Forestry project to protect Front Range drinking water kicks off in July
Forest health project kicks off in Colorado State Forest, near Cameron Pass.
Forest health project kicks off in Colorado State Forest, near Cameron Pass.
A $1.23 million donation kickstarted fundraising efforts to transform the Michigan River Camp at the Colorado State Forest into a facility that offers place-based learning, training and research.
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.
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.
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.
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.