Rocky Flats: A Wildlife Refuge Confronts its Radioactive Past

Posted by on Aug 17, 2016 @ 11:05 am in Conservation | 0 comments | Last modified: August 17, 2016

A barn owl bursts from the tall prairie grasses. Elk skitter among cottonwood trees near an old stagecoach halt. A shrew crosses a track and hurtles into milkweed, where monarch butterflies feed. Somewhere amid the rare xeric grasses are coyotes, moose, mule deer, a handful of endangered Preble’s meadow jumping mice, and more than 600 plant species....

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