national park service
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Meetings scheduled to help plan new National Park Service unit in Colorado
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Anyone interested in one of Colorado’s latest National Park Service additions is invited to a series of upcoming meetings. They have been scheduled ahead of the agency drafting a “foundation document” for Amache National Historic Site, the place on the state’s southeast plains where thousands of Japanese-Americans were imprisoned as part of the government’s “relocation”…
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‘There’s a reckoning in history’: Colorado historians work to preserve Green Book sites
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Painted in black and white, a group of young girls laugh in their swim trunks and caps as they splash around in the cool waters of South Boulder Creek. The year is 1935, and the girls are enjoying the day at a summer camp in the Rockies. The camp, called Camp Nizhoni, is less than…
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Congress considers more leases of historic buildings in national parks
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WASHINGTON – A congressional committee on Monday discussed possibilities for a new approach to reducing the nearly $12 billion maintenance backlog in national parks that has touched Colorado deeply. The House Natural Resources Committee held a hearing to consider a broad expansion of leasing historic buildings in national parks to private entities like businesses. Some…
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Colo. senators meet resistance on historic-site proposals
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WASHINGTON – The enthusiasm of Colorado’s U.S. senators for federally designating more historic sites in the state was not shared by the deputy director of the U.S. National Park Service during a Senate hearing Wednesday. Both Sens. Michael Bennet and Cory Gardner have proposed bills that could commemorate historic events in Colorado. But P. Daniel…
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Official tapped to lead National Park Service’s Colorado office is exiting instead
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The official tapped to take over the National Park Service’s Intermountain regional office in Lakewood is retiring instead of accepting the reassignment. The Jackson Hole News and Guide reports that Lizette Richardson, superintendent of Lake Mead National Recreation Area, was recently asked to lead the regional office, which oversees national parks, monuments and other federal…
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THE PODIUM | Activists mislead the public about oil and gas development near Dunes
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How far does a national park extend past its boundary line? In the case of the Great Sand Dunes National Park, we’re told the boundary stretches past the gate, over a mountain range, and across a valley on the other side. That’s according to anti-fossil fuel activists working to stop oil and natural gas leasing…
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Colorado tradesmen urge Congress to fix up national park system
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Contractors and trade associations that might well do the work are among the groups nationally asking Congress to get serious about fixing up the National Park System. The public request to Congress is part of National Infrastructure Week, which lasts until next Monday. The nation’s parks have amassed a backlog of deferred maintenance that grew…
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Colorado Senate Democrats take a stand on the Great Sand Dunes
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Every Democrat in the Colorado Senate has signed a letter opposing the Trump administration’s proposal to sell off public land for energy development near Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve. But Gov. John Hickenlooper is not joining them in challenging the plan, noting that the parcels involved are on the opposite side of the…
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Colorado senators seek to renew law allowing sales of federal land
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WASHINGTON – Colorado’s U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and Cory Gardner are trying to revive a law intended to protect federal lands in western states they describe as having “conservation value.” The Federal Land Transaction Facilitation Act was a federal law enacted in 2000 that authorized some federal agencies to buy and sell land. The law…
