Environment

No more tubing, and now, no more fishing in Steamboat Springs for the foreseeable future.

In Colorado, high temperatures and extremely low humidity are feeding destructive wildfires, forcing the evacuation of thousands of residents from endangered areas that include popular tourist sites. According to The Denver Post, the Waldo Canyon fire "has burned 3,446 acres and remains zero percent contained."

Fires are also raging in Utah, where the AP reports that "hundreds of residents evacuated ahead of a 39-square-mile blaze."

Officials have declared that the Rocky Mountain area has moved to preparedness level 5, which is the most severe on the scale.