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  1. Sep 15, 2023 · Hikers walk on the Summit Lake trail at Mount Evans in Clear Creek County on Sept. 12, 2023. The 14,265 ft. peak was renamed by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names to Mount Blue Sky on Sept. 15,...

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  3. Sep 15, 2023 · WASHINGTON — The Department of the Interior today announced the Board on Geographic Names (BGN) has voted on the final replacement name for Mount Evans in Colorado. 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 ...

  4. Sep 15, 2023 · The U.S. Board on Geographic Names put a period on the dispute between two tribal groups on the new name for Colorado's Mount Evans, selecting Mount Blue Sky on Friday. The vote was 15-1, with three abstentions.

  5. Sep 15, 2023 · The mountain that towers high above Metro Denver was renamed Friday as Mount Blue Sky. The U.S. Board on Geographic Names decided to rename 14,265-foot Mount Evans during a virtual...

  6. Sep 15, 2023 · The U.S Board of Geographic Names voted Friday afternoon to rename Mount Evans to Mount Blue Sky, honoring the indigenous Arapaho and Cheyenne tribes. The mountain had been named after former territorial governor John Evans.

  7. On November 17, 2022, the Colorado Geographic Naming Advisory recommended unanimously that the name be changed to Mount Blue Sky. On March 3, 2023, Governor Jared Polis formally asked the United States Board on Geographic Names to rename the mountain to Mount Blue Sky.

  8. Sep 15, 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 ...

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