Harvesting the Colorado Capitol Holiday Tree
After a two-year pandemic-induced hiatus, the tradition of providing a Colorado Capitol Holiday tree is back. Happy Holidays, everyone!
Kristy Burnett
Communications Manager
(970) 491-4920
Kristy.Burnett@colostate.edu
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.
On Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022, Governor Jared Polis visited the Colorado State Forest Service Seedling Nursery on the Foothills Campus of Colorado State University.
The CSFS works with Colorado Springs Utilities and the Pikes-San Isabel National Forests & Cimarron and Comanche National Grasslands under a Good Neighbor Agreement to reduce the impacts of a catastrophic wildfire on this municipal watershed that supplies water to residents of Colorado Springs.
The Colorado State Forest Service (CSFS) delivered the first Wildfire Risk Mitigation Loan under a new partnership with the San Luis Valley Development Resources Group (SLVDRG) Business Loan Fund.