enters the homestretch. Vote today! ($1 = 1 vote)
Exploring the Upper Creek
Exploring Coal Creek's wild side — and wildlife — where it exits the canyon above Superior.
How’s Coal Creek Faring After the Marshall Fire? Take A Look Under its Banks.
Nearly two years after the Marshall Fire raged through Boulder County, much of the visible damage to Coal Creek has faded. However, unseen impacts continue to threaten ecosystem health and resiliency.
Backyard Biodiversity Project, Part 3: Native Lawns
Time to roll up the green carpet to make way for biodiversity.
Backyard Biodiversity Project, Part 2: Where to Begin?
I wanted garden harmony but kept finding indecision and stress.
Backyard Biodiversity Project, Part 1: Tearing out the Turf Grass
“So much for the promise of landscape paper.” A Lafayette homeowner ditches the turf grass to transform her backyard into habitat.
Adopt a Pollinator Island
We need your help with weeding and watering at one of our Lafayette pollinator islands this summer.
Introducing A. Manette Ansay, our first writer-in-residence
Introducing A. Manette Ansay, bestselling author of Vinegar Hill and our first Writer-in-Residence.
Donate a Pollinator Plant to the Trails at Coal Creek Project
Purchase a plant for the pollinator island!
A Big Chance to Better Creek Habitat in Lafayette
Prairie restoration in urban areas is a patchwork enterprise. Every patch matters and this one, by virtue of its size, is key.