David and Kay James are doing a good business raising
"grass-finished" beef on their ranch near Durango, Colo.
Items by Peter McBride
Wind power is getting a second wind, especially on the
"wind farms" of Wyoming.
The many Latino immigrants who work in Aspen, Colo., try
to keep their own culture alive behind the scenes of the high-end
resort town.
After four years, the Sangre de Cristo Land Grant
Commission decides to end talks with landowner Zachary Taylor over
purchasing the controversial Taylor Ranch in Colorado's San Luis
Valley.
Zachary Taylor sells a third of the controversial Taylor
Ranch - locally known as La Sierra - to an undisclosed
buyer.
As the logging of the Taylor Ranch resumes, protests flare
up in the local community of San Luis, Colo.
Developer Evan Melby in his own words talks about his
plans for building a subdivision in Costilla County.
In his own words, San Luis mayor and saloon-owner Joe
Espinoza talks about the community's problems with the Taylor Ranch
owners.
Costilla County, Colorado's attempts to rein in logging
and gain access to the Taylor Ranch their Hispanic forebears used
as a commons are frustrated by a wave of mostly Anglo newcomers who
want no part of any planning regulations.
Building the newest addition to Colorado's hut system for
skiers and hikers meant long, cold hours of work at 11,300 feet in
the Gore Range.
The tiny Christian Church of Bethlehem in Emma, Colo.,
serves the spiritual - and other - needs of Mexican and Central
American immigrants who work in nearby Aspen.
Forest Service plans to tear down a 63-year-old cabin some
call a "historical, aesthetical and botanical treasure."
Atlas Minerals Co. says cleaning up uranium tailings near
Moab may prove too expensive.
The Last Straw quarterly covers straw-bale housing
construction.
Colorado Division of Wildlife says new law won't provide
adequate protection against cross-breeding between domesticated and
wild elk herds.
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