Extreme fire danger in the southwest has prompted federal land managers to take the unusual step of indefinitely closing public access to an area of national forests larger than Connecticut.

(AP) — A sprawling forest closed because of extreme fire danger in southwestern Colorado will re-open Thursday after getting steady rain. An announcement from the San Juan National Forest ...

DURANGO — A sprawling forest closed because of extreme fire danger in southwestern Colorado will re-open Thursday after getting steady rain. An announcement from the San Juan National Forest ...

A wildfire in Colorado that has burned over 22,000 acres is forcing San Juan National Forest to close its doors to visitors and employees. The forest, which covers more than 1.8 million acres in ...

(CBS4) - Firefighters rushed to a new wildfire -- this one burning in the San Juan National Forest. The Ice Fire is about 320 acres as of Monday night. "Crews are securing and protecting South ...

Montezuma County Sheriff Steve Nowlin addresses a crowd gathered in Mancos, Colorado, upset over a fence erected by survivors of a polygamist sect within the San Juan National Forest outside of ...

San Juan National Forest officials in southwestern Colorado planned to close hundreds of miles of trails and thousands of miles of back roads to hikers, bikers, horseback riders and campers as ...

San Juan National Forest officials in southwestern Colorado planned to close hundreds of miles of trails and thousands of miles of back roads to hikers, bikers, horseback riders and campers as ...

More than 2,800 square miles of public land in southwestern Colorado will be closed ... Officials plan to bar most entry to the San Juan National Forest starting Tuesday to prevent the possibility ...

David Neely spent seven years in Washington D.C. in policy roles The San Juan National Forest, which encompasses ... of Vermont to Vail ski resort in Colorado. “My plan in going to D.C ...

San Juan National Forest Supervisor David Neely will retire ... A career Forest Service leader, Neely came to Southwest Colorado most recently from a policy position with the agency in Washington ...

A wildfire in Colorado that has burned over 22,000 acres is forcing San Juan National Forest to close its doors to visitors and employees. The forest, which covers more than 1.8 million acres in ...