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On Friday, the National Park Service announced that Blue Mesa Reservoir would be closed west of Middle Bridge to all boating ...
More than a week after lightning ignited wildfires, thousands of acres of Colorado’s Black Canyon of the Gunnison National ...
The South Rim Fire burning inside Colorado's Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park has destroyed several structures and ...
Initial assessments show that the visitor center and entrance booth survived the fire, but other buildings were destroyed or ...
A lightning-sparked fire burning 4,227 acres in Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park is now 14% contained, with crews confident they’ve halted its spread. While key buildings like the visitor ...
According to the National Park Service, the facility management building, the Western National Parks warehouse, the welding ...
Two wildfires sparked by lightning have been burning on the North and South rims of Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park in Montrose County. The larger blaze, the South Rim Fire, has grown to 4, ...
Colorado’s largest lake has that in spades. The west end of Blue Mesa along U.S. 50 has been closed to watercraft for the duration of the Scoopers’ work, giving the planes plenty of room to do their ...
An air-quality alert remains in effect until Saturday at 9 a.m. for Mesa and Montrose counties due to lingering wildfire ...
Drought, a warming climate and decades of firefighting policies that suppressed natural fires have turned many grasslands and ...
The fire has burned 4,227 acres of land. Stuart West, the Superintendent of the park, said only about 12% of the park has burned. However, he said the part that was burned included about 80% of the ...
Crews are fighting five western slope blazes, including the fast-growing Turner Gulch Fire. See the latest map of the ...