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State Land Board

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2012

    Lower North Fork Fire started by prescribed burn, Forest Service apologizes

    The U.S. Forest Service is now admitting that the Lower North Fork Fire near Conifer, which appears to have led to at least two casualties (one woman is still missing), was started by a prescribed burn that got out of control. Meanwhile, Governor John Hickenlooper has suspended such burns until aft ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 17, 2012

    Rocky Flats land swap deal for Jefferson Parkway going nowhere fast

    Last week, if all had gone according to plan, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service would have been finalizing the exchange of a 300-foot right-of-way comprising approximately 100 acres on the eastern border of the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge for a 617-acre parcel on the southwestern corner of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2012

    Rocky Flats land swap on the rocks after Golden files suit to stop it

    Jacob Smith.​Last month it looked like the last roadblocks would be removed to a Rocky Flats land swap that would make 600 acres currently owned by the State Land Board on the southwest corner of the former plutonium-processing plant part of what's now a federal wildlife refuge -- and the U.S. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2009

    Wake-Up Call: Hold your horses!

    ​Twenty-five years ago, the Department of Defense took over 235,000 acres of ranchland in southeastern Colorado -- the largest condemnation of private property in the country. And the Army's not done yet. Six years ago, word surfaced that the feds would try to add another 400,000 acres to the ... More >>

  • News

    March 14, 2002

    Spin Cycle

    A page-one story about Bill Owens was wrong. So why isn't the governor angry?

  • News

    December 14, 2000

    The Whistle Stops Here

    Creede will do anything to keep Don Shank's railroad from chugging to town.

  • News

    September 21, 2000

    So Many Sex Offenders, So Little Time

    Jeffco's search for a place to put its juvenile sex offenders is going nowhere fast.

  • News

    April 30, 1998

    Defusing a Controversy

    A piece of new technology bails the state and feds out of an explosive lawsuit over the Lowry Bombing Range.

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