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Fuels Reduction Projects Taking Place Next Week in Clear Creek Ranger District
Manual thinning and hand piling activities will begin on the 2021 South Zone Manual Treatment Contract located on the Clear Creek Ranger District beginning the week of June 6, 2022. In addition, we anticipate that mechanical treatment will continue on the Misery Timber Sale within the next few weeks. These projects address 139 acres of hazardous fuels north and west of Central City, including areas near Pickle Gulch and Cold Springs campgrounds. For questions please…
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Forest Service prepares for pile burning opportunities in western Boulder and Gilpin counties
Release Date: Jan 13, 2022 BOULDER, Colo. – As winter conditions settle in across Colorado's northern Front Range, the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests will work to burn slash piles resulting from fuels reduction and hazardous tree removal projects across the area. This season’s pile burning will begin as…
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Magic Feather Prescribed Burn Could Take Place This Spring 2021
FORT COLLINS, Colo. – Firefighters on the Canyon Lakes Ranger District of the Roosevelt National Forest are monitoring conditions to begin prescribed fire operations on the Magic Feather Prescribed Burn this spring to improve forest health. The wildfires of 2020 are a somber reminder of the…
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Canyon Lakes Pile Burning Update – 2/25/21
Firefighters from the Canyon Lakes Ranger District of the Roosevelt National Forest have been able to take advantage of recent snow and burn just over 500 slash piles, predominately in the Magic Sky 4 “Elk Units.” Burning could take place in the Red Feather Lakes…
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