Bright and early on the morning of October 3, Mollie Miles, a determined woman, entered the “Race for the Cure” in downtown Denver. The annual event raises money for research to find a cure for breast cancer. No stranger to these types of fundraising events, in August of this year, Miles participated in a span of bike rides through the Rockies to benefit the Safehouse
Ben Swiggle and a team of fish biologists from the Colorado Division of Wildlife were in town this week to study the fish population in the St. Vrain River. The team used a shore based electrofishing unit (the fish are shocked and then collected in nets) to determine the population, species, size, density, and biomass of the fish in a dozen different pools along the river.