The day started at 10 a.m. around a truck bed fully stocked with boxes of discount croissants, a bag of clementines, and a stack of Incident Action Plan packets. On Sunday morning, U.S. Forest Service ...

A federal firefighting team believes conditions will be ripe Friday for a prescribed burn on up to 1,200 acres in the backyard of Aspen while acknowledging nerves are a bit on edge for some members of ...

Significantly reduced staff means significantly reduced capacity by the U.S. Forest Service, which will have noticeable impacts in the Roaring Fork Valley this summer. Kevin Warner, district ranger ...

Twelve years after the Aspen Fire roared over the Catalina Mountains, once-blackened slopes are showing expanses of bright green new growth — a heartening sign that the forest is on the road to ...

The current wave of infestations of Rocky Mountain forests began in Canada, where it has killed off as much as 50,000 square miles of forest, and is rapidly spreading south. Some experts believe the ...