Western Slope farmers and ranchers still tallying the cost of summer wildfires

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A woman in a cowboy hat sits in a side by side ATV, gazing into the distance
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Some of Mesa County rancher Janie VanWinkle's U.S. Forest Service grazing lands are only easily accessible by ATV or on horseback.

A wide angle photo of a western landscape burned by wildfire
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Barbed wire fencing wrapped around a burned stake
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A woman in a cowboy hat crouches down to examine destroyed fencing amid a fire ravaged landscape.
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