Firefighters from Teller and Douglas Counties were back at a familiar scene Tuesday afternoon: a recreational shooting area on U.S. Forest Service land just south of Westcreek.  For the seventh time in 2017, a human-caused wildfire sparked near the Turkey Track recreational shooting site, burning more than 40 acres in southern Douglas County primarily inside the burn scar for 2002's Hayman Wildfire.

"There's a lot of snags in the area, which are dead trees from the old burn scar in here," said Dawn Sanchez, Fire Information Officer for the U.S. Forest Service.  "Those trees can fall and they can easily kill a firefighter," Sanchez said.

Although shooting is legal in the area, some of the targets shooters use are not.  "A lot of people unfortunately shoot a lot of trash out here," Sanchez said.  "Metal containers, they shoot exploding targets and those are illegal out here."  Sanchez wouldn't speculate whether Tuesday's fire or the six previous ones in the area this year were caused by shooting.

"We started out very dry this year and we had one good snow out here, but that's dried off and we're right back in the same fire danger that we were in earlier this year," Sanchez said.

Late Tuesday, the U.S. Forest Service said the Turkey Track 7 Fire was 25 percent contained and most of the 30-plus firefighters on scene were heading home for the night, with plans to return early Wednesday morning.