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Pile Burn Workshop at Cow Camp
March 2, 2024 @ 7:45 am - 3:00 pm
Join the The Ember Alliance, the Heart J Center, and the Big Thompson Watershed Coalition for a free pile burn workshop at the historic Cow Camp!
About: This workshop is a hands-on, educational event for landowners in the Big Thompson watershed who are interested in learning about building and burning slash piles as a way to reduce wildfire risk to their homes and community. This workshop aims to provide landowners with the knowledge to safely burn slash piles on their own property. The organizations present will conduct pile burning operations, provide forestry and wildfire expertise, and go through the step-by-step process of how private landowners in can burn their own slash piles. Registration will be capped at 20 participants, so reserve your spot now!
Date: Prescribed fire implementation is dependent on weather conditions! We plan to host the workshop on Saturday, March 2, 2024. However, we ask workshop participants to be FLEXIBLE, as the date may change depending on weather. We will notify participants as soon as possible if the date changes. If we are unable to burn piles on March 2, our back-up date will be the following Saturday of March 9.
Location: The workshop will be held at the Heart J Center’s historic Cow Camp near Storm Mountain, Colorado. This is a remote location off a rough access road that is behind multiple locked gates that we will provide access through. High clearance, 4WD/ AWD vehicles are encouraged to access the parking area. The parking area is an open meadow off Cedar Creek Road past the locked gate on Bobcat Drive. We encourage carpooling, as space is limited! From the parking area, we will caravan to Cow Camp.
What to Bring: water, lunch, personal protective equipment (leather gloves, leather boots with non-slip soles, sunglasses or eye protection, hard hat if you have one), non-synthetic clothing such as cotton or wool (long sleeve shirt & pants). The Ember Alliance can provide hard hats and leather gloves for those who don’t have their own.
IMPORTANT! All participants must fill out a liability waiver before the workshop.
Schedule:
7:45 – Meet at parking area
8:00 – Caravan to Cow Camp
8:30 – Introductions, Liability Waiver Check & Briefing
9:00 – Project overview, drip torch demo, Go/No-Go Checklist
9 :30 – Pile ignitions
10:30 – Wildfire mitigation, watershed health, permitting process, resources available to you & group discussion
12:00 – Lunch
1:00 – Mop up
2:30 – After Action Review
3 :00 – Workshop Complete
Questions? Email kristin@emberalliance.org