Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...closed to women and I was irate at that, but I made an individual response. I disguised myself up as a boy, got my friends to sneak me in, and studied there for a night," recalls Margit Johansson '61, a research associate in Womens Studies at the University of Colorado. "My feelings were there, but there was no women's movement to back...
Some former Radcliffe students say they felt vaguely dissatisfied, but "we weren't conscious of a national pattern," says Myra Lakoff Rich '61, now a history professor at Colorado...
Richard Marks, 50, the superintendent of Grand Canyon National Park, stepped aboard a 19-ft. Boston Whaler last month to hear it for himself. Skimming eastward across the azure expanses of Lake Mead, Marks and two park rangers maneuvered their craft into the lower reaches of the Colorado River. Soon the majestic red walls of the Grand Canyon towered overhead. They cut the engine, grounded the boat on a sandbar and waited quietly...
Each fall, thousands of sightseers flock to Colorado's national forests to witness a spectacular display. As the days become colder, the small, oval leaves of the trembling aspen tree (Populus tremuloides) turn from green to bright gold, and stands of foliage glow in the mountains like mounds of Spanish doubloons. This spring, however, other, less aesthetically inclined aspen lovers have their eyes on the forests -- and their minds on real gold...
Forest rangers estimate that about 40 separate teams of treenapers are operating a $15 million-a-year black market in Colorado's renowned aspens. After the winter's last snowfall, but while the aspens are still dormant, the bandits uproot them and sell them to nurseries and landscapers for between $10 and $15 apiece, or door to door for up to $45. An industrious team can harvest as many as 30,000 saplings in a season. Who wants them? Says Forest Service Spokesman Hank Deutsch: "I guess a clump of aspen is a desirable attraction for people's yards...