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The Townsend Ranger District plans to treat about 30 acres in the Crow Creek/Slim Sam unit in the Elkhorn Mountains. The Rocky Mountain Ranger District plans to burn about 116 acres in an Elk ...

Despite uncertainty regarding staffing at national parks, officials say Rocky Mountain National Park will celebrate a normal ...

A 45-year-old New Jersey man injured his ankle while hiking on icy terrain near Devil’s Acre lean-to on Hunter Mountain on April 18. Rangers and members of the Lexington and Prattsville Fire ...

As home to Rocky Mountain National Park, Grand County is a great place to celebrate National Park Week. For 2025, the ...

Have you ever asked a national park ranger their origin story? Let me tell you mine. My journey, like that of so many other ...

Cpl. Allen Godin of the Rocky Mountain Rangers shows Kamloops residents Jeremy LeBlanc and his two children — son Madyx, 7, and daughter Izabelle, 9 — how to set up and dismount a C6 machine gun.

The hiker first reported being lost near the Mink Hollow Trail approach to Sugarloaf Mountain, a steep, rocky ascent leading ... s information to a forest ranger for follow up.