DENVER (CBS4)- A bill is up for debate at the U.S. Capitol to permanently protect nearly 3 million acres of land across Colorado, California, Washington and Arizona. More than 1 million of that land ...

Rep. Diana DeGette’s Colorado Wilderness Act — part of a larger package of public lands protections including the CORE Act that recently passed the U.S. House of Representatives — has been more than ...

A 14-year-old boy who was living off the grid with his mother and his aunt in the Colorado wilderness was down to 40 pounds when he died, according to autopsy reports. The boy, his mother Rebecca ...

The 14-year-old son, Rebecca Vance, Trevala Jara, Christine Vance and Ms Jara’s husband, days before the trio left for the Colorado wilderness (Trevala Jara) Colorado Springs resident Rebecca Vance ...

The bodies of Andrew Porter of Asheville, North Carolina, and Ian Stasko of Salt Lake City, Utah — both 25 years old — were found a couple of miles away from a trailhead in Conejos County on Sept. 18.

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We in Colorado are lucky. Our state has 44 congressionally designated wilderness areas covering over 3.7 million acres, including three in Eagle County — the west side of the Eagles Nest, the Holy ...

DENVER (KDVR) — An out-of-state hunter who got lost from his group in a northern Colorado wilderness area survived two nights during an “intense early season snowstorm” before he was safely rescued, ...

At just shy of half a million acres, the Weminuche Wilderness in southwestern Colorado is the largest in the state, the most remote and now is slightly larger than it was yesterday. This past winter, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... “Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.” – Edward Abbey For most Americans, true wilderness is something not easily reached. In ...