About two-thirds of Colorado land is managed by the federal government. And there are a lot fewer federal workers managing those acres as of this week.

The National Park Service is entering uncharted territory. President Donald Trump's administration abruptly fired 1,000 employees from the agency last week, accounting for about 5 percent of its workforce.

The National Park Service has been authorized to hire seasonal workers this year at Colorado National Monument after a previous freeze on those hires. “We just heard (Wednesday) officially that we are able to bring on seasonals,

The Trump administration is restoring jobs for dozens of National Park Service employees fired amid government-wide reductions and hiring nearly 3,000 additional seasonal workers, following an uproar over an aggressive plan to downsize the agency.

Colorado lawmakers and communities are fighting back against President Donald Trump’s layoffs of at least 3,400 U.S. Forest Service employees across the country. Officials have warned that the president’s executive order pushing “large-scale reductions

With over 24 million acres - over a third of Colorado - held as public land, the news last week of mass firings in some of the agencies tasked with managing it has prompted concerns about the capacity of remaining employees to regulate use and prevent deadly wildfires.

Voters "weren’t factoring in some of the changes that we’re seeing now" when they picked Donald Trump as president, pollster says.