They found Boulder’s forgotten apple trees. Now they’re saving them.

They found Boulder’s forgotten apple trees. Now they’re saving them.

After years spent mapping the remnants of Boulder County’s once-vibrant apple tree population, a local preservation project is now planting new orchards to help ensure rare and nearly forgotten varieties aren’t lost forever.The Boulder Apple Tree Project (BAPT) began in 2017, when CU Boulder ecology professor Katie Suding’s children spotted an old apple tree growing improbably in an open prairie near their home. She pulled together a team of sci…