Animas Forks, one of the mining centers in the San Juan Mountains that was born out of ... but the gold and silver that put it on the map petered out shortly after the turn of the century.

Nik Kendziorski, archives manager for Fort Lewis College’s Center of Southwest Studies, said none of the old maps from that time period call the Animas ... the verdure-clad mountains are seen ...

San Juan County Floodplain Manager Michele Truby-Tillen said the U.S. Geological Survey and the National Weather Service both project the peak of season runoff on the Animas River will occur June 15.

For those interested in local stories, there is an archive of photographs, maps, letters ... of the surrounding San Juan Mountains. You will also pass the Animas River, which — due to mining ...

A mine waste spill inadvertently caused by environmental cleanup work spewed about millions of gallons of orange-colored discharge into a tributary of the Animas River. See the interactive map ...

soon after Anglo settlers converged on the region in the 1870s and started tearing up its mountains in search of gold and silver. Since then, the Animas and the San Juan, into which it runs ...