four corners
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ELLEN ROBERTS | Resource stewardship, fiscal prudence and independent thinking
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COMMENTARY: This is part of our series of contributed essays, “Imagine a Great Colorado.” See below for more. My great-grandparents homesteaded near Grover, as far in the northeast corner of the state as you can be and still be in Colorado, in the late 1800s. I eventually landed in Durango, in the southwest corner of…
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Ute Council Tree, two centuries old, cedes its place in Western Colorado lore
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On road trips through western Colorado, Ute leader Regina Lopez-Whiteskunk’s family would stop to pay their respects to a cottonwood believed to be more than 200 years old. Their ancestors once gathered in its shade to discuss tribal business. So when Lopez-Whiteskunk heard the Ute Council Tree had been deemed dangerously weakened by age, she…
