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416 Fire

Added by yongli on 01/25/2021 - 14:14, last changed on 11/01/2022 - 21:41
Ignited by embers from a coal-fueled passenger train on June 1, 2018, the 416 Fire burned 54,130 acres of the San Juan National Forest in southwest Colorado. By the time it was fully contained on July 31, it had become the sixth-largest wildfire in Colorado history. Although the fire briefly...

Bison Reintroduction

Added by Nick Johnson on 11/20/2022 - 08:10, last changed on 05/30/2023 - 06:02
Conservation efforts and reintroduction of the American bison ( Bison bison ) in Colorado began in Denver during the early twentieth century. By that time, the bison population had declined precipitously since the mid-nineteenth century because of overhunting and the development of cities,...

Fort Lewis College

Added by yongli on 02/22/2017 - 13:22, last changed on 08/25/2017 - 20:40
Fort Lewis College is an accredited four-year liberal arts school located in Durango . Originally an army post , Fort Lewis evolved into an Indian boarding school in the late nineteenth century before the state of Colorado purchased the facilities in 1911. The deed accompanying the purchase...

San Juan Mountains

Added by yongli on 08/01/2016 - 15:16, last changed on 11/02/2022 - 12:43
The San Juan Mountains are the largest mountain range by area in the Centennial State, spanning thirteen counties in southwestern Colorado. In addition to being the home of the Ute Indians for hundreds of years, the mountains intrigued Spaniards , lured the prospectors of the Colorado Gold Rush ,...

Western Slope

Added by yongli on 01/23/2017 - 16:14, last changed on 11/02/2022 - 06:40
“A Fantasy land,” “a mystique,” “a state of mind”—these are only some of the expressions used to describe the Western Slope of Colorado, commonly defined as the roughly one-third of the state that lies west of the Continental Divide . The serpentine divide forms the region’s eastern boundary,...
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