You can see it in their faces — pursed lips, creased foreheads, steely eyes.

You can hear it in their voices — the impatience, the protest, the anguish.

The people who call the area around Wildcat Canyonand the forested area that straddles the Ouray County-Montrose County line home are angry. And they should be.

The Simms Fire that blew up on the afternoon of May 19, destroying a home, two camp trailers and other property and torching more than 300 acres,

300 acres, didn’t have to happen. By ...