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National Park Service

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2012

    Civic Center in the running to become a national historic landmark

    Within the next three to nine months, Denver's Civic Center could become the city's first national historic landmark. Earlier this week, Mayor Michael Hancock testified at a National Park System advisory board meeting in favor of the area's qualification of the honor, which will move to the National ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2012

    Ken Salazar's plans for tourism in San Luis Valley generates protests

    Ken Salazar.​Two weeks ago, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar surfaced in Alamosa, surrounded by state leaders, to present the results of a federal study aimed at promoting tourism and conservation in the San Luis Valley. The National Park Service's study pushes for conservation easements, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 16, 2012

    Latest Word is off for Martin Luther King Day...but the news marches on

    Latest Word is off to mark Martin Luther King Day, but will be back on duty early tomorrow morning. The Martin Luther King Marade (that's march/parade) gets under way this morning at 9 a.m. The Colorado Progressive Coalition will be holding its own rally before the marade, asking for police accounta ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2012

    Ken Salazar: How green is his San Luis Valley?

    On Wednesday, Alamosa-born Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar will return to his roots -- again -- as part of a long-simmering effort to promote tourism and conservation in Colorado's much-praised, much-neglected San Luis Valley. Accompanied by Governor John Hickenlooper and Senators Michael Benn ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 14, 2011

    Occupy Denver's legal team explores precedents regarding tents and symbolic speech

    ​With 23 arrests related to Occupy Denver this weekend, the group's legal team is constantly adapting. This includes a new decision to request that arrestees go through the public defender's office instead of receiving volunteer counsel, as well as frequent reflections on precedents. At this w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2011

    Summer's Ending: 8 Great Weekend Roadtrips You Need to Take Now

    National Park Service​It's the first week of August, so it's likely that many of you are experiencing Endofsummeritis. You may think there's nothing you can do but watch the slow creep to winter, and before you know it, you will be shoveling your car out of six feet of snow while icicle tears form ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 30, 2011

    O'er the Land of the Free

    National Park Service​It's the first week of August, so it's likely that many of you are experiencing Endofsummeritis. You may think there's nothing you can do but watch the slow creep to winter, and before you know it, you will be shoveling your car out of six feet of snow while icicle tears form ... More >>

  • News

    April 14, 2011

    Under Yogi Bear, history hunters gather in search of Fort Lincoln

    National Park Service​It's the first week of August, so it's likely that many of you are experiencing Endofsummeritis. You may think there's nothing you can do but watch the slow creep to winter, and before you know it, you will be shoveling your car out of six feet of snow while icicle tears form ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2010

    John Salazar: Land swap aids big donor

    John Salazar.​While Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has been enduring a summer of media broiling over everything from the BP oil spill to federal wild-horse roundups, his brother John has been coolly and quietly toodling toward re-election and a fourth term in Congress. But now, the Oth ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2010

    Human poop in the woods: Weekend conference in Golden aims to wipe out growing problem

    A Flickr photoNot okay.​ You know what's gross? Poop. You know what's even grosser? Poop in your water. How to prevent that from happening will be the subject of an outdoorsy conference at the American Alpine Club in Golden this weekend. The conference is cleverly titled Exit Strategies -- as ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2010

    Ken Salazar finds oil spilling from Gulf into Colorado

    ​The Deepwater Horizon disaster keeps spilling into my inbox, more than 1,300 miles from the Gulf of Mexico, where there's "oil for miles and miles," Attorney General Eric Holder lamented yesterday in New Orleans. Denver is more than 1,300 miles from the Big Easy, but the disaster has spilled ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2010

    Ken Salazar's shakeup at Interior: Where will it all end?

    There's a new sheriff -- and a lot of new acronyms -- in town.​In the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil slick disaster, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar is barreling ahead in his efforts to reform the embattled Minerals Management Service, the once-obscure agency responsible for overseein ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2010

    Steven Clay Romero pleads guilty to dragging Buddy the dog to death

    Steven Clay Romero: Should he be sentenced to serve time in a kennel?​Some of those designated Westword's Shmuck of the Week earn this honor for kinda silly reasons -- like, for instance, the condom website that implied Coloradans have small dicks. Not so Steven Clay Romero, named after he wa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 12, 2010

    Michelle Malkin on internment camps and the positive side of racial profiling

    ​You won't find Michelle Malkin, the conservative commentator who now calls Colorado home and was just named one of the right's top 25 journalists, out at the Denver Federal Center today. That's because the National Park Service will be holding a meeting at 10 a.m. on $3 million in grants ava ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2010

    Steven Clay Romero indicted for dragging Buddy the Dog to death

    Steven Clay Romero won't be getting his own show on Animal Planet.​Some individuals accused of crimes wind up generating a significant amount of sympathy -- but that's unlikely to happen for Steven Clay Romero -- because of what he's accused of doing to a dog named Buddy. Late yesterday, a gr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2009

    New website charts what parts of Colorado are being stimulated

    A photo from the StimulusColorado.org website. StimulusColorado.org, a new website co-sponsored by Associated General Contractors of Colorado, the Colorado Association of Mechanical and Plumbing Contractors, Colorado Contractors Association, the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce and the Metro Denver ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2009

    Wake Up Call: The week ahead -- when worse comes to verse

    Before we were panicked about swine flu and twisted by torture-memo leaks, we were terrified by the Devil Horse, Luis Jimenez's killer sculpture that stands guard outside Denver International Airport, its red eyes shooting deadly lasers at unsuspecting passersby. Or are those glowing orbs actually ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2009

    Ken Salazar extinguishes a Bush fire sale

    Ken Salazar, the new Secretary of the Interior, who spent much of last week traipsing around the Denver area declaring that there's a new sheriff in town, has taken what he calls "an important first step" in restoring balance to federal public lands policy -- pulling the plug on a controversial sa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2008

    Environmental group rips Obama's choice of Ken Salazar as Interior Secretary

    Local coverage of Barack Obama's selection of Colorado Senator Ken Salazar as the next Secretary of the Interior has mostly been rah-rah, sis-boom-bah. Take the Denver Post editorial "Salazar a Wise Choice for West, Nation." But as noted in a National Public Radio story, assorted environmental gro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2008

    USA Today Reporter Patrick O'Driscoll Lands on His Feet

    Local coverage of Barack Obama's selection of Colorado Senator Ken Salazar as the next Secretary of the Interior has mostly been rah-rah, sis-boom-bah. Take the Denver Post editorial "Salazar a Wise Choice for West, Nation." But as noted in a National Public Radio story, assorted environmental gro ... More >>

  • Culture

    April 19, 2007

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    April 12, 2007

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    April 5, 2007

    Now Playing

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  • Culture

    March 15, 2007

    A House With No Walls

    Thomas Gibbons keeps the race conversation going.

  • News

    April 13, 2006

    A House Divided

    Black Hawk plays the Lace card.

  • Culture

    February 16, 2006

    Mind and Matter

    Art and physics at the Mizel Center, plus a salute to the late Barbara Sudler Hornby.

  • News

    January 26, 2006

    Digging Deep

    On Mesa Verde's hundredth birthday, there's still a lot of dirt behind the "Mystery of the Anasazi."

  • News

    October 27, 2005

    Carbon Loading

    Xcel’s solution to rising energy prices includes a lot of coal. Is that a bad thing?

  • Calendar

    April 28, 2005

    Wild World

    A park ranger gives the skinny on forest follies.

  • News

    September 23, 2004

    Loved to Death

    Besieged by crowds and Front Range pollution, Colorado's premier national park is a vanishing wilderness.

  • Calendar

    November 13, 2003

    Lights, Camera, Reaction

    Films highlight human rights

  • News

    October 23, 2003

    At Close Range

    The Cherry Creek Shooting Center finds itself under the gun.

  • Culture

    May 15, 2003

    Sunset for Skyline

    Downtown's masterful modernist park is being destroyed.

  • News

    September 13, 2001

    Forward Into the Past

    At Camp Amache, a school project reopens an ugly chapter of Colorado history.

  • Culture

    August 16, 2001

    The More Things Change...

    Landmarks rise and fall in Denver.

  • Culture

    March 1, 2001

    Digging Up the Past

    Theater students at UCD explore the history of a Japanese internment camp.

  • News

    August 19, 1999

    Black to Nature

    Bill Gwaltney wants to see more people like him at Rocky Mountain National Park.

  • News

    June 10, 1999

    Shifting Sands

    Bill Gwaltney wants to see more people like him at Rocky Mountain National Park.

  • News

    May 20, 1999

    The Wild Life

    Special agents of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service fight battles outdoors and in the office.

  • News

    September 10, 1998

    Weed Kills?

    How harmful is Russian knapweed? Park volunteers are told to keep hands off.

  • Calendar

    September 10, 1998

    Night & Day

    September 10 - 16, 1998

  • News

    February 26, 1998

    Artsbeat

    September 10 - 16, 1998

  • Culture

    December 18, 1997

    Through the Past, Deftly

    September 10 - 16, 1998

  • News

    September 18, 1997

    The Height of Insult

    Best-selling author John Krakauer gets caught in the dispute between "Mr. Longs Peak" and the Park Service.

  • News

    September 4, 1997

    It's the Pits

    Mining made history in Victor. But will a new gold rush devour its future?

  • News

    July 24, 1997

    Grave Reservations

    The Colorado Historical Society has collected Indian artifacts for 120 years. Now it has to give many of them back.

  • News

    June 19, 1997

    Letters

    The Colorado Historical Society has collected Indian artifacts for 120 years. Now it has to give many of them back.

  • News

    May 1, 1997

    Woe, Pioneers

    A whole new crop of problems is sprouting in a historic black farming settlement

  • News

    September 13, 1995

    TRANSCENDENTAL DESECRATION

    IN SEARCH OF SPIRITUAL VIBES, NEW-AGERS RUN ROUGHSHOD OVER ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK.

  • News

    July 13, 1994

    TIME BANDITS

    PRISONERS TACKLE HISTORIC-PRESERVATION PROJECTS.

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