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| | Rocky Mountain News: Local |
 | | A Swainson's hawk flies to a branch in the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge Thursday afternoon. |
 | | The Rocky Mountain Arsenal, once a cauldron of poisons, home to chemical weapons and pesticides manufacturing, is making another major shift toward its emerging status as an urban wildlife refuge. |
 | | Gradually, officials say, all the steady cleanup progress is making the public view the old arsenal site more as a wildlife refuge, a place to see deer, bald eagles, burrowing owls and prairie dogs, and less for its fading notoriety as a home to military nerve gas production decades earlier. |
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