Prescribed Fires
Salt Cabin Prescribed Burn Project
The Canyon Lakes Ranger District of the Roosevelt National Forest completed the decision for the Salt Cabin Prescribed Burn Project located south of Rustic and Highway 14. This project will improve timber stands by thinning and prescribed burning to reduce natural fuel build-up and hazards. The Forest Service will re-introduce fire to forests that are adapted to low- and mixed-severity fires, helping maintain the low fire hazard conditions created by both a previous prescribed fire…
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Blue Ridge Prescribed Burn
Project Overview The Blue Ridge Salvage and Fuels Reduction Project is part of the Forest Service’s on-going effort to improve forest health conditions on the Sulphur Ranger District. Blue Ridge is the geographic feature that runs North-South from Granby to Fraser, between the East Troublesome,…
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Forsythe II Prescribed Burn
Project Overview The Forsythe II Project is part of the Forest Service’s on-going effort to improve forest health conditions on the Boulder Ranger District. The project area is located near Gross Reservoir and Winiger Ridge in Boulder County, Colo. The entire project area encompasses 18,954…
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Pierson Park Fuel Break
Across this project area, forest thinning and prescribed burning will occur where it will do the most good and where it builds off of existing opportunities for fire mitigation (such as historical burn areas, prior restoration, roads, ridgelines, etc.). The Roosevelt National Forest is starting analysis on…
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Black Diamond Landscape Resiliency and Risk Reduction Project
Project Summary With the Black Diamond Landscape Resiliency and Risk Reduction Project, the Forest Service proposes a suite of management tools to improve and maintain a resilient landscape, facilitate fire adapted communities, and improve wildfire response. The first step of the Black Diamond project is…
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Hall Ranch – Nelson Loop
This is part of a 5-year project to treat 853 acres, with a goal of burning no more than 350 acres per year. During the 5 year timeframe it is desired to burn every acre twice if possible. Project Goals: Reduce hazardous fuels, protecting…
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Magic Feather Prescribed Burn
Project Goals: The Canyon Lakes Ranger District of the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests, in cooperation with the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), The Nature Conservancy (TNC), and Coalition for the Poudre River Watershed (CPRW), is proposing to broadcast burn on both National Forest System…
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