Author: RACHAEL WRIGHT Special to The Denver Gazette
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Colorado ranchers scramble to move cattle as Elk, Lee fires burn in Rio Blanco County
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“The fires are out of hand”
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Cattle rustling — the ‘easy crime’ — decimating Western Slope ranchers
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The grass crunches underfoot and dust billows in dense clouds as a truck and trailer speed out of public lands in Montrose County. The trailer is full of calves lowing plaintively. The driver gives the Western salute, one or two fingers raised as a four-by-four rumbles past. The truck turns on to the highway, nose pointed…