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Jahir Rodas cuts his first Christmas tree and keeps his grandmother's memory alive

Local residents celebrated a traditional Mexican posada and cut down their own Christmas trees in the Thompson Divide area last Saturday. Reporter Eleanor Bennett spent the day with Vicky Rodas, who wanted to give her 10-year-old son Jahir Rodas the same experience her mother gave her growing up in Aguascalientes, Mexico.

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Smokey Bear, trees, and tamales — posada welcomes Latino families to Christmas tradition in the forest

Roaring Fork Valley families kicked off the Christmas season at a posada and tree-cutting event at the Babbish Gulch trailhead near Glenwood Springs on Saturday. Conservation advocacy group Wilderness Workshop and their Latino-outreach division Defiende...

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Community invited to cut a Christmas tree and dig into tamales

Local residents will have a chance to celebrate a traditional Mexican posada and cut down their own Christmas trees in the Thompson Divide area on Saturday. It’s the third year the White River National Forest and Wilderness Workshop’s Defiende Nuestra Tierra program will be leading the outing.

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Everyone invited to posada, a traditional Latin American Christmas-season tradition, on public land

Comforting food, warm drinks, and community all comprise the traditional Latin American Christmas-season tradition of posadas. Different cultures and nationalities celebrate in many ways, but the Mexican tradition always includes tamales and champurrado — or Mexican hot chocolate. On Saturday...

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Roaring Fork Valley students get a bird's eye view of land management

Today’s youth are the environmental stewards of tomorrow, and getting them to care about the environment they will inherit from older generations is easier when done from a bird’s eye view. On Tuesday, 33 kids...

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Wilderness Workshop hosts restoration event at Dinkle Lake, national park entrance free on Public Lands Day

Wilderness Workshop and Defiende Nuestra Tierra will be celebrating National Public Lands Day on Saturday, Sept. 24, by getting in the public earth hands on with restoration and clean-up activities at Dinkle Lake Day Use...

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Carbondale looks to improve civic engagement with Latino residents

Carbondale could be the first Roaring Fork Valley and Garfield County municipality to appoint a standing Latino advisory council to advise the town and ensure Latino community concerns are heard. Roughly a third of Carbondale’s...

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Community members gather to celebrate Latinx culture and environmental justice efforts

Over 400 community members gathered in the Roaring Fork and Colorado river valleys on Saturday, July 24 for the final day of Latino Conservation Week. The nationwide initiative celebrates Latinx heritage and aims to make outdoor recreation and environmental decision-making more accessible.

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Organizations hoping to inspire more Latino adventurers in the great Colorado outdoors

The U.S. Forest Service, Aspen Institute, and the Wilderness Workshop's Defiende Nuestra Tierra are bringing together Latino community leaders, food, live music and family activities and games on July 23 at Two Rivers Park in Glenwood Springs.

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Hundreds expected to attend Latino Conservation Week celebration

Hundreds of people from the Roaring Fork and Colorado River Valley Latino community will be celebrating Latino Conservation Week on Saturday at Two Rivers Park with outdoor family activities, live music and food vendors from...

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