The project, which cleaned up mine-tailings in the Milsap Watershed east of Colorado Springs, won the Department of Interior's Cooperative Conservation Award. Ryan Warner speaks with Julie Annear, who managed the project – and with Daniel Mickey, an inmate who worked on it.
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