Tag: grand junction
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Protection or overreach? In western Colorado, national monument proposal ignites controversy
Sean Pond was around a small town of his native western Colorado when he spotted a man in a blue ball cap. Above the bill were the words at the center of an ongoing controversy: “PROTECT THE DOLORES.” Pond approached the man. “He said someone at REI just gave it to him and he liked…
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Protection vs. overreach: In western Colorado, national monument proposal ignites controversy
Sean Pond was around a small town of his native western Colorado when he spotted a man in a blue ball cap. Above the bill were the words at the center of an ongoing controversy: “PROTECT THE DOLORES.” Pond approached the man. “He said someone at REI just gave it to him and he liked…
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8 whitewater parks around Colorado
Drop into many of Colorado’s riverside towns and you won’t need to go far to find the culture of play. Increasingly over the years, towns have built and expanded central meeting places for enthusiastic kayakers, tubers and stand-up paddleboarders: whitewater parks of rock-made waves, drops and rapids. Whether you partake or spectate, here are eight…
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Fentanyl Family: Inside Colorado’s deadly overdose siege
Starting in late 2016, Bruce Holder and his wife began smuggling thousands of fentanyl-laced pills over the border, through a quiet border station in Lukeville, Arizona. In the coming years, the family-turned-drug network would dominate the early fentanyl trade in western Colorado. Fentanyl has killed more than 1,600 Coloradans and tens of thousands of Americans…
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Colorado River Towns | Grand Junction
Welcome to Grand Junction, the town named for the meeting of two rivers.
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Flash flood warnings, closures for several Colorado burn scars
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Western Colorado saw flash flooding near several burn scars as rain and thunderstorms continued throughout the state Wednesday, causing I-70 to be closed for several hours. I-70 opened back up at around 8:20 p.m. on Wednesday after Colorado Department of Transportation crews removed two small mudslides…
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Flash flood warnings, closures for several Colorado burn scars
Western Colorado saw flash flooding near several burn scars as rain and thunderstorms continued throughout the state Wednesday, causing I-70 to be closed for several hours. I-70 opened back up at around 8:20 p.m. on Wednesday after Colorado Department of Transportation crews removed two small mudslides a few inches thick flowed from the roadway, the department…
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Colorado wildfire burns federal land near Grand Junction
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — A wildfire burning mostly federal land 18 miles north of Grand Junction was caused by a lightning strike, officials said. The fire started Friday and has spread across over 2 square miles of Bureau of Land Management land despite low winds. No structures are expected to be threatened, officials said, but…
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Pendley: BLM move to Grand Junction could be ‘traumatic’ for some employees
The acting director of the Bureau of Land management reaffirmed on Thursday the agency’s decision to move its headquarters to Grand Junction, despite the unhappiness of some employees. “We are being as compassionate as we possibly can, but at the same time, we have a job to do and we want to get it done,”…