O Christmas tree
Among the most popular varieties of Christmas tree is a native of the Rocky Mountains: the Colorado blue spruce.
Colorado Postcards
With Colorado Postcards, we share brief insights into Colorado’s people and places, our flora and fauna, and our past and present, from every corner of Colorado.
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Josephine Roche
Colorado’s first policewoman to walk a beat was a social worker. Josephine Roche earned an MSW in 1910 with her thesis “Economic Conditions in Relation to the Delinquency of Girls.”
Pikas
Look around the summit of Colorado’s many high peaks, and you’ll eventually see the pint-sized American pika – a powerfully resilient resident of the highest altitudes.
Pueblo
Before the gold rush, Colorado did have boomtowns. One of the first was ideally situated where the Arkansas River spills onto the Great Plains.
The beaver
There’s only one Colorado rodent that grows to nearly 50 pounds, sees underwater and prefers to spend time next to its own homemade ponds. The beaver.
Eugene Fodor
It’s rare for a classical musician to become a household name, but in the 1970s, that was the case for Denver-born Eugene Fodor.
Turkey vultures
Soaring high overhead, riding spirals of warm air, that broad-winged bird may be an eagle, or a hawk.
Marmot
High in Colorado’s mountains, listen for the call of the whistlepig. Better known as the yellow-bellied marmot, it’s cousin to the groundhog — evolved to live at high altitudes.
