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Smoke will be visible in the Roaring Fork and Crystal valleys on Wednesday from the Avalanche Creek Prescribed Fire, seven miles south of Carbondale, according to the U.S. Forest Service. Firefighters plan to burn up...

Smoke from a planned fire will be visible in the Roaring Fork and Crystal valleys on Wednesday, according to a news release from the Upper Colorado River Interagency Fire Management Unit.  The Avalanche Creek Prescribed...

Open Space board approves changes to parking, access trails

Aspen Journalism The Crystal River flows through the town of Marble just after its confluence with YuleCreek. Gunnison County, Pitkin County and local environmental groups want to see a marble mining company mitigate its illegal relocation of a creek by improving downstream riparian habitat. (Heather Sackett/Aspen Journalism) MARBLE — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has denied local groups’ request for a public hearing in the case of a marble quarry that violated the Clean Water Act. In a ...

Aspen Journalism Vehicles and machinery sit outside the entrances to the marble galleries of the Pride of America Mine in January. Local governments and environmental groups want the quarry operators to undertake mitigation projects to compensate for moving a creek, which violated the Clean Water Act. Mike Stevens/EcoFlight Local governments and environmental groups don’t think a proposal submitted by a mining company goes far enough to restore the damage done when the company diverted a sect...