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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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