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Grand Valley Irrigation

Added by yongli on 08/01/2016 - 13:06, last changed on 11/02/2022 - 12:43
The story of irrigation in Colorado’s Grand Valley speaks volumes about the reciprocal relationship between land and community in the arid American West. Early white colonizers of Colorado’s Western Slope espoused concepts of landscape and water control that physically transformed the landscape...

Mesa County

Added by yongli on 06/27/2016 - 15:11, last changed on 11/17/2022 - 01:41
Mesa County is situated on 3,341 square miles of the eastern Colorado Plateau in western Colorado. The county is named for the wide, flat-topped mountains within its borders. The Spanish called such mountains mesas —meaning “tables.” The county’s largest mesa, Grand Mesa , rises more than 11,000...
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