The Pawnee Buttes Project to enhance the area around the Northeastern Colorado landmark is off to a good start, according to Doris Williams, chairman of the Pawnee Pioneer Trails Scenic and Historic ...

You don’t go to Pawnee Buttes in northeastern Colorado by chance. Lonely and isolated, they stand several hundred feet above the rolling and sometimes choppy prairie. They’re nearly an hour’s drive ...

"They were extraordinary, these two sentinels of the plains. Visible for miles in each direction, they guarded a bleak and silent empire.'' That was how James Michener described Pawnee Buttes - which ...

Volunteers are needed for a restoration project at Pawnee Buttes this weekend. Wildland Restoration Volunteers (WRV) is working with Pawnee National Grasslands to re-route about 1/4 mile of trail and ...

WELD COUNTY • A man is more than 100 miles and seemingly a whole world away from his home city of Denver. He drove north and far east to get here, the mountains like a hazy mirage in his rearview ...

GREELEY — Come celebrate National Grasslands Week, June 23-29, by experiencing all the Pawnee National Grassland has to offer. From hiking to birding to stargazing, there is something on the grassland ...

GROVER – Jim Sturrock’s ranch is for beef production first and energy production second. “You can’t raise hamburgers without forage or grasses,” he said. Sturrock sees about 400 head of cattle ...

GILL – Circular beige tanks hugged the rolling grasslands as red or white pipes snaked out of earth. The ground surrounding the tanks was brown, dry and lifeless. In several years’ time, reclamation ...

The Pawnee National Grasslands area may have seen human habitation as early as 10,000 B.C., Todd McMahon of the Colorado Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation told a small group attending ...

On a blustery day last winter, I dodged a parade of semi trucks to pay my final respects to the Pawnee Buttes. The Buttes are a pair of sandstone-and-clay ramparts that rise out of the vast, choppy ...

WELD COUNTY • A man is more than 100 miles and seemingly a whole world away from his home city of Denver. He drove north and far east to get here, the mountains like a hazy mirage in his rearview ...