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Slash pile burning scheduled for this fall and winter on select Boulder County open space parks

October 30, 2023

Sites to be treated include Reynolds Ranch, Caribou Ranch, Mud Lake (Sherwood Gulch), and Hall Ranch. Boulder County, Colo. - Boulder County Parks & Open Space and the Sheriff’s Office Fire Management Program plan to conduct slash pile burns at Caribou Ranch and Mud Lake/Sherwood Gulch (north of Nederland); Reynolds Ranch (east of Nederland); and Hall Ranch (west of Lyons) as conditions allow this winter. These burns may require park closures and may begin as early as this weekend.…

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Hall Ranch Closed for Planned Prescribed Burn on Wednesday, Oct. 25.

October 23, 2023

Hall Ranch will be closed all day if conditions are favorable for another prescribed burn. Boulder County, Colo. - Boulder County Parks & Open Space and the Sheriff’s Office Fire Management Program will conduct another prescribed burn on Wednesday, Oct. 25, conditions permitting. Hall Ranch will be…

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Hall Ranch Closed for Planned Prescribed Burn on Wednesday, Oct. 11.

October 9, 2023

Prescribed burn is now scheduled for Wednesday, Oct. 11, if conditions are favorable. Boulder County, Colo. - Boulder County Parks & Open Space and the Sheriff’s Office Fire Management Program will conduct a prescribed burn on Wednesday, Oct. 11, conditions permitting. Hall Ranch will be closed for…

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Boulder County Funds Local Non-Profits to Increase Wildfire Mitigation Work

September 12, 2023

Funding Provided by County’s New Wildfire Mitigation Sales Tax Boulder County, Colo. - Boulder County has selected the Boulder Watershed Collective and The Watershed Center as its two, local, non-profit partners to perform wildfire mitigation education and outreach and implement strategic forest and grassland management projects.…

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New StoryMap: Grassland Management in Boulder County

August 23, 2023

The members of the Boulder County Fireshed Grasslands Working Group are pleased to share their new Story Map to provide information to the public while enhancing communications and collaboration across Boulder County’s governments to help mitigate against the threat of catastrophic wildfire in our grasslands. View Grasslands Management StoryMap

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Prescribed Burn Window for Hall Ranch Begins Tuesday, Aug. 1

July 25, 2023

Hall Ranch will only be closed during active ignition days. Boulder County, Colo. - Boulder County Parks & Open Space and the Sheriff’s Office Fire Management Program have announced burn-window dates to conduct prescribed burn operations this summer and fall, weather permitting. Prescribed fires reduce woody debris…

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Forsythe II Prescribed Burn Update

April 6, 2023

BOULDER, Colo. (April 6, 2023) – Fire managers anticipate a potential opportunity to start ignitions on the Forsythe II Prescribed Burn just west of Gross Reservoir as soon as Friday, April 7. Storms early in the week brought significant moisture to the area. As that snowfall melts…

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Forsythe II Prescribed Burn Could Take Place Early April

March 31, 2023

BOULDER, Colo. (March 31, 2023) – Firefighters on the Boulder Ranger District of the Roosevelt National Forest are monitoring conditions to begin operations on the Forsythe II Prescribed Burn, located 7 miles southwest of Boulder and 5.5 miles east of Nederland, as soon as April 7, 2023.…

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Boulder County Commissioners to consider ballot measures for wildfire mitigation, emergency response, and transportation

August 1, 2022

Public hearings scheduled for August 4, 2022 Seguido en Español Boulder County, Colo. -- In the county’s annual public opinion survey, the Boulder County Board of County Commissioners learned that the public strongly supports funding for services to keep our community safe. In response to that feedback,…

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Prescribed burn scheduled to begin Thursday, March 24, at Ron Stewart Preserve at Rabbit Mountain

March 24, 2022

The park will be closed Thursday and Friday. Boulder County, Colo. - Boulder County Parks & Open Space and the Sheriff’s Office Fire Management Program plan to conduct a prescribed burn on Thursday and Friday, March 24 and 25, at Ron Stewart Preserve at Rabbit Mountain, east of the…

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