CDOT Special Message: The Colorado Department of Transportation reopened US 160 over Wolf Creek Pass this morning at 6:00 am. If fire activity warrants, the highway could be re-closed, so travelers are urged to check road conditions at www.cotrip.org for updated road information.
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For those curious about the global warming, bark beetle, forest fire connection please see:
"The Changing Face Of Our Forests - bark beetle and global warming"
and
"A citizen's review of the 'San Juan Bark Beetles and Watersheds Workshop'"
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http://www.earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=81485
Thick smoke billows across the landscape in these digital photographs of the western United States. Both photographs were taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) on June 19, 2013.
