Colorado transportation officials temporarily closed Interstate 70 west of Vail on Wednesday for several hours because of a wildfire. The Red Canyon Fire burned 10 acres in Eagle County. At 5:15 p ...

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 ...

A wildfire last summer that burned 700 acres near the popular Twin Lakes recreation area near Leadville was determined to have been caused by a campfire that had not been properly extinguished. Across ...

In the 23 years, the tool cataloged over 25,000 forest management projects on 1.1 million acres of Colorado forest. The majority — 900,577 acres — were on land managed by the U.S. Forest Service.