Doug Leyva News Today

If you are feeling a bit more adventurous or strapped for cash this year, cutting down a holiday tree might be the way to go.

GLENWOOD SPRINGS — To no surprise this journey begins in a frigid pickup truck cab. A respectable snowstorm just enveloped the Roaring Fork Valley earlier this week. There’s snow everywhere.   Sipping warm coffee tumblers near 8...

To no surprise this journey begins in a frigid pickup truck cab. A respectable snowstorm just enveloped the Roaring Fork Valley earlier this week. There’s snow everywhere.   Sipping warm coffee tumblers near 8 a.m. Thursday...

As a small crew worked last week cutting down timber in a spruce-fir forest south of Collbran on Grand Mesa, a rain cloud scudded overhead and moistened the scene.

It was a perfect plan.