News - Pike National Forest
By Rocky Mountian News Fire crews announced the Oxyoke Fire west of Castle Rock was 100 percent contained at about 6 p.m.
By Hazlehurst, John During the last 10 years, mountain pine beetles have killed more than 1.5 million acres of lodgepole pines statewide. Summit County, home to Colorado's ski industry, has been particularly hard hit.
By Bill McKeown, The Gazette, Colorado Springs, Colo. Mar. 28--The fire danger in the southern Front Range mountains and on prairie grasslands will be higher than normal the next 90 days, the U.S. Forest Service says.
By Bill McKeown, The Gazette, Colorado Springs, Colo. Mar. 27--The fire danger in the southern Front Range mountains and on prairie grasslands will be higher than normal the next 90 days, the U.S. Forest Service says.