While scary and catastrophic, experts stress that wildfires are a natural—even expected—process. Much of the landscape of western Colorado and southern Utah is expected to have a “mixed severity fire” in wooded areas…
Colorado’s Pine Gulch Fire officially became the state’s largest documented wildfire on Aug. 27. The fire has consumed over 139,007 acres north of Grand Junction, 118 miles from Moab. While the fire is…
Grizzly Creek Fire Kyle Jones was there the moment that what he calls “the nightmare” started. On Aug. 10, Jones was floating down the Colorado River through Glenwood Canyon with a group of…
Interstate 70 will remain closed between Glenwood Springs and Gypsum, Colo., as the Grizzly Creek Fire rages away uncontrolled. The fire, which began on July 31, grew in size again over the weekend and…
The Bureau of Land Management Helitack crew spotted the lightning-caused fire at Moab’s popular Ken’s Lake Recreation Area on June 13, just yards from their heli-base as well as the newly completed Fire…
On June 13, a lightning strike ignited a fire near Ken’s Lake that grew to be 3.6 acres before wildland firefighters contained and exterminated the blaze, declaring it “out” the following day. Moab…
