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Where Research and Tourism Collide — RMBL Knowledge Commons

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Where Research and Tourism Collide

By: By MICHELLE NIJHUIS Dateline: GOTHIC, Colo.

Date: July 22, 2008

Detroit Gothic Mountain Aurora Denver Tucson Aspen Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory Gothic Crested Butte Zonotrichia leucophrys Marmota flaviventris salamander

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When Michael Soule researched butterflies in this mountain valley in the early 1960s, the nearby town of Crested Butte was little more than a busted coal-mining settlement. ''You couldn't even buy a mug or a T-shirt,'' said Dr. Soule, now a conservation biologist. Crested Butte, reborn as a skiing a

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