COLORADO BIRDING TRAIL: www.coloradobirdingtrail.com COLORADO WILDLIFE EVENTS AND FESTIVALS: wildlife.state.co.us/ Viewing/EventsFestivals/. AUTUMN WILDLIFE-VIEWING EVENTS: -- Fall Birding Festival at Barr Lake, Brighton, Sept.

Sep. 8--James "Jim" H. Griffis, who died Aug. 24 at 94 in his Aurora home, was Colorado's first state park manager and helped develop Cherry Creek State Park, Horsetooth Mountain Park and Lory State Park. One of seven sons, Griffis grew up on a farm near Raton, N.M.