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Colorado’s fall colors are beginning to explode. Here’s where to start aspen peeping.

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Care, Front Range leaf-lovers: As drought conditions in Colorado interrupt the time of the annual fall-colors burst, the aspens in Clear Creek County are ready to inspire awe. “They’re beautiful,” stated Cassandra Carroll, who operates at the U.S. Forest Service Visitors Center in Idaho Springs. “They’re at their peak, however there are patches on Guanella
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Rafters, anglers worry as Colorado’s famed white water becomes low water

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KREMMLING, Colo. – In the state known as the “mother of rivers,” the third-warmest and driest period in more than a century is wreaking havoc on waterways that provide the economic lifeline for rural communities and high-alpine habitat for Colorado’s signature fish, the greenback cutthroat trout. The extremes of temperature and precipitation – too much
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