Chad Stewart, supervisor of the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests, has described the recently released revised land management plan for the forests as one that strikes “the best ...

More than 750 people sent letters last spring to the U.S. Forest Service with comments about the agency’s multiyear effort to write new long-term management plans for the three national forests in the ...

U.S. Forest Service staff hold a public field trip in the Telephone Gap project area in 2021. Photo courtesy of the U.S. Forest Service After years of debate, the U.S. Forest Service issued a draft ...

Under the plan, around 20% of the forest will be designated as an “old forest management area” and be allowed to develop without any human intervention.

ENTERPRISE — After years of working to revise the Blue Mountains National Forests Land Management Plan, about 60 people turned out Monday, July 21, to take advantage of an opportunity to air their ...