The Last Stand
Photo archive for August 24, 2008
The new Boulder Ridge subdivision atop a hill overlookng the ski area and most of the valley is scheduled for completion in late October. Prices for the 18 lots begin at $975,000 and go up to $2.39 million.
Many of the lakes in the Mount Zirkel Wilderness Area that lie on the east side of the Continental Divide contain cutthroat trout.
Jim Comeau and Kirk Wolff trek the Continental Divide under a low cloud ceiling.
Soroco senior Tatum Lombardi passes the ball during practice Friday. Lombardi is one of several Rams expected to lead Soroco to a good season.
Joe Dover, a running back for Steamboat Springs High School, runs the ball Friday evening during a scrimmage against Grand Junction.
Quarterback Austin Hinder, back, center, will have plenty of weapons to use this year. Pictured, from left, are Steamboat Springs High School players Nelson Brassell, Alex Wood, Eric Bonner, Fraser Egan, Carl Steele, Joe Dover, Cody Harris and Jasper Gantick.
Soroco junior Cody Miles tries to get a pass before he's tackled by a Vail Christian defender as the Rams scrimmaged Vail in Oak Creek on Friday. Miles returns this season after playing as quarterback for Soroco his first two years of high school.
Soroco sophomore Jacob Hange tries to push his way through a trio of Vail Christian defenders Friday as the Rams played in their first scrimmage of the season. Soroco kicks off its regular season this week against North Park.
The Roan Plateau, north of Rifle, continues to be an epicenter for the energy development debate across Colorado’s Western Slope.
Kathie Cummins, left, and Darlene Swain, of Fort Worth, Texas, check out bags for sale Saturday at the farmers market.
A large drilling rig that produces commercially viable natural gas for Williams Oil sits on BLM land outside Parachute in July 2007. The two candidates for state House District 57 differ on the recent sale of leasing rights for oil and gas drilling on the Roan Plateau near Parachute and Rifle.
Players of South Routt’s women’s softball team pose in Yampa on Wednesday.
Our Delphinus and Sagitta are two of the 88 official constellations; the Coat Hanger is not. Spot all three high in the southeastern sky this week.
South Routt Elementary School first-grader Gene Bracegirdle peaks over his new folders during the first day of school Thursday.
South Routt Elementary School first-grader Chailyn Wrieth uses her new crayons to color on the first day of school.
Hannah Montana backpacks stuck out from the others on the hooks at South Routt Elementary School on the first day of school Thursday.
Framed wall panels are stacked on site and awaiting foundations already under way in the deed-restricted affordable First Tracks housing project at Wildhorse Meadows.
Neil Wiener recently moved to Steamboat Springs from New Jersey to transition the Steamboat Cleaners to using the GreenEarth dry-cleaning technology.
Amalia Ramirez, with Steamboat Cleaners, presses a shirt Wednesday at the Central Park Plaza store.
The new Boulder Ridge subdivision, atop a hill overlooking the ski area and most of the valley, is scheduled for completion in late October. Prices for the 18 lots begin at $975,000 and go up to $2.39 million.
Dead spruce trees killed by the spruce beetle 50 years ago litter the forest floor surrounding John Anarella near Flat Tops Wilderness Area.
A lodgepole pine sapling grows in North Routt County.
Dead lodgepole pines glow in the moonlight in North Routt County.
The sign marking the beginning of the Routt National Forest on Gore Pass is surrounded with beetle-killed trees.
Charlie Cammer built his wife Barb a bookcase out of blue-stain wood.
Charlie Cammer said using the wood to build his barn was part of the grieving process of losing his pines.
The forest surrounding Hahn's Peak in North Routt County will look drastically different after the beetle epidemic.
Aspens are the dominant species at the Red Creek subdivision in North Routt County, which was thinned of many of its mature lodgepole pine trees.
North Routt County resident Charlie Cammer built his home at his wife's request using lodgepole pine.
Colorado State Forest Service forester John Twitchell, left, and North Routt County resident Dave Hessel prepare to survey beetle-infected trees in the Willow Creek Pass subdivision.
John Anarella examines what remains of the spruce trees that were killed during the spruce beetle epidemic in the Flat Tops Wilderness Area 50 years ago.
John Anarella, a Yampa-based wilderness ranger, looks over the Sheriff Reservoir into the Flat Tops Wilderness Area. On the spillway is what Anarella guessed is the remains of a spruce tree that was killed during the spruce beetle epidemic 50 years ago.
The birth of a lodgepole pine stand is under way at Charlie Cammer’s property, where saplings stand just a few inches tall.
North Routt County resident Charlie Cammer looks up the stairs in his home, which he built at his wife’s request using beetle-killed, blue-stain lodgepole pine.
Healthy spruce trees near the Flat Tops Wilderness Area slowly are growing tall enough to reach the tops of the dead spruce, which have remained standing for 50 years because of their strong root systems.
Doug Allen, vice president of mountain operations for Steamboat Ski and Resort Corp., vividly remembers the Oct. 24, 1997, blowdown that ignited the local spruce beetle boom.
Aspens are the dominant species at the Red Creek subdivision in North Routt County, where mature lodgepoles were thinned.
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