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Did you know? You can help take steps to conserve our precious water resources.

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Diverse, water-wise ColoradoScapes bring beauty and interest to your yard throughout the year while offering food and refuge to urban wildlife. Photo credit: iStock/MelodyanneM.

Kentucky bluegrass, the default groundcover planted in Colorado for decades, needs extensive additional irrigation every year to survive our semi-arid climate. But as Denver’s average temperature has risen in the last decade, we must take steps to conserve our precious water resources.

Remodeling lawns and landscapes to create diverse, water-wise ColoradoScapes — that include cooling tree canopies and plants that fit naturally into our climate — will benefit our communities, wildlife and the environment.