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October 2020: 555 2 The wildfire ran more than 100,000 acres in one day and jumped over the Continental Divide, prompting an evacuation of the entire town of Estes Park. [43] 3. Pine Gulch: Mesa, Garfield: 139,007 July 2020: 1 0 Briefly became the largest wildfire in Colorado history. [44] 4. Hayman: Douglas, Jefferson, Park, Teller: 138,114 ...
The Colorado Rockies forests is a temperate coniferous forest ecoregion of the United States. This ecoregion is located in the highest ranges of the Rocky Mountains , in central and western Colorado , northern New Mexico and southeastern Wyoming , and experiences a dry continental climate.
Climate data for Conifer, Colorado Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year Record high °F (°C) 65 (18) 70 (21) 72 (22) 78 (26)
Most conifers are monoecious, but some are subdioecious or dioecious; all are wind-pollinated. Conifer seeds develop inside a protective cone called a strobilus. The cones take from four months to three years to reach maturity, and vary in size from 2 to 600 millimetres (1 ⁄ 8 to 23 + 5 ⁄ 8 in) long.
The Rocky Mountains within Colorado contain 54 peaks that are 14,000 ft (4,300 m) or higher, known as fourteeners. [10] The mountains are timbered with conifers and aspen to the tree line, at an elevation of about 12,000 ft (3,700 m) in southern Colorado to about 10,500 ft (3,200 m) in northern Colorado; above this only alpine vegetation grows ...
A 62-year-old woman was killed in the fire. [13] [14] This fire burned over 87,250 acres (136 sq mi; 353 km 2), making it the second-largest fire in recorded Colorado history by area burned, after the Hayman Fire of 2002. [15] It destroyed at least 259 homes, surpassing the number consumed by the Fourmile Canyon fire of 2010.
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It was established on July 1, 1908, by President Theodore Roosevelt and named for the Arapaho tribe of Native Americans which previously inhabited the Colorado Eastern Plains. The forest includes part of the high Rockies and river valleys in the upper watershed of the Colorado River and South Platte River .