Salt Cabin Prescribed Burn Project Scoping Begins

Fort Collins, Colo, (Apr. 25, 2024) – The Canyon Lakes Ranger District of the Roosevelt National Forest has opened the scoping period for the Salt Cabin Prescribed Burn Project located south of Rustic and CO State Hwy 14. This project is a part of the overall strategy to confront the wildfire crisis along Colorado’s Front Range.

The purpose of this project will be to improve timber stands by thinning and prescribed burning to reduce natural fuel build-up and hazards, which is consistent with Forest-wide management goals and objectives. The Forest Service is proposing to re-introduce fire to forests that are adapted to low- and mixed-severity fires and by maintaining the low fire hazard conditions created by both a previous prescribed fire (Dadd-Bennett) and the Cameron Peak Fire of 2020. The total project area encompasses 4, 567 acres. Documents related to this project area available online.

Canyon Lakes staff will be attending a community meeting to provide an informational presentation to members of the public with an opportunity to learn about what is being proposed on May 13, 2024, from 7 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Poudre Canyon Fire Station #2, 22689 Poudre Canyon Road in Rustic, Colo. To provide feedback on this project, please visit https://cara.fs2c.usda.gov/Public//CommentInput?Project=65287.