Forests

Local News

GOCO awards $165,000 for restoration, conservation projects in La Plata County

Durango, Bayfield and La Plata Open Space Conservancy among grant recipients

December 17, 2025

Local News

Fire and ice: Mitigation and burn piles help fortify against wildfires

urban-wildland interface is changing – so is the approach to wildfire preparedness

December 10, 2025

Local News

U.S. Sen. Bennet votes ‘no’ on Hickenlooper’s ‘Fix Our Forests Act’

Environmental bill advances out of Senate committee

October 25, 2025

Outdoors

Colorado counties, towns step up to fund outdoor workers amid federal budget cuts

Eagle, Gunnison, Pitkin and Summit direct local tax dollars toward backcountry rangers

June 4, 2025

Local News

San Juan Mountains Association receives grant for care of public lands

$299,000 in funding awarded by Great Outdoors Colorado

March 19, 2025

Regional News

More than 150 Forest Service workers in Colorado lose jobs

federal agencies have also seen job cuts

February 19, 2025

Local News

Hermosa Creek federal protections turn 10

‘There was nothing inevitable about this legislation,’ Sen. Michael Bennet recalls

December 23, 2024

Local News

Despite climate threats, fall colors expected in full force

color change peak has begun at high elevations

September 27, 2024

Local News

San Juan National Forest adds 30 acres, renames Falls Creek Conservation Area

property acquisition has been discussed since 2017

June 18, 2024

Local News

How did a wildfire east of Bayfield set land managers up for success?

a tour of Dry Lake Fire burn area, forest partners saw firsthand the benefits of fire

May 24, 2024

Local News

Logging by train

forest service partners with railroad for fuel thinning project near Rockwood

January 17, 2024

Local News

Christmas trees and harvest permits for national forest available

Juan Mountains Association to open Christmas trees for Conservation lot on Nov. 24

November 17, 2023

Local News

Sticks in snow

Snowtography sites in the southwest could foster more climate-resilient forests

October 16, 2023

Local News

Prescribed burns on 27,600 acres of San Juan National Forest scheduled for this fall

Conditions appear to be ‘really promising’

September 5, 2023

Local News

Dry Lake fire 47% contained after fuel reduction

started as a quarter-acre fire grew to 1,400 acres within fire lines

August 7, 2023

Local News

Bill seeks to address housing shortage in mountain and rural communities

would allow Forest Service to ‘lease underutilized administrative sites’ for local needs

May 26, 2023

Local News

Agriculture Secretary stops in Durango, announces $63 million wildfire prevention spending

‘Lion’s share’ of funds will come to Colorado, says Tom Vilsack

May 5, 2023

Local News

Bennet starts a conversation to emphasize forest health

a subcommittee hearing, the senator advocated for fire prevention and forest restoration

March 31, 2023

Regional News

Can Colorado’s seedling tree nursery curb forest fires and disease?

Facility has begun its resurgence with mission to be an ‘epicenter of reforestation’

February 20, 2023

Southwest Life

U.S. to plant 1 billion trees as climate change kills forests

4.1 million burned acres in need of replanting

July 27, 2022

Southwest Life

Southwest Colorado a playground for research scientists

Landscape diversity invites study of desert groundwater, alpine permafrost and prehistoric wildfires

July 14, 2022

Local News

San Juan Mountains Association hosts events with ultrarunners Kilian Jornet, Dakota Jones

Conservation group will guide trail work in Silverton ahead of the Hardrock 100

July 12, 2022

Local News

How citizen scientists are testing our streams and rivers for contamination

Mountain Studies Institute, Fort Lewis College partner to measure E. coli in San Juan National Forest’s waterways

July 6, 2022

Local News

Public land agencies remove fire restrictions ahead of July 4

prompt San Juan National Forest, BLM to rescind Stage 1 measures

July 1, 2022