Change in Foliage
Surprisingly, there are still some trees with leaves on them! Interestingly enough, the majority of the trees that still have leaves are coniferous trees, which is most likely due to the nature of the trees and their resilience to hostile growing conditions. The vegetation however, seems to have sadly all died due to the cold weather that is at Red Rocks.
The leaf litter seems to have increased a great deal as compared to the last blog post. While there wasn’t too many signs of decomposition we can still expect these fallen trees to be decomposed at some point and returned to the soil.
Due to said leaf litter, I was unable to find tracks/traces of animals but I did hear the trace of bird sounds! I’m not sure as to what species they were but I was surprised to have seen that there was still so many active during this time of the year.