According to data reviewed and analyzed by Colorado State University researchers, Colorado's forest as a collective is now emitting more carbon into the atmosphere than it is absorbing. Data collected ...

Over one-third of Colorado is forested acreage — 24 million acres of the state’s 66.48 million acres — managed by a variety of local, state and federal entities. The Colorado State Forest Service and ...

Forest Service seeks economic development and wildfire-fighting routes, but environmental advocates are furious The Trump administration Monday reversed the “roadless rule” protecting 30% of National ...

As wildfire season picks up in Colorado, Fire Chief Brad White, of Grand Fire Protection District No. 1, says he’s worried “there’s not a lot of extra help to be had this summer.” Mass layoffs and ...

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has announced $8.5 million in Forest Restoration and Wildfire Risk Mitigation grants for 35 projects in 24 counties — including several projects on the Western Slope. The ...

"This is a typical bug-kill, blow-down mess that should have been harvested 20 years ago," says Mark Morgan as he surveys a tract of lodgepole pine on a slope of national forest land west of Fort ...

Federal, state and local backcountry management agencies in seven Colorado counties have started to close off 94,900 acres of Colorado forest to recreation sport shooting. Instead, they are funneling ...

Jul 6, 2025 Jul 6, 2025 Updated Aug 4, 2025 Don Hardin's hillside was largely cleared of trees killed by the mountain pine beetle in April with help from his neighbors but now, in early July, an ...

Corrections & clarifications: This story has been updated to include Colorado Department of Labor and Employment estimates of the number of federal employees, to clarify which employees are tracked by ...