Fort Collins Colorado
Preserve America Community: Fort Collins, Colorado
The center of downtown Fort Collins is the Old Fort Collins Historic District, and today the city has over 1,800 historic properties listed on National, State, and local registers. These include such well-preserved and rehabilitated properties as the Avery Block, built in 1897, a World War I-era streetcar line, and the Northern Hotel, recently rehabilitated for senior housing. ... City of Fort Collins: www.ci.fort-collins.co.us ... The city is a Certified Local Government, and is part of the Cache La Poudre-North Park State Scenic Byway in the Colorado Scenic Byways system. Forty-five miles of the Cache La Poudre River through Fort Collins and vicinity was designated as a National Heritage Area in 1996 to commemorate the role of water development and management in the American West. ... [Read More]
Fort Collins Science Center Online
Fort Collins, CO 80526-8118 ... Colorado's Front Range is an area of rapid population growth, escalating urbanization, oil and gas development, and agricultural production, all of which are sources of nitrogen emissions. Increases in these activities result in commensurate increases in nitrogen deposition in mountain ecosystems. This has caught the attention of state air quality and environmental health specialists. USGS-FORT scientist Jill Baron will be speaking to the Colorado Directors of Environmental Health July 15 in Aspen, Colo. The purpose of her presentation is to inform county environmental health directors of the results of her 24 years of collaborative research on the ecological effects of atmospheric deposition in national parks, with a focus on Rocky Mountain National Park. A partner in the Colorado Front Range Integrated Assessment, which deals with environmental conditions and quality of life issues, Dr. Baron also will speak to state-wide trends in atmospheric nitrogen deposition. ... [Read More]
NIST Radio Station WWV
NIST radio station WWV broadcasts time and frequency information 24 hours per day, 7 days per week to millions of listeners worldwide. WWV is located in Fort Collins, Colorado, about 100 kilometers north of Denver. The broadcast information includes time announcements, standard time intervals, standard frequencies, UT1 time corrections, a BCD time code, geophysical alerts, marine storm warnings, and Global Positioning System (GPS) status reports. Broadcast Frequencies ... [Read More]
Colorado Department of Personnel & Administration (DPA) Division of Information Technologies (DoIT)
1864 A.D. Tension between non-Indians and the Native American tribes escalates. The massacre (Sand Creek Massacre) of Native American men, women and children in a Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indian encampment by soldiers and settlers stirs Native Americans to fresh violence and overland trails are often closed. Fort Sedgwick is established near Julesburg. Camp Collins established to protect travelers on Overland Trail. Later became Fort Collins. Colorado Seminary (now University of Denver) is chartered; Sisters of Loretto open academy. ... [Read More]
About the Fort Collins Science Center
FORT serves all DOI land management agencies and other natural resource agencies. More than 85 percent of FORT’s science is done in partnership with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the National Park Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the Bureau of Reclamation, and tribal governments. In addition, FORT scientists share resources and expertise with other public and private agencies and organizations. Federal agency partners include the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Centers for Disease Control, Department of Agriculture, Environmental Protection Agency, Los Alamos National Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, National Institutes of Health, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and National Science Foundation. Other cooperators are state fish and wildlife agencies, county and municipal governments, water and local weed control districts, and diverse bodies such as the Southwest Strategy, a consortium of agencies and tribes focused on natural resource issu ... [Read More]
Downward trends in the frequency of intense Atlantic hurricanes during the past five decades
Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA ... [Read More]
Driving Directions to the Fort Collins Science Center (FORT)
From I-25 Fort Collins Exits to the NRRC and the Fort Collins Science Center (FORT): ... Located south of Colorado State University's main campus, the Natural Resources Research Center lies between Prospect Road on the north and Drake Road on the south, and about one half mile west of College Avenue (see I-25 to NRRC map). Fort Collins is approximately 55 miles north of Denver and about 60 miles from Denver International Airport (see DIA to Fort Collins map). A new toll road, E-470, is available connecting DIA and north I-25. There are two toll booths; they do not span the highway but you MUST pull into them or your car will be photographed and you will be ticketed. Have $3.50 available to use this route ($1.75 per toll booth; change is available at both toll booths). ... [Read More]
Colorado - Team Fort Collins Underage Drinking/Driving Prevention
Team Fort Collins was created in an effort to help reduce underage drinking and driving, and zero tolerance violations in Fort Collins by 10 percent. ... Team Fort Collins Underage Drinking/Driving Prevention ... In 2001, over one-third of all drivers between the ages of 21 and 29 who were involved in a fatal crash were impaired by alcohol. One quarter of all 18 to 20 year old drivers in fatal crashes were impaired. Underage drinking and driving is a serious concern in Ft. Collins; statistics from the City Clerk’s Office show that in 1998: ... [Read More]
HUD in Colorado
Secretary Jackson honors Fort Collins with Robert L. Woodson Jr. award for reducing barriers to affordable housing. Colorado city among 14 communities described as national models for cutting red tape. Read more . ... [Read More]
A CLIMATOLOGY OF INTENSE (OR MAJOR)
Landsea, C. W., 1991: West African monsoonal rainfall and intensehurricane associations. Dept. of Atmos. Sci. Paper No. 484, Colo. State Univ., Fort Collins, Colorado, 272 pp. ... Fort Collins, Colorado 80523 ... [Read More]
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