Eagle

[whoosh] Hello, Detours.

I'm Blair Blackwell from Eagle, Colorado.

I signed up for this year's Taurus race, uh, because Turkey is an incredible country and it will be an adventure to get to go off the beaten path there.

I am excited for the community and for the challenge.

On December thirteenth, some witnesses reported that a large round light went from a position in the sky down into the ground, which I had myself, uh, heard many reports from law enforcement as they tried to describe what they were encountering in the seventies in their efforts to investigate mutilations.

And the next morning, on December fourteenth, which is now about a month and a week or so ago, near Eagle, Colorado, between Vail and Glenwood Springs on the ranch of Lloyd Gerrard, two animals were found mutilated.

Hmm.

One was a young two-year-old female cow, dead, and the only thing that had been excised from the cow's body was an... what the rancher said was an eight-inch deep plug of tissue that had been removed from the brisket, something like a biopsy plug.

This animal was examined by a veterinarian who said he could not determine the cause of death.

Dr. John Altshuler, uh, the pathologist and hematologist in Denver who was on Area Two Thousand last week and who has, uh, worked with me since nineteen eighty-nine to examine the tissue from some of these animals, did receive four excision samples from the bull and confirmed that under a microscope they had been cut with high heat.

In the months before December, there were two other mutilations in the Eagle, Colorado area, and in one of those cases, extremely unusual, uh, this was investigated by the Eagle County Sheriff.

Uh, two ranchers came, uh, to, uh, discuss this particular animal, and this was reported by the Eagle Valley Enterprise newspaper that a cow, a female cow, was found inside of a potato barn where the animal should not have been and had never been before.

It's also peak mating season for many animals.

According to state patrol data, the number of wildlife crashes has been climbing year after year, with I-70 near Eagle being one of the highest risk areas.

State Patrol advises motorists to drive slow and stop for wildlife if you have time and space behind you.

If there's not enough time, the agency says to drive through, staying in your lane.

Large capital projects make up a big portion of next year's budget, and they include the Lumberyard affordable housing project and the redevelopment of Armory Hall.

The City Council will review these capital projects during a work session tonight.

Ballots are going out to voters in Pitkin, Eagle, and Garfield Counties this week.

You can mail your ballots back until October 26th.

The Sheriff's Office says there's decreased danger for a wildfire after all the rain that they've had there.

Eagle and Pitkin counties also lifted fire restrictions last week.

We had a busy summer for wildfires after our lack of snowpack and the extreme heat.

The worst fires of the summer season were Aspen Acres and the Gold Mountain Fire.

If people want to hang out with you in Lone Tree, they can go do that.

But, you know, this podcast being up here to tell me a little bit about the Eagle office and how they can access this care.

Yeah, so we are so excited about the Eagle office.

We're now in Eagle Ranch.

We opened a new office several months ago now.

We have a new provider, so we now have two.

An alternative, I know it's so hard up there.

There are limited providers and so many people, and I know people are waiting really long times to get in, just like our office used to be four to six months sometimes to get in.