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Telluride says a lot of dumb things,” said Paul Major, the president of the Telluride Foundation, a community philanthropy. “You know, it’s easier to sit in Telluride and yodel about going green, and a community like Nucla is going, ‘What are you talking about?’ We’re just trying to put food on our table and a roof over our heads.”” Hayden, F.V., 1869, Third annual report: United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, embracing Colorado and New Mexico, 155 p. All Naturitas people form a committed team. But we go much further. We define ourselves as: tireless, daring, creative, we like to "get into the mud" and we believe in the power we generate by working together.

Unaweep-Tabegauche Scenic and Historic Byway– Naturita is part of this 138-mile historic byway that offers impressive views of the San Juan Mountains. It follows CO-141 and CO-145 through valleys, canyons, and mesas. Recreation Uncompahgre National Forest. Photo by: Bureau of Land Management Colorado Laura Denney, a Nucla resident who does private housekeeping in Telluride, said there is an “amazing difference” in lifestyles between the two towns. Photograph: Cole Barash Others are doubtful that hemp will make much difference, and question whether Nucla’s natural landscape – beautiful, but without the show-stopping monuments of Moab or Zion – could ever become a true tourist destination. The town lies off the highway; it is not on the way to anywhere. Miller, who runs an Airbnb in her house, said the guests she gets stay for just one night, stopping over on their way somewhere else.The utopians spent nearly10 years digging an 18-mile irrigation canal through the arid landscape to bring water from the San Miguel river to the dry hill where they planned to build their colony. Money was tight, food scarce and the workers labored for shares in the eventual water rights in the canal they were digging by hand. To outsiders, the whole plan seemed like madness: how could anyone build a major irrigation canal without any capital? When they bury your whole town, they bury your history. There’s a little bit of shame to that,” said Jane Thompson, who grew up in Uravan. Her parents were the second to last family to move out.

Jeremy Nichols, the climate energy program director at WildEarth Guardians, the not-for-profit whose lawsuit led to the closure of Nucla’s power plant, is unabashed about his goals. “We want to shut down all coal-fired power plants. We want to keep all coal in the ground. We have a moral imperative to confront the climate crisis, and we can’t afford to say, ‘It’s OK for this power plant to run and not the others.’” Naturita Community Library –While some may not think of a library as an attraction, this highly-awarded library is the exception. Named as one of the “best of small libraries in America,” and honored with a National Medal at the White House, this unique structure is worth a visit.

Read about the best hotels in Ridgway, located an hour east, or Telluride’s top hotels, an hour to the south. Dining Exterior of the Motherlode restaurant in Naturita, CO. Photo by: facebook.com/motherlodenaturita Nucla became nationally famous when it passed an ordinance requiring every household to own a gun five years ago – a move that is still wildly popular among residents. But past Nucla’s one minute of fame, locals worry about their beloved home becoming a ghost town. Last November, officials said, a heavily armed man with a history of anger at law enforcement opened fire on a sheriff’s deputy while he was driving in a remote area not far from Nucla. The officer returned fire, killing the man. A local prosecutor found the officer’s actions justified.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.6 square miles (1.6km 2), all of it land. [4] The San Miguel River flows northwest from Naturita to the Dolores River, which continues northwest to the Colorado River in Utah. My grandfather was a farmer, he was a kind and gentle man that wouldn’t hurt a fly ... He had no idea what he was doing. None of them knew what they were doing. But that shooting was an anomaly for the area. “Prior to that, the last violent shooting was in 1986 or so,” Stephens said, when a man tried to break up a fight between a man and his wife outside a bar in Naturita, the town next door, and was shot to death.Uranium mining became the main economic sector in town in 1939 and continued to keep the mills busy throughout World War II. Eventually, market prices fell, mills closed down, and people moved out of town in search of the next great thing. Naturita was resilient and diversified to stay afloat, and today many make their livings off of cattle ranching, farming, and tourism. Main Attractions The Hanging Flume on the Unaweep-Tabeguache Scenic and Historic Byway. Photo by: Jerry and Pat Donaho

Colorado Municipal Incorporations". State of Colorado, Department of Personnel & Administration, Colorado State Archives. December 1, 2004 . Retrieved September 2, 2007. They’re the most wasteful people, yet they tell us that, you know, we can’t have our uranium, we can’t have this and that down here.” They’re the most wasteful people, yet they tell us that we can’t have our uranium, we can’t have this and that down here Aimee Tooker The lower portion of the Naturita Formation represents river channel and floodplain deposits, whereas the upper part represent a complex of estuarine, lagoonal, and swamp environments of a coastal plain. [3] She thought some of the criticisms of the resort town have merit. “I, too, am frustrated with Telluride’s energy use and with the 19-bedroom second homes that are still consuming energy when nobody is in the house year round. That said, don’t let that stop a good idea from happening. Don’t use that as an excuse not to move forward with something that would help your community.”

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Still, Nucla’s commitment to gun ownership is no joke. There’s a tiny pink sign decorated with pistols at the local sheriff’s department – it reads: “We don’t call 911.” The town has no bars, no liquor stores, no movie theaters or malls, but it does have its own public gun range, free for use by all. Later that day, a stranger in the burger joint one town over, a 1950s-style diner run by Seventh Day Adventists, broke into my note-taking to warn me that I had better be writing a nice story. I pulled up a chair to his family’s table. His son was just hoping the jobs would hang on long enough for his daughter to graduate from high school. The town, named after the minerals extracted and processed there, had secretly supplied uranium to the Manhattan Project during the war. Afterward, the cold war uranium boom made the town prosper. Ludvigson and Witzke, [11] correlated the Dakota Formation in Iowa with the "Dakota" along the Colorado Front Range based on palynostratigraphy and recognized those palynostratigraphic sequences throughout the Western Interior. In 2012, the Dakota/Naturita Formation sequence and fossil pollen species in Utah were correlated with the Ludvigson and Witzke report on the Dakota at the Nebraska type location. [12]