In the Rockies today, an early morning earthquake damaged buildings in northeastern Nevada, and the mystery buyer of technology campus in Colorado is unveiled.
Reports are still rolling in on a 6.0 magnitude earthquake that damaged building in remote northeastern Nevada near the Utah border.
In Colorado, ConocoPhillips is the mystery buyer of the former StorageTek campus in Louisville ending speculation that the likes of Google and Yahoo would be moving there.
The Houston-based energy company announced it was building a renewable-energy training center on the campus, and said the concentration of research and education institutions in the area convinced them to buy the property.
While no estimates have been released about the number of jobs the Global Technology Center and Corporate Learning Center will create in Colorado, it will bring thousands of workers to the site for training annually.
Headwaters News is kicking off a new feature today: On the Bookshelf.
The monthly column, contributed by Fact & Fiction and the Bookstore at the University of Montana, will offer readers a review of books of interest to Rocky Mountain readers.
The initial offering is a review of Martin Nie's
Governance of Western Public Lands:
Mapping Its Present and Future."
