“We don’t grow trees in Colorado, we grow water,” said McCombs, the state forester. To get the work of forest management done, the Forest Service relies on a patchwork of contracts with the state, ...

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 ...

Aerial survey data show that this native insect is killing trees on more than 5,000 acres of ponderosa pine forests across ...

Jul 6, 2025 Jul 6, 2025 Updated Aug 4, 2025 Don Hardin's hillside was largely cleared of trees killed by the mountain pine beetle in April with help from his neighbors but now, in early July, an ...

People living northeast of Aspen are still under mandatory evacuation because of a wildfire burning near the Eagle and Pitkin ...

Due to an increase in bear activity, all campers at Gore Creek Campground near Vail must use hard-sided campers or trailers, ...

The Colorado congressional delegation in Washington, D.C., is calling on the U.S. Forest Service to continue partnerships with Rocky Mountain communities amid the agency’s hiring freeze on seasonal ...

The U.S. Forest Service is considering lifting a two-year, blanket closure of caves and abandoned mines in Colorado and several other states after having imposed it in an effort to protect bats from a ...

Colorado’s Democratic members of Congress are calling on the U.S. Forest Service to prioritize wildfire mitigation efforts as the West faces a historically low snowpack that is raising concerns about ...

A Navy veteran who worked for the U.S. Forest Service in Colorado was recently laid off in the recent nationwide federal workforce cuts impacting Americans. CBS News Colorado spoke to her about her ...

About two-thirds of Colorado land is managed by the federal government. And there are a lot fewer federal workers managing those acres as of this week. A Valentine’s Day slashing of federal jobs by ...