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These burns may require park closures and may begin as early as this weekend

Boulder County Parks and Open Space and the sheriff’s office Fire Management Program plan to conduct slash pile burns at several areas this winter.

Residents can weigh in on the County’s new integrated weed management plan

Opinion by Marek Warszawski: “What fuels public frustration and confusion with the river parkway? There’s a glaring example.”

The burn will happen as long as weather conditions allow

Hall Ranch will be closed Wednesday for a prescribed burn and reopen Thursday. 

You have to zoom in pretty close on a map of Colorado before Lyons even shows up. The town, with a population that hovers around 2,000 people, isn’t exactly a tourist hot spot or an epicenter of, well, anything. But we know better.

"There was much excitement in 1903 when it was learned that President Theodore Roosevelt would tour Santa Cruz on May 8, greeting the public before seeing his first redwoods during a picnic at Big Trees Grove (now Henry Cowell state park)," writes Ross Eric Gibson. "The presidential visit was expected to be a boon to business, and a promoter's dream with the national press in town, showing off the attractions of Santa Cruz."

Boulder County is set to conduct prescribed burns at Hall Ranch from Aug. 1 to Sept. 30 as part of the Nelson Loop Prescribed Burn Project.

Boulder County is set to conduct prescribed burns at Hall Ranch from Aug. 1 to Sept. 30 as part of the Nelson Loop Prescribed Burn Project.