by Web Editor | Feb 13, 2015 | News, News/PR
National forest officials in Colorado and Wyoming said Monday that they plan to reopen more campgrounds and change tactics as a massive outbreak of the mountain pine beetle wanes. Workers will now turn their attention more toward removing dead trees to prevent them...
by Web Editor | Mar 26, 2014 | News, News/PR
Facing the prospect of a dangerous wildfire season made worse by a devastating drought, Colorado officials are thinking about spending millions of dollars to invest in a new fleet of firefighting air tankers. A bipartisan proposal before the state Senate would give...
by Web Editor | Nov 6, 2013 | News, News/PR
Colorado’s U.S. Senator Mark Udall, a strong voice for proactively reducing wildfire risk throughout Colorado, led a bipartisan and bicameral letter pressing the U.S. Department of Agriculture to partner with the timber industry to reduce wildfire risks in...
by Web Editor | Jul 8, 2013 | News, News/PR
If you doubt that climate change is transforming the American landscape, go to Santa Fe, New Mexico. Sweltering temperatures there have broken records this summer, and a seemingly permanent orange haze of smoke hangs in the air from multiple wildfires. Take a ride...
by Web Editor | May 13, 2013 | News, News/PR
Two small but unseasonably early wildfires burning in northern California’s wine country and another wind-whipped blaze farther south likely are a harbinger of a nasty summer fire season across the West. Officials with the National Interagency Fire Center in...