Rocky Mountain Arsenal

Sierra Club labels Jefferson Parkway one of the worst projects in country

Cabinet members Ken Salazar and Ray LaHood were at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal last week, announcing a deal that adds 1,200 acres to the Rocky Flats wildlife refuge and stretches the Rocky Mountain Greenway. But some weren't celebrating the announcement.

Rocky Mountain Greenway announcement today had a rocky buildup

At 2 p.m. today, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar will join Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood and Governor John Hickenlooper to make a "major announcement" about the Rocky Mountain Greenway, and also celebrate the recent expansion that added 1,200 acres of wildlife habitate to Rocky Flats ... More >>

Rocky Flats still off-limits during National Wildlife Refuge Week

Bucks at Arsenal.This is National Wildlife Refuge Week, and the feds are encouraging you to "see what wildlife refuges are doing to conserve America's wildlife heritage." But when I asked if I could see Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge, the regional U.S. Fish & Wildlife office declined that requ ... More >>

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Five things to do at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge

Just ten miles northeast of downtown Denver is one of the largest urban wildlife refuges in the country. Formerly a chemical weapons manufacturing plant and subsequently a highly contaminated hazardous waste site, the 16,000-acre Rocky Mountain Arsenal Wildlife Refuge is now home to a diverse popula ... More >>

Art-O-Mat artist Kathy Fisher on making cigarette machine art

Five dollars buys you a collage by Colorado artist Kathy Fisher. Fisher creates collages for Art-O-Mat, the company that turns old cigarette machines into art-dispensers -- one of which, since last month, has made its home at the VSA Colorado/Access Gallery on Santa Fe Drive. Fisher took some time t ... More >>

Top five pitches for John Hickenlooper and Michael Hancock to use on California businesses

Eat this, In-N-Out.​In a repeat of a trip he made with then-governor Bill Owens back in 2003, Governor John Hickenlooper is now winging his way to California. He and new Denver mayor Michael Hancock are officially trying to encourage businesses there to expand to Colorado -- and, unofficially, ... More >>

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Commerce City buys Mile High Greyhound Park: There goes Rusty!

​Commerce City is no longer going to the dogs. A few years ago, the industry-heavy town north of Denver thought it was in such need of a new image that it considered changing its name. Instead, it's now aggressively working on a physical makeover -- and has just purchased the former Mile High ... More >>

Fracking Aurora is a natural gas: Kenny Be's Worst-Case Scenario

​ On Thursday, June 23, 2011, the Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Commission will explain how hydraulic fracturing (fracking) operations on the former Lowry Bombing Range comply with Arapahoe County's 2007 Sustainable Growth Objectives. It will be an easy sell...

Rocky Mountain Arsenal Visitors' Center opens to the public

​Over the past fifteen years, the federal government has turned the Rocky Mountain Arsenal, once one of the most contaminated Superfund sites in the United States, into a wildlife refuge, complete with nature trails, lakes for fishing and summer camps. Tomorrow, the Arsenal will open its newes ... More >>

Pueblo nuclear power plant proposal radiates with fear from Japan and Rocky Flats fallout

Rocky Flats​Yes, timing is everything. Last night, opponents of a proposed nuclear power plant in Pueblo County pointed to the situation in Japan as just one reason to stop the project. And tonight, experts will talk about how nukes already resulted in plutonium contamination outside the forme ... More >>

Rocky Mountain Arsenal's transition from Superfund site to wildlife refuge is complete

​Fifteen years after Shell Oil Company and the U.S. Army began a massive, $2.1 billion cleanup at Rocky Mountain Arsenal, one of the most contaminated Superfund sites in the United States, the Army is getting ready to hand over the last of its cleaned parcels to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Serv ... More >>

Ken Salazar under fire: Can he survive the spill?

All systems go, but which way? Out the door?​It was fairly predictable that Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar would emerge as the whipping-boy of conservative pundits over the Deepwater Horizon spill. What better symbol of the alleged impotence of the Obama administration than a cowboy-ha ... More >>

Ken Salazar: Lessons on the Gulf spill from Denver's own "toxic horror"

Photo by Alan PrendergastWhite-tailed deer cross a road at the Rocky Mountain National Wildlife Refuge.​Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has been spending a lot of time on the Gulf Coast lately, dealing with the noxious plumes (environmental and political) spewing from the Deepwater Horiz ... More >>

Annual count is for the birds

It's time to count birds again, and we don't mean your Thanksgiving and Christmas turkey dinners. The Audubon Society of Greater Denver, in conjunction with local Audubon groups around the nation, is asking its members to count the birds they see in their back yards on New Year's Day - a tradition ... More >>

For the Birds

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Art of Chance

Borchert tries his luck

Off Limits

It's curtains!

Cultural Pioneers

Campaign for Tibet remembers the Rowells

This Is a Job for Superfund!

Colorado's legacy of contamination spreads far and wide.

Best Liquid Asset

David Jamiel

Off Limits

A calendar hits the wall.

Bombs Away!

The government built a nuclear-weapons plant sixteen miles upwind of Denver. But decades passed before the public got wind of what was happening there.

Off Limits

Happy Birthday, DIA!

Night & Day

July 1 - 7, 1999

Letters

Mr. Clean

Superfund ombudsman Robert Martin is either a white knight -- or an EPA whitewash.

Toxic Wait

Some residents say the Rocky Mountain Arsenal still isn't clean enough to polish Commerce City's image.

Shy, but Not Retiring

Colonel Bishop, Rocky Mountain Arsenal boss, has left the Army--but he's already back on the job.

Up From Underground

Twenty Years of Denver

While You Were Away

Letters

Letters

And Not a Drop to Drink

Wade in the Water

Governor Romer and the lieutenant governor step into the Animas-La Plata dispute.

A SPY IN THE HOUSE OF LOVE

DENVER-BASED HARRIET THE SPY LOOKS FOR PUNK IN ALL THE RIGHT PLACES.

PEOPLE & PLACES

THRILLS

THE YOUNG AND THE CRESTFALLEN

GLOWING REPORTS

THERE'S PLENTY OF GOOD NEWS ABOUT ROCKY FLATS. AND YOU'RE PAYING FOR IT.

PIECE OF THE ROCKY

OVERSIGHT OVERKILL

HOW MANY OFFICIAL WATCHDOG GROUPS DOES IT TAKE TO CLEAN UP THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN ARSENAL? TWO, SO FAR.

LETTERS

SPORTS & RECREATION

LETTERS

HOW GREEN IS MY PRESIDENT

IN A STRANGE SUPERFUND TWIST, POLLUTERS SAY CLINTON'S CLEANUP PLAN IS "PRO-BUSINESS."

FILING A COSTLY FLIGHT PLAN

THE CITY PAYS UP TO $14 A WORD FOR A CONSULTANT'S REPORT ON STAPLETON.