The Elk Mountains are a small range of mountains in western South Dakota, forming the southwest portion of the Black Hills as part of its west-dipping monocline. They are geologically distinct from the Black Hills, on the other side of a "racetrack" region of red stone. The ridge of the Elk Mountains is formed of harder sandstones. The east face of the Elk Mountains is a 300-to-800-foot (91 to 244m) high escarpment, but the west portion falls slowly and features many canyons. The mountains are about 3,800 feet (1,200m) higher than the low prairie hills to their west.
Most of the Elk Mountains were protected in the Harney National Forest until 1954, when this protected area joined the Black Hills National Forest. Today the large South Dakota portion of the mountain range is in the Hell Canyon District of the Black Hills National Forest, while the much smaller Wyoming portion lies in the Bearlodge District. The Elk Mountains are one of three mountains ranges that comprise the Black Hills region and national forest, including the Black Hills itself and Wyoming's Bear Lodge Mountains.
Colorado (1923–1929) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. He won the 2000 Guineas in 1926 and the Eclipse Stakes in 1927. He was also noted for his rivalry with the Derby winner Coronach whom he defeated on three of their four meetings.
Background
Until the emergence of Fairway at the end of the decade, Colorado was regarded as the best racehorse sired by Phalaris, who became the most influential stallion of the 20th Century. His dam, Canyon, won the 1000 Guineas in 1916 and was a successful broodmare. In addition to Colorado she produced the Eclipse Stakes winner Caerleon.
He was a small, but powerfully built colt standing just over 15 hands, known to be a particular favourite of his owner, Lord Derby. He was trained at Lord Derby's Stanley House stable by George Lambton who found him a difficult horse to prepare because of his habit of "choking" in exercise gallops.
Racing career
1925: two-year-old season
Colorado was a leading two-year-old in 1925, winning the Coventry Stakes at Royal Ascot. In the Free Handicap, an official assessment of the year's two-year-olds, Colorado was assesses on 118lbs, eight pounds below the joint topweights Coronach and Legatee.
During the American Civil War a Confederate officer who is also a Captain in the Union Cavalry is keeping Federal troops in the Colorado Territory from reinforcing their armies in the East by forming an alliance of secessionists, outlaws, and opportunists as well as arming hostile Indians. Unable to send more reinforcements, the United States Secret Service sends one man, Military intelligence officer Lieutenant Jerry Burke to identify who is behind the troubles and put an end to it. Armed with a sweeping letter of both law enforcement and military powers signed by President Abraham Lincoln Jerry meets his old comrade in arms Gabby to go west.
The Confederate/Union officer calling himself Donald Mason is actually Jerry's brother Donald. Donald escapes arrest but confronts his alliance that they are getting rich whilst he is doing all the work and facing all the danger. Donald takes over by shooting a corrupt Indian Affairs commissioner after informing him that the agent is no longer an asset but a liability.
A Yes on 127 vote will also protect Colorado’s magnificent deer and elk herds from the ongoing and accelerating decimation by Chronic Wasting Disease... Colorado needs every mountain lion it can in the landscape to curtail the spread of CWD.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife warns that ... Pumpkins can draw bear, as well as deer and elk, which in turn, may attract mountain lions or other predators to your home.
$200,000 from RockyMountain Elk, a Montana-based nonprofit with chapters in various states including Colorado, with the stated mission to protect elk, habitat and the heritage of hunting.
According to the commissioners, hunting of apex predators such as mountain lions “plays a vital role in maintaining sustainable populations, managing the predation of species such as deer, elk ...
$200,000 from RockyMountain Elk, a Montana-based nonprofit with chapters in various states including Colorado, with the stated mission to protect elk, habitat and the heritage of hunting.
Why do less than 1% of Coloradans get to decide what happens with Colorado’s mountain lions and bobcats? ...Without hunting, Colorado’s deer and elk populations will be decimated.
$200,000 from RockyMountain Elk, a Montana-based nonprofit with chapters in various states including Colorado, with the stated mission to protect elk, habitat and the heritage of hunting.
Prop 127 simply protects Colorado’s majestic mountain lions and ...CWD is the most serious risk to the future of hunting today, infecting 42 out of 51 deer herds and 17 of 42 elk herds in Colorado.
Mountain lions ... In campaign materials and videos, Colorado’s Wildlife Deserve Better has claimed that mountain lions are decimating and jeopardizing the state’s deer and elk populations.
A Colorado Parks and Wildlife biologist works on a mountain lion ... In campaign materials and videos, Colorado’s Wildlife Deserve Better has claimed that mountain lions are decimating and jeopardizing the state’s deer and elk populations.
'
weather_info += '
