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LCSO Explorer Post 909 earns awards at annual competition
Larimer County Sheriff’s Office Explorer Post 909 competed at the Law Enforcement Explorer Post Advisors Association annual competition July 12…
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Lower Skin Gulch stream restoration project proposal posted
The Canyon Lakes Ranger District of the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland is proposing restoration work…
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County to move ahead with permanent fix to flood-damaged County Road 27
Unable to negotiate right-of-way for a temporary detour, the Larimer County Commissioners on May 20 directed the public works department…
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How the ditch company saved Fort Collins
Moisture totals during the September floods exceeded all previous rainfall records for the month, according to the University of Colorado.…
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Larimer County Conservation Corps gets Community Foundation grant for flood restoration projects
The Larimer County Conservation Corps received $58,674 from the Community Foundation of Northern Colorado’s Flood Relief Fund to support local…
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Irrigators hope to tap flood disaster recovery funds
With as much as half a million acres of northeastern Colorado cropland left without adequate irrigation following the September floods,…
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Collaboration among government agencies accelerated disaster recovery
As U.S. 34 reopened weeks before a Dec. 1 deadline that looked nearly impossible to meet in the aftermath of…
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Gift of a Green Christmas Tree will cut, deliver 300 trees for flood-impacted families
Gift of a Green Christmas Tree, a Fort Collins-based charity that each year provides hundreds of free Christmas trees to…
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More than $1.5 million raised by Community Foundation for flood relief
Hundreds of individual donors stepped up to meet and surpass an inspiring challenge issued by Bohemian Foundation to raise $1.5…
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Too early to tell what impacts Sept. flood has had on pheasant and quail season
Colorado Parks and Wildlife biologists say lingering effects of a two-year drought have significantly affected pheasant populations across eastern Colorado,…