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Sept. 1, 2021: On the Road In Durango, The Four Corners

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Apples yet to be picked at Montezuma Orchard up the McElmo Canyon west of Cortez on Monday, August 30, 2021.

Heritage orchards in McElmo Canyon are growing and preserving Colorado's apple history. Then, Fort Lewis College in Durango reckons with a history that includes a boarding school that forced Native children to assimilate to Eurocentric culture. Also, the author of "Sagebrush Empire" on public lands. And from “The Kitchen Shelf” in Animas City: cookies!