Neighbors of Kit Carson Mountain in southern Colorado want to change the peak's name because of concerns about the Indian-fighting frontiersman. Neighbors and Saguache County officials have signed petitions to rename the 14,165-foot peak Mount Crestone. Kit Carson was a rancher and trapper who helped crush a Navajo uprising during the Civil War. Carson's name has been attached to a Colorado county and its largest military base, but some residents in the San Luis Valley say they'd rather not have Carson's name on the mountain. The Colorado Mountain Club and the U.S. Forest Service oppose the change. The (Colorado Springs) Gazette reports that the U.S. Board of Geographic Names will decide whether to rename Kit Carson Mountain. AP
I wonder if these "neighbors" are from Iowa too.
Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
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