Colorado hunting outfitter pays $500,000 to settle wildfire ignition allegations
Jackson Outfitters, a hunting company based in southwestern Colorado, paid $500,000 to settle allegations that it sparked a national forest wildfire in 2019, federal officials said.
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Hunting outfitter to pay $500K to resolve allegations of fault in wildfire ignition
The fire burned approximately 850 acres of the Uncompahgre National Forest in October 2019. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado, the Cow Creek Fire was started ...
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Medicine Bow-Routt Forest supervisor retires
Titled “next chapter,” an email sent by U.S. Forest Supervisor Russ Bacon last week announced he is retiring as supervisor of ...
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Forest Service Trims Colorado Logging Project After Conservation Groups Object
The Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre, and Gunnison National Forest issued its final decision Thursday for the Taylor Park Vegetation Management Project, southeast of Crested Butte. The Forest Service agreed to ...
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Doctor Park Trail closed until Memorial Day
The Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests’ Gunnison Ranger District reminds visitors that National Forest System Trail #424–Doctor Park trail closed to all uses on March 1 and will ...
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Forest Service Proposes Unprecedented Logging of Mature, Old-Growth Forests in Western Colorado
DELTA, Colo.— Conservation groups filed objections this week to the U.S. Forest Service’s proposed final management plan for the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison national forests in western ...
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Forest Service employee uncertainty for CB area
The original employee cutbacks come as a result of budget constraints for the overall USFS anticipated during budget time ...