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Colorado Facts Christian May 2009 Ms. Fenton
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Colorado Facts
Christian
May 2009
Ms. Fenton
Colorado state seal
• I learned that the state seal made Colorado a state in 1876.
• Did you know that Nil Sin Numine is the state motto
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State fossil
• The Stegosaurus lived in Colorado 150 million years ago.
• Stegosaurus weighed about ten tons.
• The Stegosaurus is the Colorado state fossil.
State tree
• Colorado blue spruce was first discovered on pikes peak in 1862.
• In 1939 the legislature adopted the Colorado blue spruce to be the state tree.
• The Colorado blue spruce grows at elevation of 5,000 to 11,000 feet.