Colorado snow: Storm system is bringing snow and blizzard conditions to Denver and other cities CNN 3/15/2021 © KCNC
The Rocky Mountains and western Plains were digging out after heavy snow and blizzard conditions on Monday while people in Texas cleaned up from tornado damage.
More than 8 million Americans remain under winter weather alerts Monday morning, with just over 100,000 of them under blizzard warnings, according to CNN meteorologists.
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis office said Sunday that all state government offices in Denver and surrounding counties will be closed Monday because of the extreme weather conditions.
Essential state facilities for public health and safety will remain open and essential personnel will still report to work, according to a release from the office.
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HB295 advances, but critics fear ‘unintended consequences’ of such prohibitions.
(Steve Griffin | Tribune file photo) Mule deer stand in a sliver of morning sunshine as they graze in Emigration Canyon in 2018. Lawmakers have advanced a bill that would ban baiting in big game hunting.
| Feb. 17, 2021, 2:00 p.m.
Regardless of your opinions about piling apples in the woods to attract deer, the practice spreads disease among Utah’s wild herds, according to the state’s Division of Wildlife Resources.
“Baiting is not necessarily just an ethics issue. It gets at the heart of disease transmission for many of our wildlife, specifically deer,” Riley Peck, DWR’s legislative liaison, told lawmakers last week. “CWD [chronic wasting disease] in Utah is prevalent. It does have an increased transmission rate through baiting.”
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