Results for keyword: Colorado
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Follow-up
Colorado’s Great Sand Dunes now a national park; health screening program for former nuclear workers to expire; Forest Service didn’t break any laws with its Sierra Nevada PR campaign; rocket-burning begins at Oregon’s Umatilla Chemical Depot
by Laura Paskus, Oct 11, 2004 -
The beauty of the ugly West
Towns like Wamsutter, Wyo., may never be quaint and charming, but they can lay claim to their own rough beauty once a real community takes root
by Paul Larmer, Sep 13, 2004 -
Dear friends
Blake Chambliss walks for affordable housing; visitors; farewell to Charlie Butcher; corrections
by Laura Paskus and Greg Hanscom, Aug 16, 2004 -
The Greening of the Plains
A conservation movement is stirring on the Great Plains, but local farmers are stuck with a harsh reality: It still pays to plow up virgin prairie
by Josh Garrett-Davis, Aug 02, 2004 -
Mining law claims mountain
Crested Butte, Colo., residents are angry that the BLM has sold the mining giant Phelps Dodge 155 acres at the top of Mount Emmons – the town’s beloved "Red Lady" – for about $5 an acre
by Kristina Johnson, Jun 21, 2004 -
Mining town gambles on a road to riches
The rivalry between two Colorado gambling towns has led Central City to begin building a new highway to draw visitors directly to its casinos rather than to those of its more successful neighbor, Black Hawk
by Joshua Zaffos, Jun 21, 2004 -
At home on the range with 10-year-old writers and dreamers
A teacher at a small rural school in Colorado encourages her young students to express their feelings and describe the world they live in
by Kate Krautkramer, Jun 07, 2004 -
Wilderness up for lease
Citizen-proposed wilderness areas in the West are the latest battleground in the war over oil and gas drilling on the public lands
by Zachary Smith, Jun 07, 2004 -
Buying time against the energy assault
Bidding on oil and gas leases for conservation purposes in places like Delta County, Colo., could prove to be a risky strategy, some environmentalists warn
by Zachary Smith, Jun 07, 2004 -
Heard around the West
Fargo gets trendy; confrontation at the Chuck-A-Rama; Colorado tsunami; right places, wrong photos; Reagan U. bites the dust; endangered dinosaurs; Monterey County, Calif., is "birdiest" in the country
by Betsy Marston, May 24, 2004






