The Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge was previously a buffer zone for a production facility of what?
Rocky Flats Plant The Rocky Flats Plant was a former nuclear weapons production facility in the western United States, near Denver, Colorado. Operated from 1952 to 1992, it was under the control of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), succeeded by the Department of Energy (DOE) in 1977.
Rocky Mountain ponderosa pine forest The Rocky Mountain ponderosa pine forest is a forest plant community at an elevation of 2100 - in the Rocky Mountains, in the U.S. state of Colorado. It is an important temperate coniferous forest ecoregion, including some endemic wildlife and grass species that are only found in this ponderosa pine ("Pinus ponderosa") habitat.