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Elk farming has been an industry in the province of Alberta for decades, with a peak of 600 elk farms in the industry's heyday; in 2022, only 134 remained. [1] The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has strictly regulated elk farming due to concerns about chronic wasting disease (CWD), a prion disease that affects elk and other members in the deer family.
Established shortly before 1899, it includes a complex of four buildings and multiple other historic structures. In 2007, the farm was designated a historic district and listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its historically significant architecture. [1] It was a home of settler Emmet Ayers Bromley, who came to Colorado ...
West Elks is an American Viticultural Area (AVA) located in Delta County on the Western Slope of Colorado within the North Fork Valley surrounding the towns of Cedaredge, Hotchkiss and Paonia. It was established by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) effective May 7, 2001 and is the latest of the two registered viticultural areas ...
The Lower Colorado River Valley − LCRV — a geographic region flanking the Lower Colorado River, in California, Arizona, and Nevada. Its watershed is within the larger Colorado River Basin . The main article for this category is Lower Colorado River Valley .
The Lower Colorado River Valley has unique plant communities because it is the most arid part of the desert and it has the highest temperatures, in excess of 120 °F (49 °C) during the summer. The low humidity means that most plants must have mechanisms that deal with severe water loss through evaporation.
Traffic in Evergreen, Colorado, came to a halt as a herd of elk crossed the road early on Wednesday, November 2.Mark Kirkemier filmed the moment on Highway 74 near Elk Meadow Park as he waited for ...
Subsequently, about 100 acres (0.40 km 2) of the Shell Oil site was sold to Commerce City in 2010. Of the remaining 250 acres (1.0 km 2 ) of the Shell site, 100 acres (0.40 km 2 ) are (as of 2013) being used for a water treatment facility and another 150 acres (0.61 km 2 ) for domestic livestock grazing.
Bureau of Reclamation regions. This is a list of valleys within the Lower Colorado River Valley corridor, from the Hoover Dam region, south to the Mexico border.. Six valleys are contained within neighboring bajadas and mountain ranges, on the Colorado River proper; other tributary valleys flow during desert rain episodes, and are otherwise dry washes.