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Caribou Ranch

As I was driving to work the other day, I heard that Caribou Ranch had been sold for 32.5 million dollars.  The town of Caribou is located just outside Nederland proper and has a storied history of fame and fortune through the years.  Caribou is located at around 9800 feet…

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Red Rocks

This past week, we were able to catch a concert at Red Rocks Amphitheater in Morrison, Colorado.  Fortunately for us, the bad weather stayed just south of the area, and we had a beautiful evening to sit out and hear the Indigo Girls in concert.  While the music was great,…

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What is this creature?

As a park ranger, people visiting parks look to you as the expert.  Because of this, I frequently get asked about something they’ve seen during their visit — an animal, a bird, a flower.  When I worked at Sequoia National Park, we were constantly getting asked, “What’s the white flower…

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Flooding Again?

Yikes — most of us still have the images of last September of still fresh in our minds of our historic flood.  Today, the National Weather Service issued a Flash Flood Watch for the next couple of days for serious amounts of rain to fall and more flooding for the…

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