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Lessons in the debris

Big Front Range fires show the benefits, limits of forest thinning

Art program unveils new work

Forty students, two semesters of work leads to sculpture gracing library garden

Two-hotel project provokes backlash

Planning Commission recommends approval

Wildfire-spawned flash floods run up costs on Western Slope

MANITOU SPRINGS – Wildfire burn scars have spawned flash floods up and down Colorado’s Front Range and in other Western states this summer, saddling communities with millions of dollars in c...

A bird! A plane! It’s Ron LeBlanc!

City dresses officials as comic superheroes

Can't see the forest for the homes

When wildfire comes to town, home values trump forest values

Local Boy Scout Troop 501 celebrates its 75th birthday

World changes, but life’s virtues remain bedrock of group

Bee mites threaten keeper’s supply

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Dennis Arp downshifts his aging flatbed truck and slows to a crawl as he points across a grassy meadow near Mormon Lake. In years past, the field would have bee...

Tour de Farms bicyclists hit the road

Part bicycle caravan, part horticultural voyeurism, participants in Saturday’s seventh annual Tour de Farms braved swarms of insects and busy weekend traffic, including oblivious drivers and...

Firefighters see changing climate

No doubt about it, firefighters say. It's getting hotter. Wildland firefighters usually cite three main reasons for the recent increase in large, costly fires. In addit...

Losing the war on wildfire

National attitude toward fire creates indefensible space

Rangers tread tricky path when deciding to let fires burn

Every time a lightning storm rumbles through a forest, the rangers in charge have to decide how to handle the multitude of little fires that start: Smother them quickly, or let them burn out...