We are all probably aware of Smokey the Bear’s admonishment to prevent forest fires and a recent study by Jennifer Balch et al has verified Smokey’s philosophy. Humans do cause most wildfires in the USA, “Human-started wildfires accounted for 84% of all wildfires, tripled the length of the fire season, dominated an area seven times Read More
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The Problem – (Revised)
Mitigation or Misguided? (Revised) The US Forest Service has issued a final project Decision in Boulder County for fire mitigation, “forest restoration,” and watershed protection (Forsythe II Project). They are cutting patches of forest using both clearcuts and aggressive thinning. Will these cuts actually help, or is this activity misguided? The USFS would have us Read More
USFS Final Decision Notice Released
The USFS has released the Final Decision Notice (DN) for the Forsythe ll project, which triggers implementation of the project. Logging is expected to start in 2018. The DN can be found here. While we still feel this project is misguided, we did make some inroads in the design of the project. These include: A Read More
Reach Out
United States Congress KC BECKER – D State Representative – District 1 200 East Colfax Denver, CO 80203 kcbecker.house@state.co.us Capitol Phone: (303) 866-2578 STEVE FENBERG – D Senate District 18 PO Box 4671 Boulder, CO 80306 info@stevefenberg.org Phone: (720) 244-2062 Letters to the Editor (Daily Camera) The Camera welcomes readers letters. Timely topics of local Read More
BREAKING NEWS: USFS Open House
December 13, 4:30-6:30 pm Boulder Ranger District Office 2140 Yarmouth Avenue, Boulder CO Add to Calendar Note the connection between Denver Water’s funding the Forsythe Project, DW’s plans to expand Gross Reservoir, and FS treatment plans for Gross. [huge_it_maps id=”3″] Read More