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Danny Showers, with Colorado Forestry and Fire Mitigation, uses a self loading log trailer with grapples to pick up large logs taken down during a fire mitigation and fuel management program at Meyer Ranch Park on September 20, 2022 in Morisson, Colorado. In the winter of 2021, Jeffco Open Space began conducting wildfire mitigation and forest restoration. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)

抖阴ap: Congress’ Fix Our Forests Act will remove environmental checks that keep wildfires from spreading

February 22, 2025 at 5:01 a.m.

This isn鈥檛 just raking pine needles. The Fix Our Forests Act includes industrial-scale commercial logging and heavy livestock grazing. By removing the environmental checks it bypasses the critical oversight.

Signs warn hikers of cattle grazing in open land on the Shanahan Trail in Boulder, Colorado on June 19, 2024. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)

抖阴ap: Sharing the trail with cows? The land, the wildlife and the taxpayers pay the price

July 5, 2024 at 6:06 a.m.

"While it may be something we鈥檝e become accustomed to, it抖阴ap not natural, and there are hidden costs of these grazing programs 鈥� land degradation, wildlife killing, and millions in taxpayer...

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