Projects

Other | Completed

Hanta Virus

In 1993, Dr. Charlie Calisher, Colorado State University and the Center for Disease Control, set up a monitoring site for the Sin Nombre Virus...
Education | Completed

Hops Resources

Tours of the hops yard to see systems used for irrigation, weed management and trellising. Information on the eleven varieties of hops that were...
Livestock | Completed

Improved Pasture

Results from a 5-year study where beef grazed Russian Wild Rye, Intermediate Wheatgrass and these two species plus alfalfa show that beef produced...
Livestock | Completed

Inbreeding

In 1946, H.H. "Stony" Stonaker Ph.D. along with a $25,000 grant from the American Hereford Association to study comprest cattle, began...
Agriculture | Completed

Oak brush control

More than one million acres of Colorado rangeland is infected with oak brush. The application of proper brush control and management practices...
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San Juan Basin Research Center

Research at the Old Fort provided many opportunities for graduate student research projects at Colorado State University. Over 40 MS theses and Ph.D. dissertations have been written on data collected at the Old Fort (San Juan Basin Research Center), and over 200 scientific papers and popular articles have been published.

In June 2010, Colorado State University closed the San Juan Basin Research Center at the Hesperus location.

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The Old Fort

18683 CO-140
Hesperus, CO 81326
 oldfortathesperus@fortlewis.edu
 970-385-4574

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Land Acknowledgement 

We acknowledge the land that the Old Fort is situated upon is the ancestral land and territory of the Nuuchiu (Ute) people who were forcibly removed by the United States Government. We also acknowledge that this land is connected to the communal and ceremonial spaces of the Jicarilla Abache (Apache), Pueblos of New Mexico, Hopi Sinom (Hopi), and Diné (Navajo) Nations.

The Old Fort and Fort Lewis College are committed to reconciling their history as a federal Indian Boarding School from 1892 to 1909.

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The Old Fort is owned by the Colorado State Land Board and managed by Fort Lewis College.


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