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Cañon
City District: Serving Custer, Fremont and Pueblo Counties
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The Canon City District delivers technical
assistance to private landowners, municipal and county
governments and agencies and is the silvicultural lessee
for state trust lands in Pueblo, Fremont and Custer
Counties.
Our programs and services are varied but generally
fall with the areas of forest management, fire prevention,
mitigation and control, community forestry, and information
and education.
We are staffed with two foresters and a half time administrative
assistant. We also share our office with an inventory
forester responsible for conducting the Forest Inventory
and Analysis program in southeastern Colorado.
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How Can We Help You? |
Fire
Preparedness
Forest Insects & Diseases
Meet Our Staff |
Forest
Management
Seedling Tree Ordering Information
Contact Us |
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Fire
Preparedness
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If a wildfire threatened your property,
would you be prepared to meet the threat? Personal
safety, your home, property improvements and land
value are all at risk. The wildfire danger you
face is largely dependent upon the size of the
flames and the speed at which they spread. By
managing the amount and arrangement of vegetation
on your property, you can reduce flame size, rate
of fire spread and the destructive potential of
fire.
Learn about Creating
Wildfire-Defensible Zones (205
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Forest
Management
Why You Should Manage Your
Forest Land?
| People tend to take good care of the
things they value and often desire to pass them
along to their children after they are gone. A healthy
forest provides many different values and maintaining
these values over time does not happen by accident.
Unmanaged, forest conditions and the values they
provide change over time. Forest management allows
the landowner to greatly influence the forest condition
and values provided. Regardless if your goals are
to create desired forest conditions or maintain
current conditions, active forest management provides
the tools you need to meet your goals. |
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Forest
Insects and Diseases
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From the time a tree seed germinates
to the time when it finally succumbs to (hopefully)
old age it will serve as host to a myriad of insects
and disease organisms. Sometimes a tree can withstand
the negative impacts of insects and disease; other
times it may need a little assistance from you
to survive. Being familiar with the kinds of insect
and disease interactions your tree may encounter;
which are benign and which are potentially dangerous
to the health of your tree is your best tool.
Learn more about these common insects and diseases:
Mountain
Pine Beetle (281 KB PDF)
Dwarf
Mistletoe (127 KB PDF)
Ips
Beetles (298 KB PDF)
Piñon
Pine Insects & Diseases
(297 KB PDF)
Juniper-Hawthorn
Rust (48 KB PDF)
Diagnosing
Tree Disorders (146 KB PDF)
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Seedling
Tree Ordering Information
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Meet Our Staff
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John Grieve |
Nate Jester |
David Dilling (FIA) |
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Contact Information
John Grieve - District Forester
District Office
csfscc@lamar.colostate.edu
515 McDaniel Boulevard
Industrial Park
Cañon City, CO 81212-4164
(719) 275-6865, (719) 275-7002
FAX (719) 275-6853 |
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