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GOTHIC, Colo. - When Michael Soule researched butterflies in this mountain valley in the early 1960s, the nearby town of Crested Butte was little more than a busted coal-mining settlement. "You couldn

When Michael Soule researched butterflies in this mountain valley in the early 1960s, the nearby town of Crested Butte was little more than a busted coal-mining settlement. ''You couldn't even buy a m

Chicagoans spend an entire season indoors, locked away from fresh air and nature. When choosing a summer vacation spot, it's no wonder that of the Americans planning to take 328 million leisure trips

When a male groundhog emerges from his burrow at this time of year, it's ladies he's looking for, not shadows. Groundhogs, also called woodchucks, have long been regarded as the most anti-social of ma

*The critters really do poke their heads out of their burrows in February, researchers say -- but not to check on their shadows. When a male groundhog emerges from his burrow at this time of year, it'

FOR people in a hurry, the flight between Aspen, Colo., and Crested Butte takes about 11 minutes. For people on a hike -- or perhaps a horse -- it takes about six hours to go over land from one town t

FOR THE FIRST few days of a vacation one of us took last summer at several Colorado ski areas, our 3 1/2-yearold kept asking when we were going skiing. He soon figured out that we couldn't actually sk

CRESTED BUTTE, Colo. (REST) THE official Chamber of Commerce office is down the street a few blocks, but the unofficial, after-hours, every-day-of-the-week visitors' bureau is at the Conoco station wh