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Ben Delatour Scout Ranch Plans for 2023 Winter Slash Pile Burning
Fort Collins, CO - The Ben Delatour Scout Ranch will burn slash piles during the winter months as weather conditions allow. The ranch has implemented several forest management treatments over the past few years with assistance from the Coalition for the Poudre River Watershed, Larimer County Conservation Corps, The Ember Alliance, Natural Resources Conservation Service and Larimer Conservation District, Wildlands Restoration Volunteers, The Nature Conservancy, Colorado State Forest Service, and numerous volunteers. Each winter slash…
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Grand County Updating Community Wildfire Protection Plan
Grand County has contracted SWCA Environmental Consultants to work in collaboration with municipal, state, and federal land management agencies to develop the 2023 Grand County Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP). A CWPP is designed to assist the County and landowners in ensuring that a future…
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Collaboration Supports Prescribed Burning on the Colorado Front Range – Part 2
by Hannah Brown, Science Communication Specialist, Colorado Forest Restoration Institute, Colorado State University Using prescribed fire as a tool on forest restoration projects in fire-adapted forests helps to achieve ecological objectives that you can’t accomplish without putting fire on the ground. Fire can reduce the…
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Pile Burning planned near Peaceful Valley, Rollinsville
BOULDER, Colo. (Dec. 5, 2022) – Firefighters plan to burn slash piles from multiple fuels reduction and hazardous tree removal projects on the Boulder Ranger District starting tomorrow and continuing throughout the week as conditions allow. Burning of these piles could take place throughout the upcoming…
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Slash pile burning scheduled for this winter on select Boulder County open space parks
Boulder County, Colo. - Boulder County Parks & Open Space and the Sheriff’s Office Fire Management Program plan to conduct slash pile burns at Caribou Ranch and Sherwood Gulch (north of Nederland); Reynolds Ranch (east of Nederland); and Walker Ranch (west of Boulder) as conditions allow this winter. Slash…
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