Colorado

The Grand Canyon, as it exists today, is an enormous, 277 mile-long trench carved through the landscape of Arizona by the Colorado River. It reached depths of up to 1 mile, and is as wide as 15 miles in some places. The Grand Canyon was created through the geographical changes brought about by the Laramide Orogeny, a seismic event that occurred approximately 70 million years ago and caused the formation of the Rocky Mountains. Later, around 18 million years ago, the Basin and Range Province was…

say Friday to early Monday morning. After that we had a few hours of just crying baby and switching radio stations to find music to listen to. Then all of a sudden we start to come up on a bridge and my dad said that the water underneath it was the Colorado River. He also said that once we pass the bride we will be in Arizona. As soon as we passed my mom realized that we needed gas so we found a gas station and went inside to use to restroom because we still had a long way to…

Joe falconer once said “Basically,we all love Colorado. It's all about camaraderie and telling a lie about how big a cliff you jumped off of.” Colorado is different from Amarillo because in Colorado there are mountains,the schools have districts depending on where you live by,and by the weather. In Colorado the mountains are very high up and many people enjoy living on them. There are many things you could do. If you live up there then u could go see the waterfalls. Also,there are…

The Grand Canyon is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in the state of Arizona in the United States. It is contained within and managed by Grand Canyon National Park, the Kaibab National Forest, Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument, the Hualapai Tribal Nation, the Havasupai people and the Navajo Nation. President Theodore Roosevelt was a major proponent of preservation of the Grand Canyon area, and visited it on numerous occasions to hunt and enjoy the scenery. The Grand…

Is Colorado suffering from too many food deserts, and what is the government’s role in combating the issue of fresh food availability in local communities? I'm researching Colorado food deserts to better understand how the State of Colorado addresses the communities that lack access to fresh food. As I don’t know much about the government’s stance on sustaining fresh food, this topic could potentially affect my ability to access ample nutrition. I've often heard friends comment on the dense fast…

Water, the most essential nutrient for life. Without it the most basic lifeforms couldn’t exist, much less humans. For citizens of Fountain Colorado it’s imperative that we begin to find solutions for the tragedy that has plagued this region of Colorado. There isn’t a definitive reason for the water crisis that has recently struck Fountain Colorado, but there’s plenty of finger pointing from all parties involved such as health departments, local military, utility companies and even city…

The Colorado Coal strikes was basically labor uprising in Colorado between 1913 or 1914. This war basically is Southern Colorado coal war. In this war miner's demands was same as west Virginia: an eight hour day, improved wages, eradication of the guard system, the freedom to organize, and union recognition, and John Davidson Rockefeller, Jr., Who had large stake in the mines, refused to even acknowledge the union. and the second strike was in Detroit. The young women in Detroit Woolworth 's…

The river might be a lot of help for Colorado like the water can be used for electricity but it could be harmful to the wildlife animals around the river dam. It would be sad if you killed millions of animals just for electricity but it save a lot of many. The river could also knock the trees down because they are very small and there are many animals that live on those trees. The river could overflow to the cities in Colorado and flood them, causing lots of damage to the civilians and their…

would go with my father’s mom because church was only an hour and a half. I was baptized Baptist but because of the long service, I became Methodist. I still truly wasn’t fully understanding who God was and how important he would be in my life. Colorado upon completing Basic Training and A.I.T. In June of 1991, I married my high school sweetheart and I really wanted to become…

During the first half of the twentieth century, the Colorado mountains became home to a handful of women who had fled the trappings of their former societies in hopes of refuge and adventure. One such woman was Virginia Donaghe McClurg, who became the first white woman to visit Mesa Verde and in later years would become immensely involved in the Colorado Cliff Dwellings Association, which fought to make the site a national park. Also an active member of this committee was Lucy Peabody, who,…