After years of standing tall and drawing a crowd, the Ute Council Tree in Delta was cut down Friday morning. Originally 90 feet tall, it’s been cut down to only 20 feet. It’s been the central location ...

John Anderson points out a pine tree believed to be twisted by members of the Ute tribe who considered the trees sacred Photo by Justin Edmonds, The Gazette BLACK FOREST • How many times, John ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... GRAND JUNCTION — A cottonwood tree that provided shade for the Ute tribes of western Colorado before the arrival of white settlers has grown rotten and ...

The Ute Council Tree is shown moments before crews cut off the top of the stately cottonwood that arborists said was dying and was becoming a safety hazard. The Ute Council Tree this moring during a ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) — A cottonwood tree that provided shade for the Ute tribes of western Colorado before the arrival of white settlers has grown rotten and unstable and must be trimmed into a ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Towaoc – Ute Mountain Tribal Park guide Rick Hayes, walking stick in hand, forged well ahead of his group on Friday, eager to see inside Lion Canyon for the ...

That twisted tree with the bent trunk might not be a mere freak of nature; it very well could be a "culturally modified tree" distorted intentionally by Ute Indians up to 450 years ago. Throughout the ...

The tree was disassembled in front of a varied audience of local townspeople and Ute Indian tribal members, the latter of whom were both mournful for the destruction of the culturally important tree ...