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Boost to Colorado Snowpack May Lessen Wildfire Risk

2013-04-28 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate Central: As recently as late March it appeared that most of the West, including Colorado, was headed for a long, and tinderbox-dry spring and summer, with the effects of a long-running drought becoming ever more apparent in the form of dwindling water supplies and destructive wildfires. Many officials feared a repeat of last year's disastrous wildfire season, when Colorado saw its most destructive wildfire on record strike the Colorado Springs area. And then winter finally arrived, in April, when the weather...

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Livestock Groups Rally For Wildfire Legislation

2013-04-16 22:27:00| Beef

Beef Producer Andy Groseta, an Arizona rancher and president of the Arizona Cattle Growers Association, lobbies on behalf of ranchers on the topic of wildfire management. read more

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Feds Project Climate Change Will Double Wildfire Risk in Forests

2013-04-04 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Denver Post: The hotter, drier climate will transform Rocky Mountain forests, unleashing wider wildfires and insect attacks, federal scientists warn in a report for Congress and the White House. The U.S. Forest Service scientists project that, by 2050, the area burned each year by increasingly severe wildfires will at least double, to around 20 million acres nationwide. Some regions, including western Colorado, are expected to face up to a fivefold increase in acres burned if climate change continues on...

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Catastrophic Wildfire Prevention Act Reintroduced

2013-03-26 15:01:00| Beef

Public Lands Council The Catastrophic Wildfire Prevention Act of 2013 (H.R. 1345), a bill that would facilitate an expedited process to reduce hazardous fuel loads on federal lands through livestock grazing and timber harvesting, has been reintroduced in the House with bipartisan support by Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ). read more

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Evacuation orders lifted as Colorado wildfire eases

2013-03-17 01:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Evacuation orders were lifted on Saturday for hundreds of Colorado residents forced to flee their homes due to a wind-driven wildfire in a canyon northwest of Denver, as firefighters made progress in containing the blaze, officials said. Calmer winds, higher humidity levels and cooler temperatures allowed firefighters to cut containment lines around 45 percent of the so-called Galena Fire, said Nick Christensen, spokesman for the Larimer County Sheriff's Office. The blaze signaled an early start...

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