Scout Edmondson
Colorado's wolf reintroduction has become so emotional, so political, that it's no longer even about the wolves.
Cover photo courtesy of Colorado Parks and Wildlife. Wolf 2306-OR runs into the wild after being released by CPW on Dec.19, 2023.
Grand County is a land of wide open skies, snowy mountains that hunch against the biting wind blowing off the plains of Wyoming, and miles and miles of prairie, pine forests and meandering trout streams. It’s home to the headwaters of the Colorado River, massive herds of elk and pronghorn, and some 15,000 people who live in and around the string of...
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Julian Zastrocky
Mountain Middle School capitalizes on the "empty" space behind Animas High School.
Fort Lewis College approved Mountain Middle School's request to build a new building next to the recently built Animas High School location. It approved a 420 million dollar budget to help with the building process.
Tom Stritikus, president of Fort Lewis College, is slated to release an email tomorrow announcing the decision formally to the student population.
“We are so happy with how our students reacted to the opening of Animas High School on campus,” Stritikus...
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Anja Tabor
What it takes to get a dinosaur to Fort Lewis College
A dinosaur skeleton cast and cousin of the Tyrannosaurus rex moves onto campus from the Bisti Wilderness Area in New Mexico, also known as the Bisti Badlands.
The fossil is being loaned to the college for undergraduate research this semester, professor of geosciences, Gary Gianniny said. But how is the cast coming to Fort Lewis College?
The most recent discovery of the dinosaur was found on the reservation by a Navajo man, and it is the most complete specimen found of the...
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AJ Repinski
Contestants test their pain limit for Snowdown glory.
Contestants and spectators pack into 11th Street Station’s “Screaming Rubber Band Chickens” Snowdown event at 4:30 p.m. on Feb. 2.
11th Street Owner Marcos Wisner prepares a tournament-style bracket for the event. Randomly drawn for the bracket after entering, contestants prepared themselves for several rounds of rubber band slaps all across the body.
Contestants take turns trying to slap their partner as much as...
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AJ Repinski
During the first ASFLC meeting of the spring semester, several important agenda items were viewed.
During the first meeting of the 2024 spring semester, the Associated Students of Fort Lewis College viewed several key agenda items.
During the meeting, two resolutions successfully passed.
First, the proposed Financial Allocation Board Bylaw Amendments were approved. The new bylaws state RSO II’s wishing to become RSO III’s no longer need to apply solely in the fall semester, but can now apply year round.
Matthew Miller, the Financial Allocation Board...
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