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06/15/2003: "Forest-thinning efforts face funding gaps, public concern"
DENVER - One of the biggest forest experiments in Colorado history is now underway as state and federal land agencies size up huge swaths of the Front Range for timber-cutting programs to reduce fire danger and restore forest health.
Forest managers are evaluating virtually every tract of the foothills from Colorado Springs to the Wyoming line as they try to protect homes and watersheds from devastating blazes like those that tore through the region last summer. (Denver Post)
