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HIGH AND DRY: Colorado in Drought | State’s residents have coped with extreme dryness for generations
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In the first part of our series, we explore the history of The Dry, a Black community in southeast Colorado undone by drought. Check back Wednesday, March 3, 2021 for part 2. (Video by Skyler Ballard) When Rolan Dixon arrived with her family on the high plains of Colorado in 1916, the landscape in its…
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HIGH & DRY | Colorado in Drought: Part 1, The Past
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In the first part of our series, we explore the history of The Dry, a Black community in southeast Colorado undone by drought. Check back Wednesday, March 3, 2021 for part 2. (Video by Skyler Ballard)
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High and Dry: Colorado in Drought – Part I, The Past
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The severe drought that swept through Colorado in 2020 leaving the prairies cracked and dusty and the forests tinder dry ahead of the state’s largest wildfires could be a harbinger of what the future will hold. However, in the arid Southwest, it’s not the first time that such challenges have wrecked lives and livelihoods. In…