Rocky Mountains

research, I discovered there is quite a bit more to the Rocky Mountains than high altitudes and pretty mountain views. First, I found the Rocky Mountains may not be here much longer. In The Rocky Mountains' Largest Glaciers Are Melting with Little Fanfare, Storrow talks to outdoor education professor Darran Wells, who has watched the glaciers on the mountains’ faces shrink year after year. Within the next one hundred years, all the ice on the mountains may be completely gone. Wells describes in…

bicker in rebellion with each step. I came to a stop as my neck stretched back to examine the enormous mountain that towered over me. As the sun set behind it, an ominous silhouette stared back and cast a shadow over a trail leading into darkness. My friend’s eyes widened in wonder as I commanded, “Hike on!”; the eight of us scaled the Rocky Mountains of New Mexico like a patrol of ants through a rocky backyard. I was an explorer, but rather than searching for the Americas, I was on an…

left shoulder there is tattoo of mountains, pine trees, and five birds leading up to my collar bone. You might ask the meaning, or you might just tell me how much you like it and compliment the artist and ask me where I got it done or ask if I have any others. You might never see a goal as a reason to get a tattoo but Mountains are my goal. My family and I visited the Rocky Mountain National Park the summer after my Junior year in highschool. I had never seen a mountain before besides in…

Name: Christopher.J Disease:Rocky mountain spotted fever Date:12/7 The Rocky mountain spotted fever is a non-communal disease. (Does not spread from person to person). It is more common in the southern eastern states and in the mid-atlantic. It comes from the bite of an infected tick. You can get it in anytime of year as long as it’s warm. It’s most common between April through September. The RMSF (Rocky mountain spotted fever) is carried by the RM wood tick, brown dog tick, and the american…

hiking the Rocky Mountains of Montana with my mom and the other half climbing the Cascade Mountains of Washington State with my dad. I have grown up in two different states because of my parents divorce. However, I don 't have an innate sense of pride for one state but a pride for the two separate and unique mountain ranges that have shaped who I am today. When I am in the free and open space of a forest with the cool summer breeze flowing through my hair and the smell of fresh clean mountain…

In Rocky Mountain Middle School, there are only bathrooms for men and women. We should have gender neutral bathrooms in our school. If we had gender neutral bathrooms in our school, it would make genderqueer (transgender and non-binary) questioning students and feel much safer and better represented in their own school. To begin, many genderqueer students feel unsafe in single gender restrooms, and the psychological effects are damaging. Going into single gender bathrooms can cause anxiety,…

Hannah School lunch Rocky Mountain Middle School’s lunch choices can affect students. Depending on whether or not the school’s food is healthy or not the students may not act accordingly. If students do not eat healthy there health will not be healthy. Although the cost may be outrageous to feed thousands of kids each day, We at Rocky Mountain Middle School have federal assistance. Behavior For my first…

First and foremost, students freedom of speech and expression is crushed when censorship is in the picture. With censorship students are not able to express their emotions and feelings. Take it from an artist who knows what it is like, “My song Rocky Mountain High was banned from many radio stations….This was obviously done by people who have never experienced the elation, celebration of life, or the joy of living that one feels…”(source 2). Students will no longer get that thrilling, one edge…

was one of the many places prospectors and explorers came to in search of riches. Most of these individuals came from out east when they saw the news about all the gold out west. Estes Park is a small mountain town in western Colorado, located in Larimer County. The town is part of the Rocky Mountain National Park, one of the country’s 58 national parks. It is located 22.3 miles west of the town of Lyons via U.S Highway 36. One can also take U.S highway 7 from downtown Lyons for a slightly…

The Rocky Mountain Lions Eye Bank (RMLEB) is a non-profit organization that services Colorado and Wyoming for donation of eyes for transplantation. The organization was established in 1982 with the assistance of the Lions Clubs of Colorado and Wyoming (RMLEB, 2016). The mission of the organization is “to fulfill the wishes of eye donors and their families to help another overcome blindness through transplantation and research” (RMLEB, 2016, p. 1). Besides providing corneal and other eye related…