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Fires Can’t Blacken Colorado Springs

by | Nov 4, 2014 | Uncategorized

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The Colorado city of Colorado Springs hasn’t been lucky when it comes to forest fires. The Black Forest Fire of 2013 and the Waldo Canyon Fire of 2012 were particularly destructive. Sometimes I blame all of this on ol’ Zeb Pike, whose namesake mountain looms over Colorado Springs. “Nothing Pike tried to do was easy and most of his luck was bad,” wrote Donald Jackson, the editor for  The Journals of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, covering Pike’s frontier expeditions during 1805-07. But j


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