Steamboat Springs' No. 3 singles player, Shelby Reed, returns a volley during the 2007 4A State High School Tennis Tournament at Pueblo City Park. Reed lost to Niwot's Allyson Lee in Saturday's match and finished fourth for the second year in a row.
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Steamboat Springs' No. 2 singles player Breanne Murray reacts after losing a match to Cheyenne Mountain's Mary Russell. Russell went on to win the match and claim the title at the 2007 4A State Finals in Pueblo.
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Steamboat Springs senior Breanne Murray returns a shot during Satuday's state championship match at No. 2 singles. Murray won the first set, but fell to Cheyenne Mountain's Mary Russell in the match.
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Steamboat Springs' No. 2 singles player, Breanne Murray, celebrates after winning a game point in Saturday's match against Cheyenne Mountain's Mary Russell. Russell won the match, and claimed the title at the 2007 4A State Finals in Pueblo.
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Steamboat Springs' No. 1 singles player, Lisa Floyd, returns a volley during Saturday's 2007 4A Girls State High School Tennis tournament. Floyd finished fourth after falling to Fountain Valley's Clarke Tatje in the match.
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Steamboat Springs senior Breanne Murray returns a shot during Satuday's state championship match at No. 2 singles. Murray won the first set, but fell to Cheyenne Mountain's Mary Russell in the match.
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Steamboat track athlete Westin Cofer hurls the shot put during the regional meet held in Grand Junction on Saturday. Although Cofer failed to qualify in the shot put, he did qualify for a trip to the state track meet in Denver next weekend to compete in the discus throw.
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A glimpse of the fragile ecology of the Vermillion Basin at the entrance to Vermillion Canyon.
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Soroco relay runner Sarajane Rossi, right, crosses the finish line several meters ahead of the nearest competitor during the 4-by-200 relay race held during the regional track meet in Grand Junction on Saturday. The Sailors' first-place finish qualifies them for a spot in the upcoming state meet in Pueblo next weekend.
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Craig's Mike Crackel leads David Moulton out of Vermillion Canyon and back onto the 77,000 acres of BLM public lands in the Vermillion Basin whose wilderness characteristics have interim protection from development, but could change with the Resource Management Plan's current revision.
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Hayden sprinter Jake Walker lunges across the finish line during the 100-meter dash at the regional track meet held in Grand Junction on Saturday. Walker finished second in the race, earning a spot in the state meet in Pueblo next weekend.
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Steamboat's David Moulton goes for a mandatory swim to continue hiking up a remote canyon carved by Vermillion Creek.
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Republican state Sen. Jack Taylor of Steamboat Springs, left, shares a laugh with Colorado Republican Party Chairman Dick Wadhams on Saturday at the Old Town Pub & Restaurant on Lincoln Avenue. Wadhams and Colorado Secretary of State Mike Coffman were the keynote speakers for the Routt County Republicans' Lincoln Day Dinner, the largest annual fundraiser for the county GOP.
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A view of Vermillion Creek that stretches from public BLM lands into private property before crossing Moffat County Road 318.
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Anne Davidson, left, and her roommate, Cassandra Novotne, prepare their first dinner in their new home in Steamboat Springs on Thursday evening. Davidson, a severe needs teacher at Strawberry Park Elementary School, bought the deed-restricted condominium after years of renting apartments. Some business leaders say there aren't enough affordable homes, such as those in Fox Creek Village, for their workers.
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Vermillion Creek flows through Northwest Colorado in Moffat County near the Wyoming state line.
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Keenan Kulma works on an individual research project on a computer at the Yampa Valley High School in Steamboat Springs on Wednesday. Kulma is one of several students who opted to attend the new alternative high school this year.
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Indian paintbrush pokes out at the serene entrance to Vermillion Canyon.
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Jewel Almeida, from left, Stephen Maire, Robert Anderson, Karla Setter and PJ Zenewicz discuss the equipment needs for their upcoming camping trip in their classroom at Yampa Valley High School on Wednesday. Setter and Zenewicz are two of the instructors for the alternative high school.
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Sophomore Cole Breland researches trails for his class to hike during class at the Yampa Valley High School in Steamboat Springs on Wednesday. Breland was one of several students who opted to attend the new alternative school this year.
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Soroco Middle School eighth-grader Charell Ondrejka works on a ladder during a community service day for the students in Oak Creek on Tuesday. Ondrejka and three other students were helping to repaint the white trim on the home of the Turon family.
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Ashleigh Poteet, an eighth-grader at Soroco Middle School, helps distribute new sand covering evenly over the Decker Park playground in Oak Creek on Tuesday. Soroco students spent the day working as part of the global AmeriCorps Youth Service Day.
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Lowell Whiteman students wait for their homestay parents while in Peru. The students were placed with families during their four-week stay in Peru.
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Lowell Whiteman senior Alex Levin pets a cheetah with Sotho men at The Savannah Cheetah Foundation in South Africa.
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Native Russian Even people perform a reindeer herders dance for Lowell Whiteman students who visited Russia in April.
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Students and staff at The Lowell Whiteman School pose before their annual foreign trip in April. This year, students went to Vietnam, Peru, Bolivia, South Africa and Africa. They were gone April 6 until early May.
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Heidi Nunnikhoven, left, and her youngest daughter Marieke enjoy a conversation with Heidi's parents Bill and Marie Bowes in the living room of their home in Steamboat Springs on Wednesday. Nunnikhoven and her family moved in with the elderly couple recently to help provide care and support.
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Bill Bowes watches over his napping wife Marie, not pictured, in the living room window of their home in Steamboat Springs on Wednesday. Bowes and his wife Marie have lived in Steamboat since the 1960s but have recently been joined in their home by their daughter, Heidi Nunnikhoven, not pictured, and her family who helps care for the elderly couple.
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Bill Bowes, right, watches over his wife Marie, left, in the living room of their home in Steamboat Springs on Wednesday. Bowes and his wife Marie (not pictured) have lived in Steamboat since the 1960s but have recently been joined in their home by their daughter, Heidi Nunnikhoven, not pictured, and her family who help care for the elderly couple.
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Bill Bowes, left, enjoys the view from the living room window of his home in Steamboat Springs on Wednesday. Bowes and his wife Marie (not pictured) have lived in Steamboat since the 1960s but have recently been joined in their home by their daughter, Heidi Nunnikhoven, right, and her family who helps care for the elderly couple.
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Marabou ranch manager Chad Bedell talks with visitors about efforts to reinvigorate old hay fields on benches overlooking the Elk River.
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Marabou river keeper Pat Stefanek explains to a visiting group from Economic Summit 2007 on Thursday how the project's developers have spent almost two years on efforts to improve trout habitat.
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John Skovgaard, president of Thermalogic, explains his company's main product, spray foam insulation made with soy bean oil instead of petroleum, to a participant in the annual Economic Summit held at the Steamboat Grand Hotel on Thursday.
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