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• Feb. 11 - Eastern Colorado Community Forestry Conference
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• 2012 Application for Seedling Trees Now Available
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Forest Biomass Use Work Group Submits Final Report to General Assembly

A viable forest products industry encourages active, sustainable forest management.

On Jan. 1, the Colorado Forest Biomass Use Work Group submitted its final report to the General Assembly on how to promote forest health, woody biomass energy development and viable markets that encourage active, sustainable forest management in our state. Read more

CSFS Accepting Nominations for 2011 Outstanding Forest Stewardship

Outstanding Forest Steward recipients, Don and Mari McDavid, with Jeff Jahnke, CSFS director (left) and Jacob McCarthy, CSFS Granby District forester (right).

In October 2011, Don and Mari McDavid of Tabernash, Colo., were recognized as the 2010 Outstanding Forest Steward of the Year. Don McDavid is a Master Gardener, Tree Farmer and Forest Ag Program participant who also constructed a personal nursery and shade house to propagate his own seedling stock.

Nominations are currently being accepted for 2011 outstanding forest stewardship. If you know of a landowner who has a forest stewardship plan and is actively managing their forest and promoting forest stewardship for greater public awareness, please consider submitting a nomination for the individual(s). To learn how to recognize someone for this award, read more.