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Tracing Steps for a Greener Path

By: By GIA KOURLAS
Date: March 22, 2015
climate changescience communicationRocky Mountain Biological LaboratoryGothicAspen

Summary

It takes a committed bunhead to spend eight hours hiking over a mountain with a 13,000-foot peak just to get to ballet class. It also requires one devoted to nature. Karole Armitage is both. As a child, she spent summers at Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Gothic, Colo., a former ghost town f