Loose Ends: Horn hunting

Visitors to northwestern Colorado talk about its natural beauty as a revelation: the wildlife, the scenery and the outdoor way of life. There are some who find beauty in the cast-off antlers shed each spring. The big bucks that graze in yards all over town drop their horns in all sorts of unexpected places. A recent morning walk revealed that only minutes before, a big buck had passed through shedding his antlers only moments before.