In the country. And the significant opportunities for conservation which is the crown jewel of conservation programs and of course our National Parks. Its not Just National parks, of course. Its our forests, grounds, and efforts we have with the bureau of indian education. I thought i would talk specifically about some colorado projects today and what land and Water Conservation fund has meant for colorado. This is a photo of wilson peak in colorado, rises over telluride in southwest colorado. Its one of the 54 mountains in colorado that top 14,000 feet. Climbers and hikers eager to summit the 14,017 foot wilson peak have been frustrated for years by key access being blocked by land that made it impossible to get to. Wilson peak remained the last in colorado without public access. Through nine years of complex land negotiations and funding, the trust for public land purchased 25 patented mining claims, including the summit and key porptions of the main summit portions of the main summi
On january 26, 100 years ago president Woodrow Wilson signed into being the next park. Looking on from the background to mountains join man, you guess im proud of you, the other replies, i always knew you were all right. Further complements followed. Within a matter of month, he was being hailed as the father of document National Park. The title that he himself would soon appropriate in his own writings. The title has followed mills from his time to our own. Despite the most public of example, it raises the lifestyle statue of mills and his Border Collie that have stood in the corner of the park in downtown estes park. 1870, 2 1922, the father of rocky notional park Rocky Mountain National Park. The inscription continues as follows, he brought the love for nature and the wilderness to all that he touched. His legacy is in the scenery and wild gardens of the nature that we continue to enjoy. However, the title father is both unfortunate and misleading. That all too easily lends itself t
For anybody. Reporter bev marquese oversees the call center and said since the tragedy in highlands ranch, more are reaching out, mothers having trouble coping or feeling unsettled. Because theres been a mention of depression, people call for information about depression. Reporter she says a lot of people are calling to ask how to tell their kids who may have known the two boys or heard the most important thing she says is to make them feel safe in their own world. You can reassure them what happened there is very sad, and we will never know exactly why, but what i can tell you, you are safe in our home. Reporter the calls that come in here are confidential, and all you have to do is pick up the phone. All right, bye. Now the call center has contacttd more than 600 people a day, and you can also text shannon . Important stuff, thank you, jennifer. Developing right now a High School Teacher and soccer coach is in jail, accused of sexually assaulting a student. Benjamin forbes taught mmt
The largest salvage ever attempted. Today, september 16th, 2013. 3 c1 good morning. Welcome to today. It is 7 00 on the west coast. Im Savannah Guthrie. Matt is in colorado covering the floods. Alan natalie are here with me in the new studio. It is like americas living room. We have to say thanks to the crew. They worked tirelessly over the last two months. We will show you around the studio in a bit. A shooting at the Washington Navy yard. A search that is going on for the gunman. Lets go to tom costello. He is at the scene. Reporter good morning, savannah. We are fourtofive blocks away. There is a tremendous Police Presence and response to the incident fourtofive blocks down at the navy yard. At 8 20 or so this morning, there were initial reports of shots fired. Since then, really, an armada of Police Officers coming in. We have more coming in now. Unmarked vehicles, marked vehicles, d. C. Police responding to the scene trying to find the here is the. At least report, we have a repor
Happy to have you with us. The Government Shutdown goes on. Lawmakers appear to be making little if any progress. The standoff is now in its fifth day. In an interview the president said the republicans are too insistent on getting what they want. We can vote to open the government today. We know there are enough members of the house of the representatives, democrats and republicans, who are prepared to vote. The president was supposed to be in the summit in asia but the shutdown forced him to cancel the trip. Randall pinkston on what is happening, or should we say what is not happening. Reporter i think youre right, thomas, in what is not happening. The chamber was convened to vote on legislation guaranteeing that federal furlough workers would be getting back pay when the shutdown ends. And something that we usually dont see on capitol hill, a near unanimous bipartisan vote of that measure. Of course the other problem, the shutdown remains and we heard the difference of opinion betwe