Setting the stage for a healthy, productive forest on State Trust Lands
Staff at the Colorado State Forest pooled funding to carry out a crucial forest health project on about 600 acres of State Trust Lands in southeast Jackson County.
Tag: Colorado State Forest
Reducing Wildland Fuels Through Pile Burning
March 15, 2024
When foresters complete forest management and fuels reduction treatments, they sometimes pile up the leftover, non-merchantable material. Trained Colorado State Forest Service personnel then burn these piles as an economical and effective method of disposing of excess wildland fire fuels.
Forester John Twitchell & the CSFS Receive Outstanding Partner Award
January 05, 2023
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.
Blair Rynearson Takes Helm as Colorado State Forest Manager
September 16, 2021
Based out of the CSFS State Forest Field Office in Gould, Blair Rynearson will steward about 58,000 acres of state trust forestland and a facility with buildings on the National Register of Historic Places.