The fire, planned to burn up to 350 acres each day from Wednesday through Friday west of Monument, is a stopgap effort to reduce the risk of dangerous unplanned fires in an area that has seen both a build up of ecological fuel sources and nearby residential development.
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The famed Pikes Peak in Colorado is getting trashed and is under assault by reckless users, causing resource damage and environmental impacts, so the agencies that manage it are looking for a solution from Colorado Parks and Wildlife.
The lyrics to “America the Beautiful” were inspired by a trek to the summit of Pikes Peak via prairie wagon in 1893. But when Katharine Lee Bates penned a poem called “Pikes Peak,” which became an American anthem after it was set to music in 1910, she could scarcely have