Salmon to be given away in Dolores
Colorado Parks and Wildlife will give away kokanee salmon at Joe Rowell Park in Dolores at 3 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 30. Anyone wanting fish must hold a valid 2014 Colorado fishing license.
The number of fish each person receives will be determined by the number of kokanee collected and the number of people who show up for the giveaway.
People interested in receiving fish should bring a container.
The number of kokanee returning to their release site from McPhee Reservoir up the Dolores River is up from the last couple of years. Most of the kokanee are from 9 to 11 inches in size.
Kokanee are a freshwater, land-locked sockeye salmon. It’s not native to Colorado but is well suited to our reservoirs.
League to learn about veterans services
The League of Women Voters of Montezuma County will meet on Nov. 8 at 9 a.m. at the Ponderosa Restaurant in Dolores.
The guest speaker will be Rick Torres, who will discuss services provided to veterans in Montezuma County. The meeting is open to the public and everyone is welcome.
Ballot issue pamphlets from the League of Women Voters of Colorado are available at the Dolores, Mancos and Cortez public libraries and various other locations. There are four issues on the November ballot and the League publication provides pros and cons on each of the issues. The pamphlets are available in Spanish and in English. For info, call Eleanor Kuhl at 970-564-0708.
Open riding hours extended
Open riding hours at the Montezuma County fairgrounds indoor arena have been extended until 9 p.m. on Mondays and Fridays starting Oct. 20 until the end of the year.
User must have a Horsemans card with the fairgrounds and are encouraged to call 565-1000 before arriving to confirm open riding hours.
IFA plans haunted house
IFA Country Store is having the final run of our haunted house
Friday, Oct. 31 from 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. For admission, we are requesting donations so we may adopt a local family in need for Christmas, or families depending on donations. Suggested admission is $5 per person.
Info: IFA, 565-3077.
PBS show studies Puebloan water use
Colorado Experience, a Rocky Mountain PBS series, has mined the knowledge of archaeologists, including three from the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, for ways in which the ancestral Pueblo experience might inform 21st-century life and water policy.
In the 1200s, the convergence of a booming population and a severe drought pushed inhabitants of the Four Corners south toward Hopi, Zuni and the northern Rio Grande valley.
For centuries before that, though, they subsisted capably in this arid landscape.
In the half-hour program, Zuni tribal member Dan Simplicio, who serves as Crow Canyon’s laboratory education coordinator, described how the Zuni emerged into the surface world covered with moss and with tails and webbed hands and feet.
“Living West: Water” will air at 7 p.m. , Oct. 30.
The Cortez Journal
