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Ride your bike to ward off cycling’s Zombie Apocalypse

In the ancient poem “The Epic of Gilgamesh,” the Goddess Ishtar proclaims: I will knock down the Gates of the Netherworld, I will smash the door posts, and leave the doors flat down, and will let the dead go up to eat the ...

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Three-seminar water law series on way

Whether it’s simply a coincidence or divine intervention, the water course being offered next month by the Water Center at Colorado Mesa University comes at an opportune time. The three-seminar series on water law, policies and ...

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Top of the Pines: Get up there and enjoy majestic San Juans

Breathe deep.  No, not here. Get out of town. Then, breathe deep.  Fresh air does so much for our health and vitality. It clears the head, clears the lungs and invigorates body, mind and spirit.  Hopefully a little storm ...

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Can’t find the moose? try looking a bit more

It would not be hard to make a convincing argument that of Colorado’s mega-fauna, moose are the most popular. Although only a handful of moose are harvested each year compared with the 45,000 or so elk and 76,000 deer that hunters kill ...

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Take caution eating fish from Sweitzer Lake

Beginning in April, a regulation change will allow the take of carp from Sweitzer Lake near Delta. The change is a big move for Colorado Parks and Wildlife, in part because biologists long discouraged this corner from writing about Sweitzer ...

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Ranger Trails: Keep nature trash-free 
by helping spruce up park on monument

For every hiker and cyclist who derives pleasure from the scintillating panorama of Colorado National Monument, there looms a window of opportunity to make it sparkle even brighter. Ditto for photographers, campers, astronomers, motorists, ...

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Get Out! Trails in Loma will test your mettle

September is usually when I start taking longer and more technical bike rides. I look for rides with more hills and more rocks. In the fall, after months of riding, I try to see just how much progress I’ve made over the summer. This ...

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Ranger trails: Summertime blues: Making the switch from the monument 
to classroom

It’s never too cool to see our summers come to an end. Like most kids whose summer vacation collides with a new school year at this time, bittersweet feelings overwhelm our old prefrontal cortex. Autumn already? Say it isn’t so. ...

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Partnership to let hunters prowl area near Meeker

Among the game-rich management units elk and deer hunters dream about are the units in northwest Colorado harboring the White River elk and deer herds. Hunters each fall willingly gamble precious preference points to draw a license for theses ...

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Ranger Trails: Star Power: Taking some inventory of the night sky

Strangely enough, most Americans find ourselves in the dark on the subject of light pollution. I used to figure light pollution was a minor toxic spill — just made fish dizzy without actually killing them. Wrong. NASA, the federal ...

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