Tag: Southeast Colorado
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Cotton in CO? Southeast farmers test if crop has potential to take hold
BENT COUNTY — It’s easy to spot Caleb Wertz’s fields along the farmland east of Las Animas. About half of the Wertz family’s land is growing corn but the other half is filled with scraggly, foot-high plants dotted with soft white bulbs. Bulbs as soft as cotton. The Cotton Belt has never reached into Colorado before. But with…
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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big, blocky hotel that was a Best Western and then a Rodeway Inn and then closed — dark, damaged and stained, full of outdated furniture and pigeons — was no place for the upscale restaurant that EJ Carpenter and Ezra Gutierrez had in…
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Cloning: The latest in black-footed ferret recovery in Colorado and beyond
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save For years, Colorado Parks and Wildlife officers have driven out to the eastern plains in the middle of the night, a predator’s hunting hours, in hopes of spotting a pair of green, gleaming eyes. Officers are expected to do just that sometime next year, out…
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‘Unique and unforgettable’ opportunity to walk with dinosaur tracks in Colorado
The U.S. Forest Service has opened an experience that only comes around every so often in Colorado. As weather allows every Saturday through June 15, the agency is offering guided auto tours to Picket Wire Canyonlands on the state’s southeast Comanche National Grasslands, outside La Junta. That’s the remote, rugged tract home to a long…
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Colorado Department of Transportation urges motorists to avoid driving during ‘treacherous’ winter storm
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Rain before 9 p.m. Wednesday will turn into snow after 11 p.m. and may dump up to 16 inches of the white stuff in the metro Denver area, prompting the Colorado Department of Transportation to urge motorists to avoid travel during the storm. Road conditions are forecast to be “treacherous,” according to a CDOT news…
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In smalltown Colorado, a woman’s mission to restore a church — and keep her family’s story alive
MANZANOLA • The only sounds the town knows these days are the occasional cattle trailer rumbling down the street past abandoned storefronts, the occasional train that does not stop anymore, the crickets and the woodpecker and the dove. Now there’s hammering from a corner. A motor hums, powering the lift for the construction man reaching…
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Now is the time to go see busy tarantulas of southeast Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save While Coloradans flock to view fall colors and the elk rut in Estes Park, now is also the time for a similarly unforgettable natural phenomenon on the state’s often overlooked southeast plains. This one might get you more in the Halloween spirit. Now through much…
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In southeast Colorado, surprise canyons offer stunning trip through time
Laneha Everett knows how the rest of Colorado views her generational homeland out on the southeast prairie. “A lot of people aren’t that inspired,” she says. “But when you dig down a little bit, and you learn about some of the stuff that happened here, it becomes really fascinating. The beauty of the landscape is…
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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…