Tag: National Park Service
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Debate over wilderness rock climbing at center of federal review
The U.S. Forest Service and National Park Service have proposed national guidance for anchors fixed on rocks across wilderness areas — a point of increased concern among climbers and conservation advocates in recent years. In an article early this year titled “A War on Wilderness Climbing?” the sport’s national leader in advocacy, Boulder-based Access Fund,…
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Just south of Colorado border, you can walk into a volcano crater
CAPULIN, N.M. • Just beyond Colorado’s southern border into New Mexico, a lonely highway runs through fields of cattle and pronghorn, of windmills and splintered, crumbling remains of homesteads. Then the mountain emerges. Now the imagination travels to a time long before the Wild West. The mountain’s shape is unmistakable — “a striking example of…
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Colorado author teaches kids about wilderness safety with moose, mountain goat rangers
Meet the Mountain Mtn. Rangers: a moose and goat that explore the wilderness and learn about preservation principles. Their journeys make up the “Mountain Mtn. Rangers” series, written and illustrated by Silverthorne-based author Erin McCrea. The children’s book series focuses on educating kids about wilderness safety, especially those relevant to Colorado. The series so far…
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Colorado Air National Guard celebrates 100 years of aviation
From biplanes to F-16s and possibly, one day, F-35s or F-15EXs, the Colorado Air National Guard (COANG) celebrated 100 years of defending the skies they call home Sunday. During a “family day” celebration, a silver, World War II era P-51 Mustang in COANG markings parked next to an F-16 in a special, Colorado-themed livery, and…
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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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‘It’s just what we wanted’: Winks Panorama awaits higher recognition as haven for Black travelers
With a fresh coat of orange paint sitting on his cottage, Obrey Wendall Hamlet, bursting with excitement, wrote a letter thanking the land’s original developers. “It’s the keenest pleasure I have ever experienced. It thrills and fills me with love for the out-of-doors,” Hamlet, who went by “Winks,” wrote. His own cottage, nestled in the…
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‘There’s a reckoning in history’: Colorado historians work to preserve Green Book sites
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Painted in black and white, a group of young girls laugh in their swim trunks and caps as they splash around in the cool waters of South Boulder Creek. The year is 1935, and the girls are enjoying the day at a summer camp in…
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Denver-based real estate company Trelora acquired by Houwzer
Denver-based Trelora, a discount real estate agency that disrupted the Denver market a bit by offering flat fees instead of the typical Realtor commissions, has been bought by Houwzer, according to a news release. Terms of the deal were not released. Both companies have marketed a ‘flat-fee, full service’ real estate option, with a selling…
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The rise, fall and resurrection of Colorado’s ‘Castle of the Plains’
LA JUNTA • It is out near a crossroads in southeast Colorado, somewhere between parched fields and dusty towns abandoned by industries that built them, between struggling farms and crumbling homes and wide-open grasslands that go unchanged, preserved, appearing just as they did in the days of wagons over the Santa Fe Trail. It is…
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7 ‘endangered places’ saved in Colorado by program celebrating milestone
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In late 1998, a bunch of nerds gathered for beers at Denver’s Wynkoop Brewing Co. They represented agencies big and small from around the state dedicated to preserving history. “It was a pretty lively conversation from the very beginning,” one in attendance, Kim Grant, recalls.…