Can pure science co-exist with robust tourism at lab near Crested Butte?

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The Mountain Town News ... newspaper editor. On a Saturday evening in late August, traffic had slackened considerably. Photo/Allen Best From[1] The Mountain Town News (Allen Best): The Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory can best be understood as a 1,000-acre island of scientific... ... taking them there goes through Gothic, the flash-in-a-path mining town from the 1880s that is the headquarters for the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory. A scientist in Colorado first visited Gothic in 1919 a