There some good news concerning forests in the western states.  For the second year in a row there seems to be fewer trees damaged from a beetles outbreak.  Forest Service officials say that 3.8 million acres with beetle-killed trees were surveyed last year and that’s down by more than half from 2009.  One of the [...]

Five snowmobilers are safe after going missing overnight in Routt County. The Steamboat Pilot says just as three search and rescue teams prepared to set out after them Monday morning, the men returned safely to a parking lot. Apparently the men got stuck in nearly 30 inches of fresh snow that had accumulated during the [...]