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Ty's Take The bear wandering into Creede and the fishing closures on the Rio Grande are telling the same story this summer, and it's one that runs straight through our valley. When wildlife gets hungry enough to push into town and water managers start asking folks
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Ty's Take Fire season's starting early up in the high country, and that Schrader Creek burn on the Rio Grande National Forest near Del Norte is a reminder that we're one dry spring away from real trouble. Nine acres isn't catastrophic yet,
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Ty's Take The primary results are in, the forest service is coming to talk about winter use up in the high country, and down in La Sierra the fence question that's been chewing on neighbors for two years finally has some wildlife data to work with.
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Ty's Take The Golden Circle of Champions event on Saturday was the kind of thing that reminds you why these small towns hold together when everything else seems to be coming apart. Meanwhile, down in Creede they're dealing with a yearling bear pushed into town by
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Ty's Take Fire season's here already, and the Schrader Creek burn near Del Norte is a reminder that these high valleys don't get much of a grace period once the weather turns dry. Nine acres on the Rio Grande National Forest isn't
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Ty's Take The fence that's been dividing neighbors and wildlife biologists up in La Sierra for the better part of a year finally has some science behind it, and that's both good news and the kind of news that doesn't settle much
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Ty's Take Primary day came and went quiet down here in Conejos County, the way it usually does when the real fight hasn't started yet. These preliminary numbers out this morning won't mean much come November, but they do tell you something about who
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Ty's Take When a high-speed chase winds up in your county and ends with the tactical team rolling out, it's worth asking what was driving it. The Alamosa man who got arrested Saturday gave folks plenty of reason to pay attention, and the Conejos County
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Ty's Take Fire season's arriving early in the high country again, and the Schrader Creek burn near Del Norte is a reminder that these late springs don't mean we're out of the woods. Nine acres doesn't sound like much until
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Ty's Take The Rio Grande National Forest is coming to Del Norte next month to talk winter recreation, which means somebody up the valley chain finally figured out that what happens on that high ground affects water, access, and how the rest of us use the land come
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Ty's Take Primary elections come and go in counties like ours, and most folks don't think much about the preliminary results until the general rolls around in the fall. But these numbers matter now because they tell us who's got momentum heading into the
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Ty's Take Rough week down the valley if you're keeping score. A high-speed chase that ended with law enforcement making an arrest in the county, a hungry yearling bear pushing into Creede because the drought's squeezing everything out of the high country, and