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HD reprieve, CO Ds want BLM HQ in GJ, land reclamation art, and more

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Jonathan P. Thompson
Feb 08, 2021
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On satellite maps, the scrub oak and ponderosa pine-covered slopes of the HD Mountains resemble an island, rising up from a sea of pastures and alfalfa fields and oil and gas wellpads on Southern Ute land in southwestern Colorado. Boasting a 25,000-acre roadless area—and lacking the traits that attract the adrenalin junkies and fitness freaks ubiquitous…

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