Tag: Camp Amache
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Meetings scheduled to help plan new National Park Service unit in Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Anyone interested in one of Colorado’s latest National Park Service additions is invited to a series of upcoming meetings. They have been scheduled ahead of the agency drafting a “foundation document” for Amache National Historic Site, the place on the state’s southeast plains where thousands…
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Bird Call: Learning to bird by ear at Colorado snow geese festival
When Alison Kondler imitates a raven, you’d be forgiven for thinking a real raven just popped on the phone call. Not only is the Denver Audubon master birder a font of knowledge, she can create jaw- dropping realistic bird sounds with merely her mouth. It all started with a mean water drop imitation — imagine…
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Granada school teacher, students help enshrine Camp Amache’s legacy
When John Hopper, dean of students for the Granada School District, began teaching his history students about Camp Amache in the early 1990s, the site was a sage-brush strewn prairie dotted with concrete foundations. Now, after Hopper and his students spent decades preserving the former Japanese American internment camp from World War II, advocating for it,…
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President Biden signs legislation designating Colorado’s Camp Amache a national historic site
President Joe Biden on Friday signed bipartisan legislation to add the site of a World War II-era Japanese American internment center in the southeast corner of Colorado to the National Park System. Sponsored by Colorado lawmakers U.S. Reps. Joe Neguse and Ken Buck and U.S. Sens. Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper, the Amache National Historic…
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Gov. Polis calls for national park designation for former Japanese internment camp site
Gov. Jared Polis wants to turn the former site of Colorado’s Japanese internment camp into a national park, preserving the area and its history for future generations. Polis sent a letter to the National Park Service Tuesday, asking for its support in the inclusion of the Granada War Relocation Center, also known as Camp Amache,…