Volunteers help green Alta's Collins Gulch, Albion Basin

ALTA — On a late summer riff on a bluebird day, more than 100 volunteers spent their Saturday morning planting evergreen seedlings to help build biodiversity at Alta Ski Area, a site once stripped nearly bare of trees by mining operations in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.Jennifer Clancy, executive director of Friends of Alta, said volunteers and representatives from about a half-dozen organizations met for an early breakfast Saturday morning, then rode to the top of Alta's Collins