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Sep 16, 2023 · Mount Blue Sky, formerly Mount Evans, was renamed in a Friday vote of the US Board of Geographic Names, the US Department of the Interior announced in a news release.
Nov 18, 2022 · A yearling mountain goat explores an abandoned building on Mount Evans. (Hugh Carey, Special to The Colorado Sun) The state’s Geographic Naming Advisory Board on Thursday voted unanimously to strip the name of disgraced territorial governor John Evans from a Clear Creek County fourteener and recommended Mount Blue Sky as the new name ...
Mar 16, 2022 · Mount Evans may be renamed ‘Mount Blue Sky’ under state proposal. Colorado State Highway 5, which leads to the summit of Mt. Evans. July 6, 2021. The years-long push to rename Mount Evans may ...
Sep 15, 2023 · FILE - Mount Evans is seen near Idaho Springs, in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains, Sept. 10, 2016. On Friday, Sept. 15, 2023, federal officials renamed the towering mountain southwest of Denver to Mount Blue Sky as part of a national effort to address the history of oppression and violence against Native Americans. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert, File)
Sep 15, 2023 · The 25-member Domestic Names Committee (DNC) voted to change the name to Mount Blue Sky for federal use after two nation-to-nation consultations and several years of consideration by state, county, local and Tribal governments.
Sep 18, 2023 · The federal board in charge of naming geographic places on public land voted Friday to approve Mount Blue Sky as a replacement name for Mount Evans, effective immediately. After years of negotiations involving dozens of meetings with hundreds of residents, Native Americans, and local and state elected leaders, the Evans name will be stripped ...
Sep 15, 2023 · DENVER (KDVR) — The U.S. Board on Geographic Names officially renamed Mount Evans to Mount Blue Sky during the Council of Geographic Names Authorities conference Friday afternoon. The name ...
