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Category Archives: February 2012
Forest Service, commissioners fail to reach agreement on travel (web only)
By Jim Mimiaga The formal appeal by the Montezuma County commissioners to halt the proposed Boggy-Glade Travel Management Plan will go forward after last-ditch negotiations with the U.S. Forest Service failed on Feb. 7. During a two-hour meeting at the … Continue reading
Published in February 2012
Tagged resource management plan
Montezuma County takes over a problem road
After years of arguments over locked gates, public access, and historic rights-ofway, Montezuma County, the Forest Service, and a private landowner have tentatively agreed on an amicable resolution to a conflict over a Mancos-area road. On Jan. 23, Patrick McCoy, … Continue reading
Published in February 2012
Are Navajos fairly represented in San Juan County, Utah?
In San Juan County, Utah, a slight majority of the population is Navajo. Yet there is only one Navajo on the county’s three-member board of commissioners – and, critics say, that isn’t likely ever to change, because of the way … Continue reading
Published in February 2012
Getting plastic out of the Grand Canyon
Try to buy a single-use plastic water bottle in Grand Canyon National Park this spring, and you might end up high and dry. The park has a plan in the works to ban the sale of disposable plastic water bottles, … Continue reading
Published in February 2012
An exhibit on the mysteries of the Hohokam
A special exhibit at the Anasazi Heritage Center called “Pieces of the Puzzle: New Perspectives on the Hohokam” allows visitors to travel back in time to an ancient culture that flourished between 450 A.D. and 1450 A.D. The Hohokam occupied … Continue reading
Published in February 2012
Boaters mull a plan to aid native fish on the Dolores
Boaters on the Dolores River below McPhee Dam are being asked to concede some of their whitewater flows towards improving habitat for a declining native-fish population. And they seem to be in a sharing mood. Since the Dolores River was … Continue reading
Published in February 2012
Tagged dolores river
Instruments of pride: The MCHS band
Keep one thing in mind if you go to a Montezuma-Cortez High School football game: Don’t go to the bathroom during halftime. If you do, you might miss the marching band, and they are not something to be missed. Last … Continue reading
Published in February 2012