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80 percent of Denver public school kids have never been to...

It's the kind of stat that seems impossible, yet it's one that Todd Hartman at the Colorado Department of Natural Resources says he hears all the time — though they may very well be able to see them from their classroom window, 80 percent of Denver Public School students have never actually been to the mountains.

Chasing Light: Wondrous

I saw the frost on the cars from the kitchen window, but it wasn't until I went outside that I saw the details of...

Chasing Light: Backyard birds

I'm not a fanatical birdwatcher, but I have spent time with people who could identify half-a-dozen species in the forest around us just from...