Tag: San Luis Valley
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Law gives San Luis Valley control over disruptive fences
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save SAN LUIS • Residents of this rural San Luis Valley community, who have been fighting for decades for access to a mountain landscape guaranteed to their ancestors, celebrated a significant victory Tuesday. Colorado Gov. Jared Polis visited San Luis to sign into law a bill that gives…
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Colorado 14er reopens through waiver requirement
Legal access is returning to a 14,000-foot peak in Colorado. Mount Lindsey is reopening to individuals through an online waiver, which Colorado Fourteeners Initiative (CFI) announced in a Facebook post Tuesday. The post included a link to the website, mountlindseywaiver.com, where the waiver can be electronically signed and kept before one embarks to the privately…
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Sandhill cranes are back in southern Colorado. Here are 5 facts
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save One of Colorado’s great wildlife spectacles is underway. And for a 42nd year, the Monte Vista Crane Festival returns to honor it. The festival runs March 7-9 — three days of arts, exhibits, lectures and tours to the surrounding, nutrient-rich fields where thousands of greater…
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The massive fence that has divided means of life in the San Luis Valley
SAN LUIS • This land has gone by many names. The “Sangre de Cristo Grant,” so named by the Mexican government in 1844 to encourage settlement. “Taylor Ranch.” And now “Cielo Vista Ranch.” For Eli Rael, whose ancestors moved here in the late 1800s, it’s always been simply “La Sierra,” a communal mountain landscape where settlers…
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Sandhill cranes making much-anticipated return to Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save One of Colorado’s most anticipated natural phenomena is about to get underway. Sandhill cranes start flying into the San Luis Valley this month for their annual stopover. The majestic birds — long-legged with 6-foot wingspans, guttural songs and dances beloved by legions of admirers —…
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’12 Days of Colorado’: Celebrating the state’s natural gifts, verse by verse, this holiday season
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A “true love” is the gift-giver of a carol we sing every holiday season. Colorado’s gift-giving, meanwhile, is year-round — and the gifts are many more than a dozen. But sure, we’ll call it “The 12 Days of Colorado.” And we’ll even match the rhythm…
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Giving thanks to Colorado’s outdoors: Enthusiasts pick favorite destinations
The mountains outside our door. A more distant basecamp for adventure. A stretch of the Colorado Trail and newly public land waiting to be explored. These were some of the responses we heard to the question we ask around this time every year: What are we most thankful for across this state’s great outdoors? It’s…
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From harsh rituals to hard-earned play, legends grow in this Colorado canyon
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save SAGUACHE COUNTY • Fields of crops and sage sprawl toward the Sangre de Cristo peaks in one direction, the San Juans in another, their wonders seemingly far away on this lonely, dusty stretch of U.S. 285. But here in the San Luis Valley, wonders tend…
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Annual beach scene starting to form in Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado’s most curious beach is starting to take shape. As April was turning to May, Medano Creek was making its annual appearance at the foot of North America’s highest sand dunes. Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve reported “a shallow, gentle flow,” with initial…
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Alamosa man pleads guilty to 5 murders from 2020
An Alamosa man pleaded guilty on Monday to the murder and dismemberment of five people in a heinous crime which rocked the San Luis Valley during the first summer and fall of COVID. Prosecutors said that Adre Baroz, 29 — whose nickname was “Psycho” — committed the murders over a period of two months from…