Tag: Dolores County
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Rescuers find lost woman at 11,200 feet after nightfall in remote Colorado wilderness
On Tuesday evening, the San Miguel County Sheriff’s Office and the local search and rescue team responded to the report of a 48-year-old woman from Phoenix who went missing during a hike. The woman was last known to be on the Woods Lake trail, which is located roughly 12 miles west of Telluride in the…
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Drought along a Colorado river calls for extreme efforts to enforce water laws: A badge and a gun
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save CORTEZ — There’s an adage among Western farmers, ranchers and outlaws that has been uttered through generations of disappointment and joy: “Whiskey’s for drinking and water’s for fighting over.” And water scarcity driven by drastic climate-change along the Dolores River in southwest Colorado has been…
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Texas hunter fatally shot in southwest Colorado
An out-of-state man is in custody after reportedly shooting and killing a Texas hunter in Dolores County on Friday. Ronald Morosko, of Elizabeth, Pa., is being held in the Montezuma County Jail on suspicion of committing a criminally negligent homicide, according to the Dolores County Sheriff’s Office. First responders were sent to the Kilpacker Trailhead…