KEYSTONE — State Rep. Christine Scanlan is headed to Washington, D.C., this week to meet with members of Congress and the U.S. Forest Service about getting more help to battle the state’s bark beetle epidemic.
The Democrat from Dillon is vice chairwoman of the state interim committee on wildfires. Forest and community officials fear the huge […]

SUMMIT COUNTY — Colorado voters will be asked to divert oil and gas taxes from water projects and forest-health programs to pay for Interstate 70 improvements under an initiative approved for the November ballot.
Amendment 52 aims to redistribute as much as $90 million in severance taxes generated annually from drilling and other extractive industries, such […]