Slash Pile Burning
2023/24 Pile Burning Plans for the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forest
Fire managers on the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests are preparing for pile burning season in counties along Colorado's northern Front Range, including Larimer, Boulder, Gilpin and Clear Creek. Pile burning will occur throughout the winter and spring as conditions allow. What is Pile Burning? Pile burning is a type of prescribed fire that helps remove woody debris from the forests, reducing the potential of more impactful, unplanned fire activity at other times of the…
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Sulphur Ranger District Pile Burning
U.S. Forest Service firefighters on the Sulphur Ranger District plan to burn slash piles from multiple fuels reduction and hazardous tree removal projects. Burning of these piles could occur this fall, winter and spring as weather and fuel conditions allow on the Arapaho National Forest. Throughout…
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Winter 2023 Slash Pile Burning in Northern Larimer County
The Ember Alliance will be burning slash piles on private lands in the Manhattan Creek and South Lone Pine Creek area of Larimer County during the winter of 2023. Burning of these piles will likely take place during March or April. Ignitions could start as…
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Phase 1: Saint Vrain Forest Health Partnership Project
Project Description: The project is part of the St. Vrain Forest Health Partnership which is a collaborative of agencies and community members working to increase the pace and scale of cross-boundary forest restoration in the St. Vrain Watershed. Projects selected provide critical linkages between existing…
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Boulder County Pile Burning
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 pile burns…
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Glen Haven Volunteer Fire Department Pile Burning
The Glen Haven Volunteer Fire Department (GHVFD) will burn slash piles on the outskirts of the community during winter months as weather conditions allow. Working on Glen Haven Association land on the western side of the community, the GHVFD created a large fuel break to…
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Ben Delatour Scout Ranch Slash Pile Burning
The Ben Delatour Scout Ranch will burn slash piles during the winter months as weather conditions allow. As part of the Elkhorn Creek Forest Health Initiative, the ranch has implemented several forest management treatments over the past few years with assistance from the Coalition for…
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Georgetown Reservoir Wildland Mitigation – Pile Burning
Project Description: The Georgetown Reservoir Wildland Mitigation consists of 47 acres of lodgepole forest with areas of aspen. The forest in the area goes right up to the edge of Georgetown Reservoir and would directly affect future water quality in the case of a fire.…
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Cedar Park – Sylvan Dale Fuel Reduction Project
This forest thinning project takes place on Sylvan Dale Ranch, which shares a boundary with planned U.S. Forest Service Cedar Park treatments. The targeted treatments have been identified as high risk to drinking water supplies by the Colorado Forest Restoration Institute. The project will reduce…
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Elkhorn Creek Forest Health Initiative
In 2015, the Coalition for the Poudre River Watershed (CPRW) partnered with Larimer County Conservation Corps, Wildlands Restoration Volunteers, Ben Delatour Scout Ranch and The Nature Conservancy (TNC), collectively forming the Elkhorn Creek Forest Health Initiative (ECHI). ECFHI formed to test the effectiveness of integrating…
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