United States Forest Service - The Durango Herald

Firefighting costs eat into U.S. Forest Service budget for recreation

Sen. Gardner says cuts hurt Colorado’s outdoors industry

DATE: Mar 8, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Last chance for comment on San Juan National Forest recreation cuts

Forest to finalize changes this spring

DATE: Jan 25, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Was 2015 a record wildfire year?

Dispute fans a debate over U.S. forests

DATE: Jan 24, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Group says collusion apparent in Village at Wolf Creek development project

Documents suggest Forest Service concealed and deleted information, allowed undue influence

DATE: Jan 16, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Poll shows Western voters don’t want to hand back federal land

Nearly 60 percent of Coloradans oppose privatizing public lands

DATE: Jan 11, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Privatizing public land gaining favor in GOP

Ranchers’ cause, not tactics, attracts Republican supporters

DATE: Jan 10, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

San Juan National Forest Christmas tree permits now available

Cost is $8 to cut your own tree

DATE: Nov 23, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Colorado Sen. Gardner: State has felt the burn of wildfires

In order to improve wildfire management strategies, members of the U.S. Senate’s Energy and Natural Resources Committee met Tuesday to examine methods for combatting the growing threat posed...

DATE: Nov 17, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

30 slash piles burn in Sauls Creek area

First snows most favorable time for the work

DATE: Nov 16, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Colorado senator criticizes current methods of combatting wildfires

Focus of committee turns to U.S. Forest Service budgetary constraints

DATE: Nov 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Court slams Forest Service over Wolf Creek Village

Judge rules agency inexplicably withheld information from public

DATE: Oct 1, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Prescribed burn east of Bayfield complete

The Yellow Jacket prescribed burn east of Bayfield was completed Tuesday just ahead of afternoon rain showers. A helicopter aerially ignited 944 acres of National Forest lands in ...

DATE: Sep 22, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News