Slash Pile Burning
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 volunteer/new sawyers with professional sawyers to design and implement a forest health project that met multiple objectives including: reducing high intensity wildfire risk, protecting water quality, improving forest resilience, and…
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Ember Alliance Slash Pile Burning 2021
The Ember Alliance will be burning slash piles on private lands in the Elkhorn Creek area of Larimer County during the winter of 2021. Burning of these piles could take place throughout the upcoming snowy, winter months. Ignitions could start as early as February 2021.…
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Arapaho & Roosevelt National Forests Pile Burning
Fuels reduction programs involve mechanical or hand thinning projects, removing trees to reduce forest density and improve forest health. While larger logs are removed for use, unmarketable limbs, saplings, and brush are piled up for burning. Hand piles result from crews using chainsaws to thin…
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