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 in the area (Dadd-Bennett) and the Cameron Peak Fire of 2020. The total project area encompasses 4,489 acres. Documents related to this project are available online. Thanks to everyone who attended a public meeting in May 2024regarding this project.

Where: North of the Colorado State University Mountain Campus and Jacks Gulch Campground, south of the Rustic Community, Arrowhead Visitor Center, and CO State Hwy 14, west of the Cache La Poudre Wilderness.