There are more than 650,000 acres in the Eagle-Holy Cross Ranger District but there aren’t a lot of people to care for it. That’s where Front Country Rangers come in. Given the perpetually cash-strapped.
Our cool, wet June is mostly a memory. Now, warm, dry and windy conditions are starting to affect fire danger in the valley, but not yet to a great degree. Garfield and Mesa counties, along.
The Front Country Rangers, a small crew of U.S. Forest Service employees and interns, stay pretty busy in the summer. District Ranger Leanne Veldhuis and Trish Barrere, both in the Eagle-Holy Cross Ranger District, provided.
As they collected nearly 4,000 pounds of trash, 544 bags of dog poo and 300 piles of human waste, the Front Country Ranger Program in the White River National Forest made the backcountry experience a…