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Saving Homes from Wildfires

By | 08.20.07 | 4:34 pm

Some fairly simple and nonintrusive regulation might reduce the loss from wildfires in the wildland-urban interface zone if the findings of research released today are correct.

It’s not only the flammability of the forest, but the flammability of the…

Western Slope Under Fire

By | 07.09.07 | 11:37 am

Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at PhotobucketThere is a smoky haze covering most of the Western Slope. Fires in California, Utah and west of the Divide in Colorado have settled in the valleys causing some residents to call their local emergency services in fear that a…

Don’t Blame the Beetles

By | 07.20.06 | 4:23 pm

At a Senate hearing yesterday Sen. Ken Salazar (R-CO) got tough with the Bush Administration about not spending enough money to deal with bark beetle-damaged forests on public land in Colorado to reduce wildfire risk.

But if people…