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86 relations: Abajo Mountains, Abandoned railway, Aliciella penstemonoides, American black bear, American dipper, Aspen, Bobcat, Campsite, Canyon, Canyon wren, Cercocarpus, Chicago Tribune, Cimarron, Colorado, Civilian Conservation Corps, Colorado, Colorado River, Crawford, Colorado, Curecanti National Recreation Area, D & RG Narrow Gauge Trestle, Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, Dike (geology), Drainage system (geomorphology), Eagle, Elk, Frank William Erickson, Fraxinus anomala, Glenwood Springs, Colorado, Gneiss, Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area, Gunnison River, Hawk, Henry Mountains, Hiking, John Williams Gunnison, Juniperus osteosperma, La Sal Mountains, Laramide orogeny, List of birds of Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, List of national parks of the United States, Lizard, Magpie, Mahogany, Mearns coyote, Montrose County, Colorado, Montrose, Colorado, Mountain bluebird, Mule deer, Muskrat, National Monument (United States), National park, ..., National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places, North America, North American beaver, North American cougar, North American river otter, North Rim Road, Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, Owl, PDF, Pegmatite, Peregrine falcon, Pinus ponderosa, Precambrian, Pronghorn, Quercus gambelii, Raccoon, Rock climbing, Rudyard Kipling, Sagebrush, Salt Lake City, Sawatch Range, Schist, Spain, Steller's jay, Tertiary, The Infamous Stringdusters, Traditional climbing, Turbidity, United States Declaration of Independence, United States Geological Survey, Ute people, Volcanic ash, Volcanism, West Elk Mountains, White-throated swift, Wyoming. Expand index (36 more) »
Abajo Mountains
The Abajo Mountains, known locally as the Blue Mountains or The Blues, is a small mountain range west of Monticello, Utah, south of Canyonlands National Park and north of Blanding, Utah.
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Abandoned railway
An abandoned railroad is a railway line which is no longer used for that purpose.
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Aliciella penstemonoides
Aliciella penstemonoides (syn. Gilia penstemonoides)Beatty, B.L., W.F. Jennings, and R.C. Rawlinson (2004, February 9).
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American black bear
The American black bear (Ursus americanus) is a medium-sized bear native to North America.
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American dipper
The American dipper (Cinclus mexicanus), also known as a water ouzel, is a stocky dark grey bird with a head sometimes tinged with brown, and white feathers on the eyelids that cause the eyes to flash white as the bird blinks.
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Aspen
Aspen is a common name for certain tree species; some, but not all, are classified by botanists in the section ''Populus'', of the Populus genus.
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Bobcat
The bobcat (Lynx rufus) is a North American cat that appeared during the Irvingtonian stage of around 1.8 million years ago (AEO).
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Campsite
A campsite or camping pitch is a place used for overnight stay in an outdoor area.
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Canyon
A canyon (Spanish: cañón; archaic British English spelling: cañon) or gorge is a deep cleft between escarpments or cliffs resulting from weathering and the erosive activity of a river over geologic timescales.
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Canyon wren
The canyon wren (Catherpes mexicanus) is a small North American songbird of the wren family Troglodytidae.
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Cercocarpus
Cercocarpus, commonly known as mountain mahogany, is a small genus of five or six species of nitrogen-fixing flowering plants in the rose family, Rosaceae.
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Chicago Tribune
The Chicago Tribune is a daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, owned by Tronc, Inc., formerly Tribune Publishing.
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Cimarron, Colorado
Cimarron is an unincorporated community and U.S. Post Office in Montrose County, Colorado, United States.
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Civilian Conservation Corps
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men.
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Colorado
Colorado is a state of the United States encompassing most of the southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains.
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Colorado River
The Colorado River is one of the principal rivers of the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico (the other being the Rio Grande).
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Crawford, Colorado
The Town of Crawford is a Statutory Town in Delta County, Colorado, United States.
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Curecanti National Recreation Area
Curecanti National Recreation Area is a National Park Service unit located on the Gunnison River in western Colorado.
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D & RG Narrow Gauge Trestle
The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad's Cimarron Canyon trestle, listed as D&RG Narrow Gauge Trestle on the National Register of Historic Places, is a narrow-gauge railroad deck truss bridge crossing the Cimarron River, within the Curecanti National Recreation Area near Cimarron, Colorado.
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Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad
The Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad, often shortened to Rio Grande, D&RG or D&RGW, formerly the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, was an American Class I railroad company.
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Dike (geology)
A dike or dyke, in geological usage, is a sheet of rock that is formed in a fracture in a pre-existing rock body.
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Drainage system (geomorphology)
In geomorphology, drainage systems, also known as river systems, are the patterns formed by the streams, rivers, and lakes in a particular drainage basin.
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Eagle
Eagle is the common name for many large birds of prey of the family Accipitridae.
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Elk
The elk or wapiti (Cervus canadensis) is one of the largest species within the deer family, Cervidae, in the world, and one of the largest land mammals in North America and Eastern Asia.
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Frank William Erickson
Frank William Erickson (1 September 1923 – 21 October 1996) was an American composer, conductor, arranger, writer, and trumpet player.
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Fraxinus anomala
Fraxinus anomala is a species of ash tree known by the common name single-leaf ash.
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Glenwood Springs, Colorado
The City of Glenwood Springs is the Home Rule Municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Garfield County, Colorado, United States.
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Gneiss
Gneiss is a common distributed type of rock formed by high-grade regional metamorphic processes from pre-existing formations that were originally either igneous or sedimentary rocks.
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Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area
The Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area is a National Conservation Area located in west-central Colorado near Montrose.
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Gunnison River
The Gunnison River is a tributary of the Colorado River, long,U.S. Geological Survey.
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Hawk
Hawks are a group of medium-sized diurnal birds of prey of the family Accipitridae.
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Henry Mountains
The Henry Mountains are located in the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of Utah and run in a generally north-south direction, extending over a distance of about 30 miles (50 km).
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Hiking
Hiking is the preferred term, in Canada and the United States, for a long, vigorous walk, usually on trails (footpaths), in the countryside, while the word walking is used for shorter, particularly urban walks.
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John Williams Gunnison
John Williams Gunnison (November 11, 1812 – October 26, 1853) was an American military officer and explorer.
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Juniperus osteosperma
Juniperus osteosperma (Utah juniper; syn. J. utahensis) is a shrub or small tree reaching 3–6 m (rarely to 9 m) tall.
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La Sal Mountains
The La Sal Mountains or La Sal Range are a mountain range located in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah along the Utah/Colorado border.
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Laramide orogeny
The Laramide orogeny was a period of mountain building in western North America, which started in the Late Cretaceous, 70 to 80 million years ago, and ended 35 to 55 million years ago.
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List of birds of Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park
This is a comprehensive listing of all the bird species recorded in Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, which is in the U.S. state of Colorado.
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List of national parks of the United States
The United States has 60 protected areas known as national parks that are operated by the National Park Service, an agency of the Department of the Interior.
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Lizard
Lizards are a widespread group of squamate reptiles, with over 6,000 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains.
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Magpie
Magpies are birds of the Corvidae (crow) family.
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Mahogany
Mahogany is a kind of wood—the straight-grained, reddish-brown timber of three tropical hardwood species of the genus Swietenia, indigenous to the AmericasBridgewater, Samuel (2012).
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Mearns coyote
The Mearns' coyote (Canis latrans mearnsi) is a subspecies of coyote native to the Southwestern United States.
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Montrose County, Colorado
Montrose County is one of the 64 counties of the U.S. state of Colorado.
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Montrose, Colorado
The City of Montrose is the Home Rule Municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Montrose County, Colorado, United States.
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Mountain bluebird
The mountain bluebird (Sialia currucoides) is a medium-sized bird weighing about with a length from.
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Mule deer
The mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) is a deer indigenous to western North America; it is named for its ears, which are large like those of the mule.
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Muskrat
The muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus), the only species in genus Ondatra and tribe Ondatrini, is a medium-sized semiaquatic rodent native to North America and is an introduced species in parts of Europe, Asia, and South America.
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National Monument (United States)
A national monument in the United States is a protected area that is similar to a national park, but can be created from any land owned or controlled by the federal government by proclamation of the President of the United States.
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National park
A national park is a park in use for conservation purposes.
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National Park Service
The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations.
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National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance.
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North America
North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.
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North American beaver
The North American beaver (Castor canadensis) is one of two extant beaver species.
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North American cougar
The North American cougar (Puma concolor couguar), is a population of the cougar in North America.
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North American river otter
The North American river otter (Lontra canadensis), also known as the northern river otter or the common otter, is a semiaquatic mammal endemic to the North American continent found in and along its waterways and coasts.
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North Rim Road, Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park
The North Rim Road, Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, near Crawford, Colorado was built during 1933-38.
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Owl
Owls are birds from the order Strigiformes, which includes about 200 species of mostly solitary and nocturnal birds of prey typified by an upright stance, a large, broad head, binocular vision, binaural hearing, sharp talons, and feathers adapted for silent flight.
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The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format developed in the 1990s to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.
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Pegmatite
A pegmatite is a holocrystalline, intrusive igneous rock composed of interlocking phaneritic crystals usually larger than 2.5 cm in size (1 in); such rocks are referred to as pegmatitic.
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Peregrine falcon
The peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus), also known as the peregrine, and historically as the duck hawk in North America, is a widespread bird of prey (raptor) in the family Falconidae.
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Pinus ponderosa
Pinus ponderosa, commonly known as the ponderosa pine, bull pine, blackjack pine, or western yellow-pine, is a very large pine tree species of variable habitat native to the western United States and Canada.
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Precambrian
The Precambrian (or Pre-Cambrian, sometimes abbreviated pЄ, or Cryptozoic) is the earliest part of Earth's history, set before the current Phanerozoic Eon.
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Pronghorn
The pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) is a species of artiodactyl mammal indigenous to interior western and central North America.
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Quercus gambelii
Quercus gambelii, with the common name Gambel oak, is a deciduous small tree or large shrub that is widespread in the foothills and lower mountain elevations of western North America.
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Raccoon
The raccoon (or, Procyon lotor), sometimes spelled racoon, also known as the common raccoon, North American raccoon, or northern raccoon, is a medium-sized mammal native to North America.
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Rock climbing
Rock climbing is an activity in which participants climb up, down or across natural rock formations or artificial rock walls.
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Rudyard Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)The Times, (London) 18 January 1936, p. 12 was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.
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Sagebrush
Sagebrush is the common name of several woody and herbaceus species of plants in the genus Artemisia.
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Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City (often shortened to Salt Lake and abbreviated as SLC) is the capital and the most populous municipality of the U.S. state of Utah.
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Sawatch Range
The Sawatch Range The place name "Sawatch" is pronounced.
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Schist
Schist (pronounced) is a medium-grade metamorphic rock with medium to large, flat, sheet-like grains in a preferred orientation (nearby grains are roughly parallel).
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Spain
Spain (España), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España), is a sovereign state mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe.
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Steller's jay
The Steller's jay (Cyanocitta stelleri) is a jay native to western North America, closely related to the blue jay found in the rest of the continent, but with a black head and upper body.
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Tertiary
Tertiary is the former term for the geologic period from 65 million to 2.58 million years ago, a timespan that occurs between the superseded Secondary period and the Quaternary.
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The Infamous Stringdusters
The Infamous Stringdusters are a progressive acoustic/bluegrass band.
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Traditional climbing
Traditional climbing, or trad climbing, is a style of rock climbing in which a climber or group of climbers place all gear required to protect against falls, and remove it when a pitch is complete.
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Turbidity
Turbidity is the cloudiness or haziness of a fluid caused by large numbers of individual particles that are generally invisible to the naked eye, similar to smoke in air.
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United States Declaration of Independence
The United States Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House (now known as Independence Hall) in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776.
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United States Geological Survey
The United States Geological Survey (USGS, formerly simply Geological Survey) is a scientific agency of the United States government.
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Ute people
Ute people are Native Americans of the Ute tribe and culture and are among the Great Basin classification of Indigenous People.
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Volcanic ash
Volcanic ash consists of fragments of pulverized rock, minerals and volcanic glass, created during volcanic eruptions and measuring less than 2 mm (0.079 inches) in diameter.
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Volcanism
Volcanism is the phenomenon of eruption of molten rock (magma) onto the surface of the Earth or a solid-surface planet or moon, where lava, pyroclastics and volcanic gases erupt through a break in the surface called a vent.
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West Elk Mountains
The West Elk Mountains are a high mountain range in the west-central part of the U.S. state of Colorado.
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White-throated swift
The white-throated swift (Aeronautes saxatalis) is a swift of the family Apodidae native to western North America, south to cordilleran western Honduras.
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Wyoming
Wyoming is a state in the mountain region of the western United States.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Canyon_of_the_Gunnison_National_Park
