Column by Hal Walter
Recreation – August 2000 – Colorado Central Magazine
I’VE RECENTLY FACED UP to the fact that I am a “green extremist.” I knew this even before reading the ad placed in a local paper by a motorized recreation coalition urging people to “act now” to stop the “land grab” by people just like me.
Review by Lynda La Rocca
Poetry – August 2000 – Colorado Central Magazine
Bitter Creek Junction – Poetry of the American West
by Linda M. Hasselstrom
Published in 2000 by High Plains Press
ISBN: 0-931271-53-3
Review by Martha Quillen
History – August 2000 – Colorado Central Magazine –
Mountain Scouting – A Handbook For Officers and Soldiers On the Frontiers
by Edward S. Farrow
Originally published in 1881
Published in 2000 by the University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 0-8061-3209-4
Sidebar by Sharon Chickering
Local History – August 2000 – Colorado Central Magazine
Works Consulted
Bamford, Lawrence. “Streets from Silver,” Colorado Heritage. (1987, Issue 4) 2 — 11.
Beebe, Lucius and Charles Clegg. Narrow Gauge in the Rockies.Berkeley, Calif.: Howell-North, 1958.
Article by Sharon Chickering
Local History – August 2000 – Colorado Central Magazine
THE MOURNFUL WAIL of a train whistle only sounds four or five times a day now, and then only during Leadville’s few summer months. Although mineral ores no longer await rail transportation from mine to smelter — and the railroads have all but abandoned the tracks which once crisscrossed this region — Leadville’s 140-year mining legacy still holds a strong grip on the area’s imagination and identity.
Article by Lynda La Rocca
Recreation – August 2000 – Colorado Central Magazine
THANKS TO A DECADE OF WORK by dedicated Lake County citizens, outdoor enthusiasts can now enjoy a Rocky Mountain high via Colorado’s newest, non-motorized trail.
The 12.2-mile-long Mineral Belt Trail, a paved hiking and bicycling path which loops around Leadville and through sections of the city’s historic mining district, officially opens on July 29.
Essay by Ed Quillen
Local Politics – August 2000 – Colorado Central Magazine –
I HALF-EXPECTED A THREE-PIECE SUIT to materialize around me, a phenomenon which would no doubt be followed shortly by a sudden, inexplicable craving to play golf.
But nothing of the sort happened when I signed a blue card and switched my voting registration from Democratic to Republican.
Sidebar by Bob Berwyn
Mushrooms – August 2000 – Colorado Central Magazine
INVARIABLY, if you tell someone you’re interested in mushrooms, they’ll raise an eyebrow and ask if you’ve ever found any of the “funny ones.”
Certain species of mushrooms contain psilocybin and psilocin. These little-understood psychoactive compounds cause intense physical sensations, including disorientation and uncontrollable laughter. They can also cause vivid hallucinations when ingested in sufficient quantities.
Sidebar by Bob Berwyn
Mushrooms – August 2000 – Colorado Central Magazine
A Chanterelle Recipe
If you’ve been fortunate enough to find a patch of chanterelles, be sure to return every year, since they often fruit in the same area again and again.
And be sure not to tell anyone — even your best friend — where it is, since then you’ll have to fight off hordes of people to harvest your bounty.
Sidebar by Bob Berwyn
Mushrooms – August 2000 – Colorado Central Magazine
TELLURIDE
Several Colorado towns use mushroom season as an excuse to hold special events with a focus on fungi. This year Telluride will host the 20th edition of its renowned mushroom fest. The lush spruce, fir, and pine forests that surround the town harbor rich growths of fungi, and the festival attracts some of the world’s leading mycologists.
Sidebar by Bob Berwyn
Mushrooms – August 2000 – Colorado Central Magazine
Mushroom Resources
If you’re interested in exploring the subject and finding edible species, the best way to learn is in the field with an expert. This is very important because if you eat the wrong ones, you may get very sick. and perhaps even die.
Article by Bob Berwyn
Mushrooms – August 2000 – Colorado Central Magazine
WITH NAMES LIKE red raspberry slime, elegant stinkhorn, and stinky squid, what’s not to love about mushrooms?
Letter from Slim Wolfe
Politics – August 2000 – Colorado Central Magazine
Dear Martha and Ed,
Boy, June was sure a bonus. Not only did Martha personally respond to my letter, but the garden came in strong, I quit my non-profit job to have more time to go broke as a crafter, and this year’s first batch of homebrew exploded out in the well-shed, sounding like a war zone and making a mess of shards.
Letter from W. Bruce Gillis
Colorado Central – August 2000 – Colorado Central Magazine
Ed and Martha:
My check for $20 is enclosed. I bet if you knocked off a buck or two for a second year, you’d get a bunch of longer term subscribers. A lot of other magazines do it, and it does save writing a check and remembering next year.
Letter from Jim Little
Orthography – August 2000 – Colorado Central Magazine
Dear Ed:
This [July 4] is a working holiday, but I took a moment over an editor’s lunch of whiskey and cigars to peruse your July edition. (So far, I’ve made it only to page 4.)
Letter from Lindell Cline
Economics – August 2000 – Colorado Central Magazine
Editors:
I generally agree with most of Martha Quillen’s editorials. A good deal more often than with Ed’s. As is the case with most people, I am probably too slow to let people know when I agree with them and too quick to let them know when I disagree. Nevertheless, I feel compelled to respond to Martha’s July opinion that: “The simplest solution to most of our current problems is to increase the income tax on corporations and the very wealthy”.
Article by Ed Quillen
Local Artists – August 2000 – Colorado Central Magazine
YOU MAY WELL HAVE seen her art, but not in a gallery. Gloria Brown is a commercial artist whose designs and illustrations have graced everything from cookbooks and compact disks to nature guides and medical texts.
Article by Marcia Darnell
Western Resources – August 2000 – Colorado Central Magazine
WHEN ED QUILLEN ASKED ME to cover the Western Land Use and Agricultural Forum in Monte Vista on June 24, I hesitated. The idea of spending a whole day listening to speeches was less than thrilling, and immersion in a group of cattlemen sounded dangerous. They can probably smell a vegetarian from 20 paces away.
Brief by Central Staff
Recreation – August 2000 – Colorado Central Magazine
Fairplay is nearly two miles above the tides, so it’s not an obvious spot for a beach — but there’s the FAIRPLAY BEACH sign on U.S. 285, and if you turn off there, more signs will lead you a couple of miles to some sand and water tucked into a big ravine behind Front Street.
It’s a small lake, along with trails, picnic tables and fishing sites, along the Middle Fork of the South Platte River.
Brief by Central Staff
Local History – August 2000 – Colorado Central Magazine
One of Chaffee County’s most direct links with its past was severed on July 8 when the heirs sold the 448-acre Nachtrieb ranch at auction for $1.7 million.
The heirs — Joe, Chris, and Dan Nachtrieb — all have other careers, and decided to sell the family ranch. They are the great-grandsons of Charles Nachtrieb, a Denver storekeeper who ventured to California Gulch with goldseekers in 1860.
Brief by Hal Walter
Pack-Burro Racing – August 2000 – Colorado Central Magazine
Pack-burro racing is still a full-contact sport — the first serious injury in several years in Central Colorado’s only indigenous sport was reported this year.
Rob Pedretti of Cañon City received a collapsed lung when his burro Samaritan kicked him in the chest about halfway through the Central City Pack-Burro Race in mid-June. Pedretti, a renowned hunting outfitter, also lost his glasses from the impact, but somehow regained his form to finish 2nd in the race. After spitting up some blood at the finish line, he was taken to a Denver-area hospital for three days of treatment.
Brief by Marcia Darnell
San Luis Valley – August 2000 – Colorado Central Magazine
Bigger Birdhouse …
The Monte Vista Wildlife Refuge, seasonal home to cranes and other birds, may grow by 465 acres. The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service hopes to purchase three quarter-sections of the Parma Ranch, which borders the refuge. The price is about $500,000.
Essay by Lou Bendrick
Spirituality – August 2000 – Colorado Central Magazine
I’VE ALWAYS BEEN THE GUILTY TYPE. This guilt is why I’m unable to retain an open mind when it comes to my town’s latest craze: Native American spirituality, known widely as the Born-Again Navajo movement. (Okay, I just made that term up).
Review by Allen Best
Snowslides – August 2000 – Colorado Central Magazine
Historic Avalanches in the Northern Front Range and the Central and Northern Mountains of Colorado
By M. Martinelli Jr. and Charles F. Leaf
Published in 1999 by U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service
Technical Report RMRS-GTR-38
Free, 270 pages
No ISBN
RECREATIONAL INSTREAM FLOW WATER RIGHTS
At the last Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB) meeting, there was a discussion about the recent trends by municipalities to appropriate water rights for boating and/or piscatorial purposes. The staff of the CWCB seems to be concerned that a spate of boat chute construction will be followed by a similar number of instream flow water right applications. Since the CWCB has exclusive authority to hold instream flows for the protection of the environment, the Board held a policy discussion as to whether recreational rights might be a “threat” to that authority.
