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Category Archives: January 2011
Still bogged down over roads and travel in Boggy Draw
Related: Chappell says county is concerned about locals It was a cautiously cordial meeting Dec. 20 in Dove Creek between two sets of local county commissioners and several San Juan National Forest officials, but at the end the parties appeared … Continue reading
Published in January 2011
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Chappell says county is concerned about locals
Related: Still bogged down over roads and travel in Boggy Draw Now that representatives of Montezuma and Dolores counties are meeting regularly with San Juan National Forest officials, Montezuma County Commissioner Steve Chappell is hopeful that the counties will be … Continue reading
Published in January 2011
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Artist Keith Hutcheson’s vision of the outdoors
Keith Hutcheson is a contented artist today. His retrospective painting exhibit at the Anasazi Heritage Center is an opportunity to survey decades of his own visual art work hanging as a portfolio in its entirety for the first time. He … Continue reading
Published in Arts & Entertainment, January 2011
Tagged anasazi heritage center, keith hutcheson
Will the wolverine be restored to Colorado?
Colorado’s wolverine population has grown recently. It’s up to a total of one. In 2009, a male wolverine trapped and collared in the Grand Tetons of Wyoming journeyed 500 miles to Colorado and took up residence in the high peaks … Continue reading
Published in January 2011
Tagged endangered species, wolverine
‘Two Spirits’ will get a national airing on PBS
“Two Spirits,” the award-winning documentary about the murder of a gay Cortez teen in 2001, will gain a national audience this summer when it is broadcast on PBS. The film is scheduled to be shown June 14 on PBS stations … Continue reading
Published in January 2011
Tagged fred martinez, two spirits
Medical marijuana on federal lands: What are the regulations?
The use of marijuana for medical purposes has become legal in three of the Four Corners states, but because the drug is still banned federally, it remains illegal on national- forest land, in federal housing and on some Indian reservations. … Continue reading
Published in January 2011
Tagged medical marijuana
Helping Native Americans to be heard
Ever since the advent of the reservation system, Native Americans have struggled with poverty, unemployment and alcoholism. Art Neskahi of Cortez believes that some of those problems can be traced to the disconnection between Indians and their historic roots. “The … Continue reading
Published in January 2011
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