Rocky Mountain Arsenal: From Munitions to Wildlife Refuge
A visit to Rocky Mountain Arsenal Today is peaceful. Bison, prairie dogs, black-footed ferrets and bald eagles call it home. Visitors can be found fishing, birdwatching and viewing wildlife. It's hard to believe the site's history was as a munitions plant and pesticide and rocket fuel production facility. In the early 1980's, the site was one of the most polluted in America.
Through decades-long collaboration between many agencies, the site was successfully cleaned up and re-purposed as a National Wildlife Refuge. Learn more about this Environmental Health success story.