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Colorado forest lovers brace as feds rev up multi-billion-dollar “wildfire crisis” logging across West

Forest lovers decry “devastation,” favor better home protection, and ecologists warn of “sterilized landscapes”

A hiker makes her way along ...
A hiker makes her way along the Shadow Pine Loop trail at Flying J Ranch Park in Conifer where fire mitigation projects have taken place on Sept. 20, 2022. The Flying J Ranch Park was part of a forest restoration and wildfire mitigation project. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)
Bruce Finley of The Denver Post
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Lodgepole pines grow thick in mountain foothill forests southwest of Denver. Government-backed loggers recently cut down thousands. And this left a hole across several acres of the popular Flying J Ranch Park that, close up, looks to visitors more like mowing than thinning.
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