By Bob Dougherty
Tribune Editor   

   For over a century, Palisade has celebrated its peach harvest with various events. Some date it to Iowa Day, which marked the emigration of residents from that state to the east end of the Valley. For others, Peach Days were the forerunner of the modern-era Palisade Peach Festival.

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By Bob Dougherty
Tribune Editor

    The Bureau of Land Management Uncompahgre Field Office (UFO) continues to collaborate with staff from the Colorado Department of Agriculture's Palisade Insectary after first releasing Diorhabda elongata deserticola Chen, the tamarisk leaf beetle, in July 2007. Riparian sites, selected for release of the tiny beetle with a huge appetite for tamarisk leaves, have long since lost their native vegetation to decades-old growth of tamarisk.

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