Larger Staff Helps Community Wildfire Protection Plan Implementation
The Salida Field Office has tripled the amount of work getting done in support of Chaffee County’s 2020 Community Wildfire Protection Plan.
The Salida Field Office has tripled the amount of work getting done in support of Chaffee County’s 2020 Community Wildfire Protection Plan.
In 2022 the Colorado Legislature passed House Bill 22-1323 that dedicated $5 million to fund improvements to the nursery. During the tour, Nursery Manager Scott Godwin showed the lawmakers and partners around the nursery grounds. He described the progress made with the funding, next steps and future opportunities for success and expansion.
The State Land Board honored the CSFS and supervisory forester John Twitchell, a previous manager of the Colorado State Forest, with its 2022 Outstanding Partner Award. Twitchell accepted the award on behalf of the CSFS during a ceremony in Denver on Dec. 15.
After a two-year pandemic-induced hiatus, the tradition of providing a Colorado Capitol Holiday tree is back. Happy Holidays, everyone!
In October, the inaugural Women’s Forest Congress in Minneapolis, Minn., brought together more than 400 female and non-binary conference participants. Seven women represented the Colorado State Forest Service, and they came back renewed and reinvigorated.
The National Book Foundation first declared October as National Book Month in 2003, so last October we asked CSFS staff to share some of their favorite books about trees, forests and ecology. Then we put together this tree-mendous reading list for you.
Foresters, CSU students and heavy machinery operators make the trek up to Borden Memorial Forest each year to load up slash and haul it to the CSU campus for the annual Homecoming Bonfire.
October is an ideal time for landowners to check pine trees, specifically lodgepole, ponderosa and limber, on their property for the presence of mountain pine beetle (MPB).
Colorado evergreens shed their older, interior needles as part of an annual growth cycle. Needles on the lower portions of the crown or closest to the trunk are most commonly shed, but trees stressed due to drought or root damage may shed more needles to keep the tree in balance with its root system.
The Woodland Park Field Office of the Colorado State Forest Service received a $1 million Landscape Resilience Investment grant through the Colorado Department of Natural Resources Colorado Strategic Wildfire Action Program (COSWAP) that will fund essential forest management activities near the North Catamount reservoir.