Colorado Parks and Wildlife offers ice safety tips. At many Colorado Parks and Wildlife Areas, ice has covered the reservoirs and ponds, attracting visitors to go outdoors to ice fish, ice skate, ice sail and enjoy other winter activities on the ice. The winter landscapes beckon and there is plenty of room to roam. To
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FORT COLLINS – Help save landfill space by recycling your Christmas tree instead of throwing it in the trash! This holiday season, residents of Fort Collins and Larimer County will once again have the opportunity to recycle their post-holiday, undecorated Christmas trees. From December 26, 2011, through January 17, 2012, residents will be able to
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FORT COLLINS – Have you ever wanted to be a park ranger? We need your help. You can become a Volunteer Ranger Assistant and help park and natural area rangers accomplish much of their important work. The City of Fort Collins Natural Areas Program and Larimer County’s Department of Natural Resources are now accepting Volunteer
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LAKEWOOD – On January 3, 2012, the City of Lakewood will host the All America City Quilt Exhibit at the Civic Center Atrium in Lakewood. The City of Lakewood has the honor of being one of the 25 finalists who contributed to this project. The Quilt will be on exhibit until January 6th for the
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LITTLETON – Chatfield State Park Hosts a special event each year when Birders, nature enthusiasts and outdoor lovers across the western hemisphere participate in the annual count of all the birds in Colorado. This event started more than a century ago. On Christmas Day in 1900, scientist and writer Chapman and 27 conservationists in 25
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LITTLETON – The non-profit “Friends of Roxborough State Park” have created the Barbara Fritts Scholarship Fund to pay for transporting economically disadvantaged school children, pre-kindergarten through sixth grade, to the park for a special program by a park volunteer naturalist. Fritts was a Roxborough State Park Volunteer Naturalist from 2003-2011. She was devoted to teaching
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FORT COLLINS – The City of Fort Collins Natural Areas Program asks for feedback from visitors and residents every five years through a survey. Results from 2011 show that natural areas are popular and well-liked. Questions focused on respondents’ familiarity with natural areas, their visitation habits, how good/poor of a job the Natural Areas Program
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Fort Collins, CO – In a novel approach to diverting electronic waste from landfill disposal, the City of Fort Collins is partnering with Greenback LLC to collect laptops computers at the Rivendell Recycling Center. The new, bright green collection box, designed with a special slot opening for depositing laptop computers, was recently installed at the
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The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) and Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) are holding a public hearing next week on the future of Interstate 25 through Pueblo. It is being held on Thursday, December 8, from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Pueblo Convention Center, 320 Central Main Street.  A presentation from 6:30 p.m. to
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AURORA, CO. – Cherry Creek State Park will close to boating on Wednesday, November 30th, at 6:00 pm due to the seasonal closure of the aquatic nuisance species (ANS) vessel inspection stations. The reservoir will be closed to both motorized and non-motorized vessels. Cherry Creek Reservoir will reopen for boating on March 1, 2012, weather
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