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DENVER (AP) — U.S. Forest Service officials in Colorado are getting $30 million to deal with the aftermath of the bark-beetle epidemic that have killed about 3.6 million pine trees in the state and southern Wyoming. more...
02/08/2010 4:19pm
DENVER (AP) — Biologists working with the owners of a western Colorado ranch are trying to determine if wolves have settled there.
  02/08/2010 4:23pm
DENVER (AP) — The head of one of the country's largest conservation groups is warning that Colorado is in the “bull's eye of climate change” and says the state's hunters and anglers are seeing firsthand the effects of...
  02/08/2010 11:56am
WALSH, Colo. (AP) — The tiny Walsh School District in Colorado's far southeast corner is getting power from a wind turbine under the Colorado Wind for Schools program.
  02/08/2010 11:52am
A lingering high pressure system has resulted in fewer burn days this year, says Grand County Natural Resources Foreman Jennifer Scott. To protect air quality, Natural Resources schedules burns to coincide with weather conditions favorable for dispersing...
  02/05/2010 10:05am
DENVER (AP) — Big power companies could face higher renewable energy requirements under a plan being proposed by Colorado's governor.
  02/04/2010 10:23am
The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Kremmling Field Office snow surveyors Mark Volt and I took the Feb. 1 snow survey measurements during the last days of January, when the monthly precipitation for the upper Colorado River Basin was...
  02/08/2010 4:47pm
DENVER (AP) — Coloradans reap roughly $6 in benefits for every $1 invested in efforts to keep agricultural land and other open spaces from being developed, a report released Monday suggests.
  02/01/2010 11:54am
ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK — Rocky Mountain National Park plans to use federal stimulus money to replace part of the water system for a lodge once used for employee housing.
  02/02/2010 9:06am
On Jan. 22, the U.S. Forest Service and Colorado State Forest Service announced the results of the 2009 forest health annual aerial survey. The survey revealed that the bark beetle infestation affected about 524,000 new acres in 2009, bringing the total...
  01/29/2010 1:58pm
The Colorado Division of Wildlife is looking for information regarding a lynx that was killed near Green Mountain Reservoir in northern Summit County on Jan. 16 or 17.
  01/28/2010 4:34pm
DENVER, Colorado — Large utility companies in Colorado could be held to a higher standard when it comes to renewable energy.
  01/28/2010 8:22am
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — About 20 Colorado moose have a new address after wildlife authorities moved them from the Steamboat Springs area to western Colorado.
  01/27/2010 1:24pm
The Colorado River Headwaters Chapter of Trout Unlimited will hold a seminar on how to write the most effective comment letter on the Moffat Firming Project at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 27, in the Old Church in Fraser (corner of Eisenhower and Norgren)...
  01/24/2010 4:07pm
DENVER (AP) — Tree-killing beetles have infested another 500,000 acres of pine trees in Colorado and southern Wyoming, boosting the total outbreak to 3.6 million acres in the region, according to a report released Friday.
  01/22/2010 1:06pm
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