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.