Motherlode –A local favorite gathering place, this classic bar has TVs, pool tables, darts, and a great drink selection to enjoy.

The utopians spent nearly10 years digging an 18-mile irrigation canal through the arid landscape to bring water from the San Miguel river to the dry hill where they planned to build their colony. Money was tight, food scarce and the workers labored for shares in the eventual water rights in the canal they were digging by hand. To outsiders, the whole plan seemed like madness: how could anyone build a major irrigation canal without any capital? Hayden, F.V., 1869, Third annual report: United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, embracing Colorado and New Mexico, 155 p. Jeremy Nichols, the climate energy program director at WildEarth Guardians, the not-for-profit whose lawsuit led to the closure of Nucla’s power plant, is unabashed about his goals. “We want to shut down all coal-fired power plants. We want to keep all coal in the ground. We have a moral imperative to confront the climate crisis, and we can’t afford to say, ‘It’s OK for this power plant to run and not the others.’” Naturita Community Library –While some may not think of a library as an attraction, this highly-awarded library is the exception. Named as one of the “best of small libraries in America,” and honored with a National Medal at the White House, this unique structure is worth a visit.

Hilary Cooper, a Telluride resident who was then the head of the Sheep Mountain Alliance, a Telluride environmental group, was one of the leaders who geared up to fight the uranium mill.

Geologic Map of the Panguitch 30'X 60' Quadrangle, Garfield, Iron and Kane Counties, Utah" (PDF). Utah Geological Survey . Retrieved July 22, 2022. Only much later, when he came down off the mountain, would Naslund learn why it was so silent. Terrorists had flown airplanes into both the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and civilian flights had been grounded nationwide. More than 2,000 miles from the stunned New Yorkers who had watched the towers fall, Naslund had been able to hear the nation coming to a halt. Some in town are optimistic that they will find a way forward: expand the Nucla airport for commercial flights, turn the old elementary school building into a hemp manufacturing center, finally mobilize tourism to Nucla’s canyons, rivers and bike trails. There were 257 households, out of which 35.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 44.7% were married couples living together, 12.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 35.8% were non-families. 28.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 13.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.46 and the average family size was 3.06.In the early 1900s, several mineral deposits were discovered in nearby towns and Naturita became somewhat of a central hub for activity. Residents capitalized on the influx of people in town and made good profits off their small businesses to support the miners and mining processes. Golf balls aren’t the only trace of the liberal resort town that end up downstream in Nucla’s water. In September, in the wake of a lawsuit from an environmental group, Nucla’s major employer, the local coal-fired power plant, announced that it would be shutting down in 2022. The coal mine that supplied the plant would be shutting down as well. In total, about 80 jobs were at risk – a huge number in a town whose population boasted, according to the 2010 census, only 711 people. To expand their group of workers and supporters, the cooperative society established a newspaper, the Altrurian, to share news about their progress nationwide. It covered the day-to-day debates, including updates on the type of cabbages and lettuces that had been planted to feed the workers, as well as features on vegetarianism, marriage and violent labor strikes in other states.

It was not easy for people working in information industries, or in tourism and real estate, to understand what it was like to be dependent on extraction industries, he said. If you had told my grandpa he was going to die a horrible,painful death at 70, he would have continued to mine Jane Thompson In the late 1800s, Naturita was a vibrant ranching community along the San Miguel River. There was a schoolhouse, a church, and a post office. Many residents made their living off of cattle ranching. Later that day, a stranger in the burger joint one town over, a 1950s-style diner run by Seventh Day Adventists, broke into my note-taking to warn me that I had better be writing a nice story. I pulled up a chair to his family’s table. His son was just hoping the jobs would hang on long enough for his daughter to graduate from high school.a b "Interim Geologic Map of the Escalante 30' x 60' Quadrangle, Garfield and Kane Counties, Utah" (PDF). Utah Geological Survey . Retrieved July 22, 2022. My grandfather was a farmer, he was a kind and gentle man that wouldn’t hurt a fly ... He had no idea what he was doing. None of them knew what they were doing. ZIP Code Lookup". United States Postal Service. Archived from the original ( JavaScript/ HTML) on January 1, 2008 . Retrieved November 25, 2007.