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Outdoors and wildfire - Crowley County
Crowley County grassfire safety starts close to the house
On Crowley County's dry, windy plains, the first wildfire defense is the cleared space and clutter you control right around the house.
Read note ->Water and land - El Paso County
Wildfire can change El Paso County well and septic safety
After a wildfire near El Paso County homes, a well may need testing and a damaged septic system should go out of use until checked.
Read note ->Home and property - Jefferson County
Jeffco's WUI map can change building permit homework
In unincorporated Jeffco, a foothills lot inside the wildland-urban interface can carry wildfire construction rules on top of ordinary zoning.
Read note ->Home and property - Rio Blanco County
Living next to forest and BLM land means thinking about defensible space
Many Rio Blanco County homes sit where private land meets forest and public range, the wildland-urban interface, where defensible space is worth planning before fire season.
Read note ->Home and property - Jackson County
On a North Park property, defensible space is work to do before fire season
Homes set among the forests and grass around North Park sit in wildfire country, where defensible space is something to plan before there is any smoke.
Read note ->Outdoors and wildfire - Teller County
The Crags Trail: Teller County's granite window onto Pikes Peak
A short, family-friendly hike from Crags Campground near Divide threads granite spires below Pikes Peak, and the same trailhead launches the strenuous back route toward the summit.
Read note ->Outdoors and wildfire - Montezuma County
Wildfire has shaped much of the land at Mesa Verde
Large lightning-driven wildfires have burned much of Mesa Verde National Park over the years, which is why this dry pinyon-juniper country is a real fire landscape, not a tame one.
Read note ->Outdoors and wildfire - Elbert County
Gambel oak thickets are a wildfire ladder fuel in Elbert County
Where Elbert County's grasslands meet pine, dense Gambel oak can carry a grass fire up into the trees, so the state forest service treats it as a fuel to manage near homes.
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