Graffiti on peaks marks a new issue for officials U.S. Forest Service officials and fourteener advocates are decrying several recent felt-tip pen inscriptions left on Colorado's highest peak. "Graffiti is something new," said Forest Service peak manager Loretta McEllhiney, who is investigating the incidents on 14,440-foot Mount Elbert near Leadville. Leaving graffiti on national forest land is considered a form of vandalism. Offenders can be charged with defacing government property, similar to shooting bullet holes in a Forest Service sign, McEllhiney said. Authorities didn't have to look far for one of the culprits, Lewis Daugherty of Fort Collins, who left his full name and e-mail address on a summit boulder in early August....