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Vast scale of wildfire threats to Colorado watersheds far exceeds funding

  • Chase Woodruff

High on a ridgeline near the headwaters of the Yampa River, a ditch dug more than a century ago snakes for miles through the rugged terrain of the Routt National Forest, shepherding water from the Yamcolo Reservoir across a 9,000-foot-high mesa to an area south of the town of Yampa, in southern Routt County. About […]

Idaho

Crews building transmission line use equipment to help fight wildfires near Oregon-Idaho order

  • Clark Corbin

Crews building the Boardman to Hagerman transmission line recently repositioned their crews and heavy equipment to help the effort to fight wildfires along the Oregon-Idaho border, company officials said.  Crews and companies with Quanta Services, MG Dyess, PJ Helicopters, Summit Line Construction and Probst Electric all contributed to the effort to help fight wildfires, officials […]

Idaho

Australia and New Zealand fire personnel arriving in Boise to help fight US wildfires

  • Clark Corbin

Up to 250 fire specialists from Australia and New Zealand are arriving in Boise this week to help fight wildfires across the Western United States.  The incoming fire specialists began arriving Tuesday, and will participate in orientation and national situation briefings Friday and Saturday at the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, officials with the […]