Horses and livestock are an important part of Colorado's agriculture. With wildfires popping up on every mountain top in the state, those evacuated have to worry about their animal's safety. For some they are pets, for others they are their living. Don't you understand Colorado? We are hearing on the news all the time about how people are donating things like hay, water and grain. Why isn't the government helping? Cows, horses and pigs are big animals. The shelters housing them are struggling with feeding them all. Not only this, but for those who's homes have been destroyed in the fires, they no longer have a place to house the animals. what happens to them then?

The Highpark fire has burned 58,770 acres, even as the winds die down. Plus the other wildfires are adding to the number of acres that we have lost, and the ones we are going to loose. Along with the strong winds and hot dry air, the pine beetles are eating up the last of the un - burned trees. The wildfires are pushing them to eat up different areas of trees, and the dead ones are creating a "great" (not for us) fire starter. There is strong thunderstorms coming our way. This will heavly erode the burn areas, causing flash flood and mud slide warnings. First the evacuies have to worry about their house being burned, then they have to worry aboout it flooding or being sucked away in a mud slide.

I thank those of you who sign.