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Going GeoThermal at Poverty Bar

09/11/2013 12:52PM ● By Grant Johnson

Despite the extreme climate at 8,000 feet near Pearl Lake, a North Routt home stays warm thanks to a recently installed geothermal heat pump.

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Finding Chi - Qigong Cultivates Healing Energy

04/15/2012 01:00AM ● By Various Authors

Life pulls at us from many directions. Sometimes we need to re-center our minds and spirits to do the things we know are good for us.

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The Stone Home

12/01/2010 01:00AM ● By Deborah Olsen

Tim and Alethea Stone’s home in North Routt County is the epitome of those imaginings. Tim Stone was a young architect and a bachelor when he relocated to Steamboat Springs from the Roaring Fork Valley. The Aspen market was prohibitive, but purchasing property in Steamboat was feasible and in 2003, Stone bought a lot in the woods near Steamboat Lake.

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Global Climate Change with a Local Twist

07/01/2010 01:00AM ● By Jennie Lay

A recent pair of 500-inch winters doesn’t trump the reality of climate change. Scientists predict the Rockies are ultimately headed for warmer temperatures, smaller snowpacks, earlier melt-off and corresponding drought, wildfires and water shortages – let alone consequences for the traditional ski season.

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New Find at Sulphur Cave

12/01/2009 01:00AM ● By Jennie Lay

SULPHUR CAVE has never been a big secret. Cavers' know it’s in downtown Steamboat Springs – a small, malodorous hole near the base of a travertine slope that is Howelsen Hill, Colorado’s oldest operating ski area.

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Animal Tales from Steamboat - Routt County run-ins of the four legged kind

04/01/2009 01:00AM ● By Anonymous

Maybe it’s the moon. Or global warming. Or some whacko alignment of the stars out of a Stephen King novel. Whatever the reason, it seems that lately there have been more wild and wooly animal tales from Steamboat than ever.

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Longing For Local Homespun Gifts for the Holiday

12/01/2008 01:00AM ● By Jennie Lay

Dear Santa, I’ve been an extra good girl this year, so I hope you’ll keep that in mind when you and your generous elves start pondering my extra-special wish list. You see, this year I’ve been on a mission to live more sustainably. Solar energy powers my home and work. I bought organic food from a Community Supported Agriculture farm.

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Energy and Green Building

07/01/2007 01:00AM ● By Anonymous

Stories in the Steamboat Pilot during the 1920s hailed one gushing gas well in the ToCreek anticline between Steamboat Springs and Hayden “a wonder.” Now, Australian oil and gas developer Comet Ridge Limited is actively rediscovering, and re-drilling, for Routt County oil.

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