Crested Butte

Part of: Colorado

Scale: local

Coordinates: 38.9500, -107.0300

Elevation: 3170m

Habitat: mountainous terrain, Alpine watershed, subalpine meadow, mountain town, very grassy meadow, subalpine ecosystems, meadow, lakeside meadow, and willow, alpine, heavily grazed area, montane, Thlaspi arvense population area

Also known as: Crested Butte area, Crested Butte Area, Crested Butte Region, Mt. Crested Butte, Mount Crested Butte, Mt Crested Butte, Crested Butte South, Snow Crested Butte, Crested Butte Pass, Crested Butte East, Crested Butte West, Crested Butte North

Papers: 291 | Mentions: 498

Child Places (24)

Crested Butte

Child Places (24)

Ballrooms at the Lodge at Mountaineer Square

CB Center for the Arts

Cold Springs Ranch

Crested Butte Center for the Arts

Crested Butte Community School

Crested Butte Historic District

Crested Butte Land Trust Confluence Parcel

Crested Butte Water Purification Plant

Crested Butte substation

Deer Creek Trail/Kettle Ponds

East River Pump House area

Hunter Hill

Lower Loop multi-use trail

Main Street corridor

Nicholson Lake

Oh Be Joyful campground

Old Railroad Depot

Silver Sage

Slate River watershed

Slide Rock Rd

Smith Hill mine

Washington Gulch Trail #403

Western State College Union Ballroom

upper Slate River

Publications (297)

Assessing anthropogenic effects on golden-mantled ground squirrel and least chipmunk flight initiation distances

Measurement report: An investigation of the spatiotemporal variability in aerosols in the mountainous terrain of the upper Colorado River basin using SAIL-Net

A Bayesian record linkage approach to applications in tree demography using overlapping LiDAR scans

Society formation and maintenance in yellow-bellied marmots

Canopy structure modulates the sensitivity of subalpine forest stands to interannual snowpack and precipitation variability

Is social plasticity good? Does lifetime social variation enhance LRS and longevity in yellow-bellied marmots?

Rare species do not disproportionately contribute to phylogenetic diversity in a subalpine plant community

Datasets (133)

SOS: Terrestrial Scanning Lidar L2 Upwind East Tower Raw Point Clouds. Version 1.0

SOS: Terrestrial Scanning Lidar L1 Upwind East Tower Raw Point Clouds. Version 1.0

SOS: Terrestrial Scanning Lidar Derived Land/Snow Surfaces. Version 1.0

Meteorological and Soil Data from Ecohydrology Sensor Towers at Pump House and Snodgrass Mountain in East River Watershed, Colorado, 2019-2025

Seasonal Precipitation Classification during Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory Campaign

SOS: Terrestrial Scanning Lidar L5 Downwind Tower Raw Point Clouds. Version 1.0

SOS: Terrestrial Scanning Lidar L4 Upwind West Tower Raw Point Clouds. Version 1.0

SOS: Terrestrial Scanning Lidar L6 Downwind Tower Raw Point Clouds. Version 1.0

Documents (68)

Final Record of Decision for the Revised Land Management Plan for the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre, and Gunnison National Forests

Notice of Intent To Establish a Campground Fee on Public Land in Gunnison County, Colorado

Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre, and Gunnison National Forests; Gunnison County; Colorado; Crested Butte Mountain Resort Ski Area Projects

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Threatened Status for Gunnison Sage-Grouse

Spruce Beetle Epidemic and Aspen Decline Management Response; Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests (GMUG), Colorado

The Conduct and Evaluation of a Cloud Seeding Program For The Upper Gunnison River Basin, Colorado During The 2011-2012 Winter Season

Resource Protection Study, Final Environmental Impact Statement, Curecanti National Recreation Area, Colorado

Lowhead-Micro Hydropower 2008

Species Studied Here

Bombus bifarius

Bombus

Picea engelmannii

Bombus flavifrons

Bombus impatiens

Bombus terrestris

Bombus balteatus

Beetles

Delphinium barbeyi

Delphinium

Matrix diffusion controls mountain hillslope groundwater ages and inferred storage dynamics

Seasonality and albedo dependence of cloud radiative forcing in the Upper Colorado River Basin

Metagenome-assembled genomes for oligotrophic nitrifiers From a mountainous gravelbed floodplain

The short life of upvalley wind in a high-altitude valley in the Colorado Rocky Mountains

A nectar-inhabiting bacterium may not influence female fitness in Ipomopsis aggregata

The effect of human pressure on the flight initiation of montane breeding birds throughout the summer breeding season

The effect of human pressure on the flight initiation of montane breeding birds throughout the summer breeding season

The impacts of environmental change on plant and microbial communities: A turf transplant experiment in the Colorado Rocky Mountains

Soil signals of key mechanisms driving greater protection of organic carbon under aspen compared to spruce forests in a North American montane ecosystem

Social security: individuals in socially reciprocal groups may perceive security from predators

Observations of surface energy fluxes and meteorology in the seasonally snow-covered high-elevation East River watershed during SPLASH, 2021–2023

Multilevel selection on individual and group social behaviour in the wild

Effects of elevation on salamander life strategies

Is early life adversity associated with adult stress in a wild rodent?

What sexual diversity in the natural world can teach humans about sex, gender, and inclusive biology

Elucidating the influence of a nectar yeast and nectar robbing on bumblebee foraging tactic constancy

Biofluorescence as a Mechanism of Sexual Selection in Ambystoma mavortium nebulosum