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MARTINSVILLE, N.J., June 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- After a dismal ski season last year - when skier visits plunged 15% - and a tepid start to the 2012/13 season, Mother Nature began to cooperate and allowed the industry to rebound nicely in the latter part of the season. Against this backdrop, preliminary data released by the National Ski Areas Association indicate that skier days totaled 56.60 million, a jump of 11% and the strongest year-over-year gain in 30 years. Although a vast...
Unique 24-karat gold design wins industry honor for second consecutive year. Littleton, Colo. (PRWEB) June 04, 2013 CPI Card Group, a global leader in financial, EMV and commercial card production, and related services, announced today that the company has won the badge submission for the ICMA Expo for the second year in a row. ICMA’s Badge Design Competition allows ICMA's manufacturer members to submit their EXPO themed badge design for consideration as the badge worn by all EXPO...
DOJ Prosecution Overreached in Colorado Federal Criminal Case, says A Just Cause and Friends of Justice Denver, Colorado (PRWEB) June 04, 2013 A Just Cause and Friends of Justice continue their investigation of what they say is the wrongful prosecution and conviction of six executives of a Colorado-based company, IRP Solutions Corporation. The advocacy organizations believe that 9/11 Commission concerns could have been resolved a decade ago by software that was developed by the...
- First E-Access EPL and EVPL CE 2.0 certification achieved by a U.S. national provider LITTLETON, Colo., June 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- tw telecom inc., (NASDAQ: TWTC) a leading national provider of managed services, including Business Ethernet, converged and IP VPN solutions for enterprises throughout the U.S. and globally, today announced that the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) granted its stringent Carrier Ethernet 2.0 certification to four of the service provider's...
Announcement joins other protected lands to add to one of America's largest protected wildlife corridors WESTON, Colo., June 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Louis Bacon's Tercio Ranch Holdings LLC and Red River Ranch Holdings LLC today officially announced an agreement with Colorado Open Lands to place 21,000 acres of Tercio Ranch and Red River Ranch into perpetual conservation easements, which will create nearly 800,000 acres of publicly and privately connected lands stretching from...
ARLINGTON, Va., June 4, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) congratulates the health agencies in Colorado, Delaware, Maine, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Wyoming, each of whom will receive awards from the March of Dimes for reaching meaningful milestones in their efforts to reduce preterm births. Maine and Oregon will receive the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Prematurity Campaign Leadership Award for lowering their...
DENVER, June 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Colorado's digital technology minds launched 122 digital technology startups in 2012. 70 companies secured funding of at least $1M, with Software and B2B Web representing the fastest growing sectors. 20 companies were acquired. [SEE INFOGRAPHIC] (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130603/CG24532-INFO) "2012 was another record-setting year for digital technology companies in Colorado," said Erik Mitisek, CEO Colorado Technology...
The Real Estate Marketing Insider announces the publication of a list of starting markets designed to guide realtors in beginning or strengthening their luxury property sales. The list was announced following an editorial in the South Florida Business Journal that featured ultra-luxury real estate listings in the Miami Beach area. San Diego, CA (PRWEB) June 01, 2013 The Real Estate Marketing Insider’s executive director, Tobias Nergarden, announced today that his publication had...
Two modern home designs by Colorado architects Arch11 have been nationally featured in the "Wall Street Journal" and "The New York Times" recently. The Boulder/ Denver architecture firm is known for elegant contemporary solutions to complex design challenges as well as green-build innovation. Boulder, CO (PRWEB) May 31, 2013 Homes designed by Colorado firm Arch11, a commercial and residential architecture firm with offices in Boulder and Denver, were recognized...
FORETHOUGHT.net expands its enterprise-level IaaS cloud hosting services for businesses including virtual desktops, disaster recover, storage, email exchange on its MPLS networked data center. Denver, Colorado (PRWEB) May 31, 2013 FORETHOUGHT.net announces today its Silverlining 2.0 upgrade to its cloud IaaS hosted services including dramatically improved performance and scalability. With the Silverlining 2.0 portal powered by the full VMware platform and support, customers can customize...
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Mesa Verde National Park is located in the state of Colorado in the United States. The park contains 52,485 acres of land that was once inhabited by Native American tribes including the basket maker and pueblo peoples, also known as the Anasazi tribe. In 1868, the American government made a treaty with the Ute tribe that established the area west of the Continental Divide as belonging to the Ute people. A new treaty was established in 1873 that decreased the Ute’s land to a strip that...
Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park is located in the western portion of Colorado in the United States. The park holds 30,750 acres of land that was once inhabited by Native Americans, including the Ute people. The first recorded American presence in the area occurred in 1881, when the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad encountered the area, taking nearly two years to build a line through the canyon. This railroad moved from Denver, Colorado to Salt Lake City and was a main line...
Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve is located in Colorado in the United States. The park occurs in what is known as San Luis Valley in the far eastern areas of Saguache and Alamosa counties. The area was first established as a national monument in 1932. It was not until 2000, when Congress passed the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve Act of 2000, that the area became a national park. The park underwent an expansion when the government, collaborating with the Nature...
Rocky Mountain National Park is located in north-central Colorado in the United States. The park holds 265,761 acres of protected land and is bordered by Routt National Forest in the northwest, Arapaho National Forest in the southwest, and Roosevelt National Forest in the east and west. The park is separated into two areas by the Continental Divide, giving the west and east areas different climates and habitats. It holds 450 miles of streams and 150 different lakes, as well as 72 mountain...
Formally known as the Colorado squawfish, this freshwater species is now called the Colorado pikeminnow. This fish was native to Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming, as well as portions of Mexico, but with the natural habitat changed by the damming of rivers and streams, this fish is now restricted to the Colorado Basin. Limited numbers of the Colorado squawfish still remain in the following rivers: Green, Gunnison, White, San Juan and Yampa; additionally it...
