Golden District
Proudly Serving Clear Creek, Jefferson and [NorthEast] Park Counties
The Golden District of the Colorado State Forest Service (CSFS) is one of 17 districts located throughout Colorado. We are a division of the Warner College of Natural Resources at Colorado State University (CSU). Our headquarters is located on the CSU’s foothills campus in Fort Collins.
Our mission is to provide for the stewardship of forest resources and to reduce related risks to life, property and the environment for the benefit of present and future generations.
The Golden District has assisted the Colorado Division of Wildlife and Colorado State Parks for thirty years in maintaining healthy forests, reducing wildfire hazards and improving wildlife habitat on local properties such as: the Mt. Evans State Wildlife Area; Staunton State Park; and Golden Gate Canyon State Park. The district coordinates with local fire departments, county emergency services and county sheriffs’ offices to improve wildfire preparedness and response to local, regional, and national wildfires.
We support private landowners efforts to manage their forestlands through forest stewardship planning, insect and disease detection and control and technical support and inspections for more than 155 forest agriculture properties. The district also assists Denver Mountain Parks and Jefferson County Open Space through forest management and prescribed fire activities on these locally-owned public lands.
The Golden District has been active in wildland-urban interface concerns for more than twenty years and continues to assist county planners and private developers review and implement wildfire mitigation plans for subdivisions, to help private landowners plan their defensible space activities around homesites, and to facilitate community wildfire planning and fuels reduction activities.
CSFS has traditionally provided landowners with technical assistance and educational materials. We emphasize landscape scale management and interagency cooperation. Visit the links on the right side of this page to access all CSFS programs.
Please read more about the Golden District in our 2007 annual report.
Contact Information
Allen Gallamore - District Forester
District Office
1504 Quaker Street
Golden, CO 80401-2956
(303) 279-9757, (303) 279-2011
FAX (303) 278-3899
csfsgo@lamar.colostate.edu
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