Photos for August 9, 2009

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Steamboat Springs High School golfers Kaelen Gunderson, left, and Alan Capistron are two returning varsity players expected to lead a deep Steamboat squad. Gunderson shot a 69 on Tuesday at Haymaker Golf Course.

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Will Laughlin crosses the finish line of the Wild West Relay on Saturday with his wife, Beth.

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Will Laughlin crosses the finish line of the Wild West Relay on Saturday with his wife, Beth.

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Will Laughlin runs along the Yampa River Core Trail in Steamboat Springs. Laughlin ran 200 miles in the Wild West Relay, starting in Fort Collins on Thursday.

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Conor Barrett, left, and Sam Lane played lacrosse together at Division III powerhouse Washington College in Maryland. The two now are a big reason the Steamboat Bonesaws have been successful this summer.

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Proposed Victory Highway

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John Holcroft, of Aces High Services, picks up trash in the Heritage Park neighborhood Friday morning as a Waste Management truck picks up trash on the other side of the street. The Steamboat Springs area is served by several trash removal services.

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Part-time Steamboat Springs resident Doris Ross waves a flag while walking in the Survivor's Lap.

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Cancer survivor Taylen Zabel, 9, holds her parents' hands during Friday's opening ceremony.

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Michael Arroyo walks around the Steamboat Springs High School track in support of Relay For Life.

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Relay For Life participants, from left, Patty Roche, Lorraine Hopp, Patty Bender and Kris Tratiak walk around the track Friday.

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Supporters of Joanie Clark, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in April, attend Friday's opening ceremony.

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Five-year-old Ellery Hodges runs the track wearing a shirt showing her support for Jason Sear, who recently died after an 18-month battle against cancer.

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Cancer survivors begin the Survivor's Lap on Friday at the fourth Relay For Life in Steamboat.

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Seven-year-old Annika Belshaw, right, sets up luminaries with Steamboat Springs resident Sarah Peed on Friday during the Relay For Life event in Steamboat.

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As part of its water agreement with Steamboat 700, the city of Steamboat Springs will perfect water rights it owns in Stagecoach Reservoir.

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Ken and Terri Carpenter fear that summer evenings on their new patio won't be the same if the New Victory Highway carries traffic just across their fenceline in a desgnated greenbelt.

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A stand of young aspen trees look like little more than fodder for a Bush Hog, but the trees are racing to fill in gaps left when the lodgepole pines that previously dominated the landscape were decimated by beetles.

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Yampa District Ranger Oscar Martinez shows the year's growth on a young lodgepole pine tree in an area cleared five years ago.

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Even as they died from an unprecedented beetle infestation, lodgepole pine trees shed the seeds of the future. Pine cones, sprinkled now in open grass where their towering ancestors rotted, will grow to become the new forest.

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A crop of wildflowers spring up in what until recently was a well-covered lodgepole pine forest. Although the mountain pine beetle epidemic has drastically changed the look of the landscape, Forest Service officials insist the forest isn't dead. They say it's just going through a transformation, and they're working to ensure the new forest meets the needs of Colorado residents.

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Lesly Gracia

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Jill Axelson and John Lamb were married July 12, 2009.

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Reva Frink stands in the doorway of an oversize shed she uses as a coup on her ranch.

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Reva Frink holds up ribbons she has won at the National Western Stock Show.

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Reva Frink talks to some of her ducks while feeding them on her ranch.

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Kriss Bergethon

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Emerald Mountain Energy co-owner Tim McCarthy talks Wednesday about the new solar panels installed earlier this month on the roof of Bud Werner Memorial Library.

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Dave Entwistle is the administrator for the Christian Heritage School this year. Entwistle moved to Steamboat Springs from Casablanca, Morocco.

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One of Frink's ducklings.

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Reva Frink takes a few minutes to check out a turkey after feeding on her property near Steamboat Springs. She raises poultry including chickens, ducks and turkeys.

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Although they were planned as deed-restricted affordable units, exterior materials at First Tracks were upgraded so that they would blend in to a high-end project at Wildhorse Meadows.

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A construction delay in 2005 had the unintended consequence of building equity for the earliest pre-construction buyers at Sunray Meadows.

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