Prescribed Burn

Governor Polis signs a bill to protect educators from pressure to remove books from school libraries, while Cortez renews its Urban Forestry program. Other updates include health-related resignations in Arizona, a proposed tobacco tax delay in the Navajo Nation, and wildfire mitigation efforts across the West.

Federal crews are using prescribed burns near Aspen to reduce wildfire risk and improve wildlife habitat. But staffing cuts in the Forest Service and funding issues could jeopardize these efforts.

The Mount Weber Fire burning southwest of Mancos is now at 50 percent containment as a team of scientists and emergency responders say that Colorado’s wildfire mitigation efforts have some flaws and need reform; Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser says three officers and two paramedics have been indicted on manslaughter and other charges in the death of Elijah McClain.

Colorado lawmakers have approved a thirty-four-billion-dollar budget for the next fiscal year that reverses many drastic cuts made due to the pandemic.…

Democrats at the Colorado state house have unveiled three bills they say will prevent gun violence in the wake of last month’s mass shooting in Boulder.…

The state of Colorado will be getting an additional 8th congressional seat beginning with the 2022 election. The US Forest Service did not begin…

Colorado will not have to take certain steps addressing low academic performance at public schools this year.Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed two…

The Bureau of Land Management’s Tres Rios Field Office began a prescribed burn today about seven miles east of Dove Creek.The Town of Mancos has announced…

Colorado is ramping up vaccine shipments to clinics across the state that Gov. Polis says will become mass-vaccination sites.Colorad COVID-19…