According to local online newspapers that cover Colorado Springs, Colorado, on November 2, 2012, there has been 1 house rebuilt.
Congratulations.
Meanwhile, there is a long road ahead.
High-end estimates of the number of houses destroyed in the Colorado Springs area resultant of wildfire the last week of June 2012, was about 350 houses.

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About $31.9 billion dollars it has been assessed went to natural resources and the environment in fiscal year 2008 as a federal spending figure. [source: http://www.publicagenda.org/charts/federal-spending-environment]
That was 4 years ago.

There are different ways of looking at the spending picture.  Less money can be spent on environmental efforts and causes through more cost effective mechanisms to accomplish environmental goals.

Therefore, just because the environmental sector was affected b...
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