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New COVID-19 restrictions will prohibit indoor dining, personal gatherings
Visitors learn about bird banding at Barr Lake State Park
Why is it so hard to cut Colorado ozone
The northern Front Range has to try BY MICHAEL BOOTH THE COLORADO SUN
Meredith McBurney takes an excited first look at a bird she will soon be banding and measuring.
The Bird Conservancy of the Rockies conducts banding at five stations across Colorado andline Nebraska in thethefall A long of cars outside city of Brighton’s rapid testing site at
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Riverdale Regional Park. The site has had to close early many days in recent BY NINA JOSS weeks SPECIAL due to high COMMUNITY demand. TO COLORADO MEDIAAdams County’s 14-day test positivity rate was 15.9 percent, as of Nov. 17, according to Tri-County Health Department. As the early morning City’s sunlight Brighton and Commerce test positivity rates were both higher than began to peek through the trees, 13 percent. Forty-five people in Brighton and 29 in Commerce City have Linda Grein helpedrelated her mother died from COVID-19 health issues. To limit the spread of COVID-19, Sue Popp take a seat inside a at least 15 counties moved to tighter restrictions that prohibits indoor and small wooden pavilion at Barr personal gatherings. Lake State Park. Nearby, scientists and volunteers were gently trapping migratory birds — many of which Photo by Belen Ward were about to begin a long
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(right) label envelopes that hold feather samples for the Bird Genoscape Project.
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As Denver metro counties continue to inch closer to local stay-at-home orders under Colorado’s system of coronavirusrelated restrictions, the state announced a new level of rules that prohibits indoor dining and personal gatherings — a change that applies to the majority of the Denver metro area and many counties in other regions. The state’s COVID-19 dial, which has been in effect since September, is the set of different restrictions that each Bird Conservancy of the Rockies volunteers Susan Rosinelevels (left)of and Cynde Barnes
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Ozone is the toxic air pollutant that has a lot of smart people on the Front Range really befuddled right now. Colorado is making big cuts to greenhouse gases, mainly by closing coal-fired power plants even faster than expected. New laws, and old cars switched out for new ones, have made steep cuts to the amount of nitrogen oxide and volatile organic compounds emitted in the nine northern Front Range counties. But we’ve been getting worse, not better, in the past few years on ozone, that asthma-inducing gas cooked up by a combination of nitrogen oxide, volatile organic compounds, county is required to follow hot basedsunon the light and wildfire smoke. We’ve severity of a county’s local virus spread. had Ozone Alert Days The dial38grew out ofAction the state’s safer-atcalled already this year, with home order — the policy that came after more to come before temperathe statewide order this tures coolstay-at-home off. spring and allowed numerous typeshas of Remember that the EPA businesses to reopen. now set the limit of average The state switched to color ozone at recently 70 parts per billion. identifiers — levels blue,regularly yellow and And since we are hitting ozone orange rather than measurements numbered levels — to into the 80s, the is level about avoid confusion. UntilEPA Nov. 17, red to formally declare us in meant a stay-at-home order. Now,“selevel vere” nonattainment of their red — “severe risk” — is the secondlimits. Here’s a chart that Please see RESTRICTIONS, Page 2 SEE OZONE, P21
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