Author: RACHAEL WRIGHT Special to The Denver Gazette
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Colorado ranchers scramble to move cattle as Elk, Lee fires burn in Rio Blanco County
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save “The fires are out of hand,” said cowboy Lee Burton of MM Cattle Company in a spare five minutes, as he raced to move cattle to safer pastures. “It’s a huge deal for this community…
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South Rim fire at Gunnison National Park only 14% contained
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Early the morning of July 10, a dry lightning storm moved across southwestern Colorado and ignited 10 fires — three in the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, near Montrose. Bureau of Land Management’s firefighters were able to swiftly contain all but one of the…
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Cattle rustling — the ‘easy crime’ — decimating Western Slope ranchers
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The grass crunches underfoot and dust billows in dense clouds as a truck and trailer speed out of public lands in Montrose County. The trailer is full of calves lowing plaintively. The driver gives the Western salute, one or two fingers raised as a four-by-four rumbles…