Charlie Leech and two other Steamboat Springs teachers participate in a Project WILD education course.
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Jerad Schlegel was a top competitor in Little Britches, high school and college rodeos before last year deciding to try and make a living riding bucking horses. There's a good living to be made for the top bareback riders, he said, and he's focusing this year on making the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo in December in Las Vegas. In order to qualify, he needs to finish the season as one of the top-15 bareback riders in the PRCA standings. He currently ranks 17th.
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Jerad Schlegel, 22, hangs on with everything he's got at a Steamboat Springs Pro Rodeo Series bareback riding competition in June. Schlegel, already a two-time season bareback champion at the Steamboat rodeo, is now traveling the country hoping to make the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo later this year in Las Vegas.
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Steamboat Springs High School biology teacher Charlie Leech instructs younger students in a buddy program. Leech has gone through several courses with Elaine Sturges, who is holding another Project WILD teacher education course Aug. 13 and 14.
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Larry Handing, of Steamboat Springs, left, stands with his sister, Christine Srock, and nephew Ryan Regensburger after winning first place in an Irish road bowling competition last month at the Morgan County Fair in West Virginia. It took the trio 34 tosses to hurl a small cannonball down two miles of rural roads in the area.
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Kris Cannon gives Kelly Boniface a fresh water bottle Saturday at the Rio Stampede mountain bike race in Steamboat Springs. Cannon had three different drinks ready for Boniface's short pit stop: a bottle of water, coconut water and a sports drink.
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Essam Welch of Steamboat Springs rides in the Rio Stampede race Saturday at the Steamboat Ski Area. Welch competed in the race solo with a single-speed bike.
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The South Routt Early Learning Center recently was finished. Classes start Sept. 2.
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Lisa Constine will teach part time at the newly finished South Routt Early Learning Center. Classes start Sept. 2.
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Summer Laws has been the executive director of Integrated Community for 3 1/2 years. Her last day on the job is Aug. 22. Tatiana Achcar will take over as executive director in September.
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Cancer survivors, from left, Sandy Jenny, Jason Sear, Bev Engel and Keith Leifer participate Friday in the Survivor Walk during the American Cancer Society Relay For Life at the Steamboat Springs High School.
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Jackie Grimaldi holds up another piece she is entering in this year's fair.
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Jackie Grimaldi talks about a quilt she entered in a past Routt County Fair.
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Grimaldi stands in front of a quilt she is entering in this year's Routt County Fair.
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Employee housing in the Iron Horse Inn is situated close to the Yampa River Core Trail.
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The city of Steamboat Springs has continued to honor existing reservations for short-term rentals at the Iron Horse Inn this summer. Beginning in the fall, a management company will rent it for employee housing only.
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The summer construction season in Steamboat Springs has been busy, but only a few new projects have broken ground in the city limits during the first seven months of the year. The most visible projects broke ground in 2007.
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A wildlife worker holds a Columbian sharp-tailed grouse at Twentymile Coal Co.
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A Division of Wildlife worker sets traps for the Columbian sharp-tailed grouse on Twentymile Coal Co.'s property. They had so many of the birds on the property that the mine worked with DOW to capture some and move them to other locations with waning populations.
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Barb and Kenny Porteous plan to open the 10th Street Barber Shop in The Victoria building this fall.
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Barb and Kenny Porteous plan to open the 10th Street Barber Shop in The Victoria building this fall.
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When open, the Rocky Mountain Pellet Co. in Walden will have the ability to produce 150,000 tons of pellets a year.
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Jerry Heggie with his 20-year-old nephew, Beau, at a logging site.
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Beau Heggie, with Heggie Logging, uses a harvester to cut down a lodgepole pine.
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The timber sale contract in Jerry Heggie's truck outlines the details and requirements of the logging operation.
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James Tirrul-Jones, the museum curator at Prince George Railway and Forestry Museum in British Columbia, discusses the pine beetle exhibit.
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Steve Yanoski, right, and Dan Juba, with Scribeline Timberworks Inc. in Steamboat Springs, place a beam on a structure they were building in West End Village subdivision.
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Steve Yanoski, with Scribeline Timberworks Inc. in Steamboat Springs, brushes wood shavings from a structure built in West End Village subdivision.
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Doug Allen, vice president of mountain operations for Steamboat Ski & Resort Corp., says the beetle epidemic, while devastating, gives the ski area an opportunity to create some beginner terrain near the base of the mountain.
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Steve Yanoski, with Scribeline Timberworks Inc. in Steamboat Springs, constructs a structure made out of lodgepole pine at a picnic area in West End Village subdivision.
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Williams Lake, British Columbia, resident Colin Rolston says in addition to making products and keeping people working, increased logging would create natural breaks in the forest to protect against the wildfire dangers.
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Directly across from the Prince George Railway and Forestry Museum in British Columbia is a lumber mill.
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A machine cuts the limbs off lodgepole pines at Snow Mountain Ranch near Granby.
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Realtor Elwin Crabtree, a 40-year veteran of the Grand County market, said the beetle initially had a negative impact on the market but that it rebounded shortly thereafter.
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Phelps Lane, with Kremmling-based wood pellet mill Confluence Energy, stands in a pile of wood chips that will be turned into pellets.
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Snow Mountain Ranch grounds foreman John Carmichael surveys a logging site at the YMCA camp.
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A log truck pulls out of YMCA of the Rockies' Snow Mountain Ranch near Granby, which was devastated by the pine beetle.
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John Redmond holds the wood pellets used in the wood-pellet boilers he sells for Danish Company TARM USA. The pellets can be made from the scrap material that is created by many area saw mills that are busy processing trees killed by beetles.
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Joe Bonn is hoping customers will think the trademark blue stain left behind by beetles adds to the value of the lumber he mills at his small plant in Steamboat Springs. Bonn is using beetle-killed lumber to build homes.
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This large tree was killed by beetles and harvested from a nearby forest. The beetles bore into the wood to lay their eggs. A fungus kills the trees and leaves a unique blue-tinted stain behind.
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Logs at J Bonn Wood Products wait to be processed. The small mill, located in Steamboat Springs, uses beetle-killed trees from the Steamboat area to make a number of different products used in building homes.
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Joe Bonn, owner of J Bonn Wood Products, is processing and using trees killed by beetles in his Steamboat Springs business. He says the trees killed by the beetle epidemic have a unique look that can add character to any home.
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Billy Oerding talks about the operation of the More Lumber mill located in Milner. Oerding and his partners opened the mill to process the growing number of trees being cut down because of the beetle epidemic in Colorado forests.
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Logs wait to be milled at the More Lumber company near Milner. The owners say they are hoping to capitalize on the bark beetle epidemic by processing the lumber that is being cleared from nearby forests.
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Heavy equipment moves recently cut trees at the More Lumber company near Milner. The owners say they are hoping to capitalize on the bark beetle epidemic by clearing, and putting the dead trees to a productive use. They say there will be more dead trees in the nearby forest than they can process at the plant.
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Billy Oerding, Mike Miller and Arcadio Rojas own and operate More Lumber near Milner. The owners hope the lumber mill can find an upside to the beetle epidemic that is devastating forests across the West.
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People canoe in the reservoir at Snow Mountain Ranch, surrounded by beetle-killed pines.
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A machine cuts the limbs off lodgepole pines at Snow Mountain Ranch near Granby.
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The mountain pine beetle has devastated parts of the Steamboat Ski Area.
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Rocky Mountain Pellet Co. plant manager Bob Stahl explains how the pellet plant will work once it is operational.
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John Redmond demonstrates one of the wood-pellet boilers he sells for the Danish Company TARM USA. The pellets can be made from the scrap material created by many area sawmills processing trees killed by beetles.
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Scrap materials created by many area sawmills can be used to produce wood pellets to fire wood-burning boilers.
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Jerry Heggie, left, and Frank "Red" Peters, with Wyo.-based Heggie Logging, talk about the logging industry at a logging site in the Roosevelt National Forest.
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Beau Heggie, with Heggie Logging, replaces a chain on the harvester at a Roosevelt National Forest logging site.
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Lumber produced from trees killed by beetles is stacked in a pile at J Bonn Wood Products in Steamboat Springs. It will be used in home construction. Bonn is one of several local businessmen hoping to find a silver lining in the beetle epidemic in Colorado.
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Joe Redfern, of J Bonn Wood Products, cuts a log into pieces of lumber at the Steamboat Springs sawmill. The lumber will be used in the construction of homes in the Steamboat area.
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Steve Yanoski, with Scribeline Timberworks Inc. in Steamboat Springs, assembles a structure made of lodgepole pine at a picnic area in the West End Village subdivision.
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