SCAR STARTS TO HEAL/ Damaged mountainside is well on its way to recovery thanks to hard work of dedicated leader, volunteers
"The Scar" is officially no more.
In a short ceremony Friday, the Queens Canyon Quarry - a gash in a hillside just north of Garden of the Gods - was renamed the Greg Francis Bighorn Sheep Habitat.
The name honors the quarry's longtime manager of reclamation, who died in October at age 54.
The ceremony and the unveiling of a steel statue of a bighorn sheep on a hillside at the quarry was meant to honor a man who spent more than 15 of his 30-plus years with Castle Concrete working to reclaim the mountainside, home to a herd of 65 bighorns.
It also served as an official marker that years of reclamation - by Castle and by hundreds of volunteers - is at an end at the quarry. …
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