Las Animas - Bent County Library District

Charlie Fowler Collection magazine-Donated by Adrian & Lorna Burgess The Story on Everest (Mt. Everest Exclusive) Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer on page 46 Altitude Sickness, from Bad to Worse by Katie Arnold on page 51 The Descent, Step by Step by John Alderman and Katie Arnold on page 54

Throughout Colorado, youth are spending more time seated in front of televisions, computers, and video games and less time enjoying the outdoors. This threatens children's education physical and mental health, and hinders tomorrow's leaders' ability to understand and protect Colorado's resources.

"Based on [the author]s own experiences as a young man, the books two novellas and short story are set in the small towns and mountains of western Montana. It is a world populated with drunks, loggers, card sharks, and whores, but also one rich in the pleasures of fly-fishing, logging, cribbage, and family. By turns raunchy and elegiac, these superb tales express, in [the author]s own words, 'a little of the love I have for the earth as it goes by.'y--...

Every five years, Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) leads development of a comprehensive outdoor recreation plan to maintain eligibility for funding through the Land and Water Conservation Fund, and to inform additional investments from other federal, state, local and private programs. Given the significance of outdoor recreation in the state, this plan is much more than a federal requirement for funding. This plan is the first time a Colorado SCORP...

On February 11, 2012 Colorado Parks and Wildlife hosted a Partnership Development Conference. The conference kicked off Partners in the Outdoors, a statewide initiative to engage a cohesive coalition of partner organizations from the public, corporate, small business, and nonprofit sectors in expanding awareness of and participation in outdoor recreation by Colorado residents and visitors.