Article by Jeanne Englert
Ute Language – August 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
Editor’s Note: As this article will explain, the Southern Ute language, as currently written, employs many letters that are not in the standard computer character set. Until we can figure out how to display them in HTML (we used an equation editor when setting the article into type for the magazine), we present them here the way they would be if HTML had the characters.
Article by Chas S. Clifton
Wildlife – August 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
The fluffy young owl made its begging call, something between a rising whistle and a puppy’s whine. Its plumage was a combination of a hatchling’s down and more mature feathers — it could fly, but it was not likely to go far, and if it did fly, I could follow it on foot up the ravine through the gloomy, deep-forest light.
Essay by Gary Norton
Constitution – July 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
As a former teacher of American history, I apologize to the students I put through the torture of retaking tests on the Constitution and Bill of Rights until they could earn an 82% or higher grade. A rebellious student was right (and I, the teacher, was wrong), when he declared that it was pointless to learn our rights when those rights existed only on paper and not in the real world of the modern United States.
Review by Ed Quillen
Transportation – July 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
The Colorado Pass Book: A Guide to Colorado’s Backroad Mountain Passes
by Don Koch
Second edition
Paperback edition published in 1992 by Pruett
ISBN 0871088797
Review by Ed Quillen
Local History – July 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
I Remember Tin Cup
by Eleanor Perry
ISBN 0-939101-00-9
Review by Steve Voynick
Mining – July 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
Fire in the Hole: The Untold Story of Hardrock Miners
by Jerry Dolph
Washington State University Press
ISBN 0-87422-108-0
Review by Ed Quillen
Local History – July 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
Where the Bodies Are: In Central Chaffee County, Colorado
by June Shaputis
Published in 1995
No ISBN
Sidebar by Marcia Darnell
Nature Conservancy – July 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
Ownership isn’t always practical. Sometimes holding land can tie up resources better spent elsewhere. For that reason, the Nature Conservancy takes several avenues to preserving land and rare species.
Article by Marcia Darnell
Land Use – July 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
Ah, summer. When a hiker’s fancy turns to untrampled land, unusual plants, and a vista free of condo developments.
The Nature Conservancy holds four such areas in central Colorado: High Creek Fen Preserve, Mishak Lakes, Mexican Cut Preserve, and Hoosier Ridge Preserve.
Article by Ed Quillen
Geography – July 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
Since the Rocky Mountains trend along a north-south line, the major passes across the ranges naturally run east and west: Trout Creek, Cottonwood, Independence, La Veta, Cochetopa, Monarch. A north-south pass like Poncha is an exception in this crowd.
Article by Clint Driscoll
Arkansas River Forum – July 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
Attending the second annual Upper Arkansas Watershed Forum in Cañon City April 19 and 20 felt like riding a raft down the river during spring run-off. There were as many differing opinions and expectations among the participants as there are rocks and whirlpools in the Numbers. If you weren’t paying attention while making small talk during breaks and meals, you would find yourself floundering between a wake of property-rights proponents and an eddy of no-growth wilderness advocates.
Brief by Central Staff
Rural Life – July 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
No Secrets
To demonstrate that keeping anything secret in a small town is nearly impossible, we present a portion of a letter that appeared in the May 25 edition of the Wet Mountain Tribune:
Letter from Clay Warren
Local law – July 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
Editor:
I don’t know if it was the “growth” piece in your issue No. 16 that got me primed, but the Mountain Mail editorial of June 8, about how it’s not too late to Plan, was the last straw. I guess it’s fitting that the publisher of the Mail lives in Poncha Springs, the most government over-controlled town in the valley, because seeking wisdom from some planner from Kansas is like asking a monkey about physics. He knows nothing, but count on him to have an opinion anyway.
Letter from Bill Epler
Mining – July 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
Dear Ed,
As you will readily understand, we found the story on the Sweet Home crystals fascinating. A fabulous story very well told.
Letter from Myrna Schrader
Environment – July 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
Dear Ed & Martha:
I am so glad that you printed those three articles on the plight of the Fourteeners [in the May edition], or more aptly, the pathetic state of the crowds who are addicted to them. For many years, all kinds of people have suggested that I emphasize the Fourteeners on my maps, whereas my aim has been just the opposite: to make them as obscure as possible.
Letter from Eugene Lorig
Growth – July 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
Editors:
I read somewhere that people were happier during the Great Depression than in subsequent prosperity. Things were rough, but most of us had enough to eat, and there was a community of feeling we don’t have any more, at least around here.
Article by Lynda La Rocca
Local Events – July 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
Leadville’s Oro City festival is back this year, although in a form that living-history purists may neither recognize nor embrace.
