Tag: Lamar
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Researchers in Colorado using cutting-edge tech to track the continent’s most endangered mammal
LAMAR — Hours after being released into a prairie dog town on the vast Southern Plains Land Trust, a game camera picked up on one of five captive born black-footed ferrets finding a burrow for the night. So far, so good. Later, in the early hours of the morning on Wednesday, a badger came by…
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In southeast Colorado, a petrified wood building and a family bond equally strong
LAMAR • This is a story about time. The time we get and what we do with it. Our brief time amid deep time that surrounds us — ancient time represented by petrified wood, one might say. “There’s probably a whole forest under the sand,” Jim Stagner says here on Colorado’s southeast plains. Which explains…
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The rebirth of Cow Palace: Renovated hotel brings upscale dining to Colorado’s plains | Craving Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save LAMAR • The big, blocky hotel that was a Best Western and then a Rodeway Inn and then closed — dark, damaged and stained, full of outdated furniture and pigeons — was no place for the upscale restaurant that EJ Carpenter and Ezra Gutierrez had in…
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Weekend things to do around Denver and beyond
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save THURSDAY-SUNDAY That beautiful white blizzard covering the prairie near Lamar is actually thousands and thousands of migrating Arctic geese. They’re the reason for a fascinating birding event, the High Plains Snow Goose Festival, drawing droves of bird…
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Broomfield man missing after camping in southeastern Colorado
Officials searched for a missing Broomfield man Tuesday after he was last seen camping in southeast Colorado on Sunday, Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials said. The 28-year-old camped with a group of friends over the weekend at Two Buttes State Wildlife Area, about 40 miles south of Lamar, officials said. On Monday evening, the friends…