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Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Theodore Roosevelt
Lesser known Colorado places of interest
When many people plan a visit to Colorado they think of Aspen, Air Force Academy, Denver Mint, and Rocky Mountain National Park. There are many other places to visit depending on a person's interests. This week we leave the mountains and venture out to the Great Plains.
Let your imagination carry you to the wide open spaces of the prairie. Your wagon travels at twelve to fifteen miles a day. No telephone lines, no roads, no cars. At the next place of interest, you can picture yourself back in the time of covered wagons, the Oregon Trail, and wide open prairie.
Pawnee National Grassland
The Pawnee National Grassland covers 193,000 acres in Weld County, 30 miles East of Fort Collins near Greeley, Colorado. The Pawnee Buttes Trail is an excellent way to explore parts of the park. This is a 1.5 mile trail that gives you an opportunity to view the Buttes of Pawnee up close. Climbing on the Buttes is strictly prohibited.
The grassland is filled with many different species of birds, including mourning doves, red-headed woodpeckers, blue jays, black-billed magpies, gray catbirds, vesper sparrows and American crows plus many more. The Pawnee National Grassland is known internationally as a place to see birds of prey. In late March and April you may see Praire Chickens and their mating dance.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Theodore Roosevelt
Lesser known Colorado places of interest
When many people plan a visit to Colorado they think of Aspen, Air Force Academy, Denver Mint, and Rocky Mountain National Park. There are many other places to visit depending on a person's interests. This week we leave the mountains and venture out to the Great Plains.
Let your imagination carry you to the wide open spaces of the prairie. Your wagon travels at twelve to fifteen miles a day. No telephone lines, no roads, no cars. At the next place of interest, you can picture yourself back in the time of covered wagons, the Oregon Trail, and wide open prairie.
Pawnee National Grassland
The Pawnee National Grassland covers 193,000 acres in Weld County, 30 miles East of Fort Collins near Greeley, Colorado. The Pawnee Buttes Trail is an excellent way to explore parts of the park. This is a 1.5 mile trail that gives you an opportunity to view the Buttes of Pawnee up close. Climbing on the Buttes is strictly prohibited.
The grassland is filled with many different species of birds, including mourning doves, red-headed woodpeckers, blue jays, black-billed magpies, gray catbirds, vesper sparrows and American crows plus many more. The Pawnee National Grassland is known internationally as a place to see birds of prey. In late March and April you may see Praire Chickens and their mating dance.
Males display together in a communal lek, where they raise ear-like feathers above their heads, inflate orange sacs on the sides of their throats, and stutter-step around while making a deep hooting moan.
Local News
Weather: This week, Thursday, three homes were destroyed and 12 homes damaged in Northern Colorado by tornadoes. In south-eastern Colorado five homes were damaged by tornadoes near Simla. Numerous cars and trucks were overturned. In Metro Denver, hail covered large areas. One particular block received four four feet of hail. Yes! Four feet of hail. It looked like snow.
Several tornadoes were spotted on Friday, touching down in eastern and south-eastern counties. Meanwhile drenching rain fell for hours over Lyons and Greeley areas. These are places that were flooded in 2013 and are now under flash-flood warnings.
Holmes Trial: James Holmes is on trial, accused of killing 12 people and wounding 70 in the Aurora Theater shooting. This week jurors watched 22 hours of video tapes of psychiatric interviews with Holmes right after the shooting (22 hours broken into segments). In those interviews Holmes said that each kill raised his self-worth. Psychologists are arguing about the difference between insanity and mental illness and how it applies to the legal definition of knowing if an act is illegal ...knowing right from wrong.
Updated Tuesday
The judge's instructions were that the jurors were not to discuss the case with anyone, not even each other,
and if one juror witnessed another breaking that instruction they should inform the judge. One juror did talk to their spouse about the trial in a cell phone call. Two other jurors witnessed the phone call, but did not report it. All three jurors have been excused and alternates are taking their place. The pool of alternates has been reduced to nine.
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Weather: This week, Thursday, three homes were destroyed and 12 homes damaged in Northern Colorado by tornadoes. In south-eastern Colorado five homes were damaged by tornadoes near Simla. Numerous cars and trucks were overturned. In Metro Denver, hail covered large areas. One particular block received four four feet of hail. Yes! Four feet of hail. It looked like snow.
Several tornadoes were spotted on Friday, touching down in eastern and south-eastern counties. Meanwhile drenching rain fell for hours over Lyons and Greeley areas. These are places that were flooded in 2013 and are now under flash-flood warnings.
Holmes Trial: James Holmes is on trial, accused of killing 12 people and wounding 70 in the Aurora Theater shooting. This week jurors watched 22 hours of video tapes of psychiatric interviews with Holmes right after the shooting (22 hours broken into segments). In those interviews Holmes said that each kill raised his self-worth. Psychologists are arguing about the difference between insanity and mental illness and how it applies to the legal definition of knowing if an act is illegal ...knowing right from wrong.
Updated Tuesday
The judge's instructions were that the jurors were not to discuss the case with anyone, not even each other,
and if one juror witnessed another breaking that instruction they should inform the judge. One juror did talk to their spouse about the trial in a cell phone call. Two other jurors witnessed the phone call, but did not report it. All three jurors have been excused and alternates are taking their place. The pool of alternates has been reduced to nine.
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Please use the Comments section below to leave your suggestion, questions, and comments.