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Sunday, May 19, 2019 Over 800 readers and growing!

Long's Peak SAF Meeting contributed by Adam Moore Supervisory Forester Alamosa / Salida Field Offices Colorado State Forest Service
Please join Long's Peak SAF for our May meeting with updates and member recognition from the Annual Meeting and a presentation by Kelsey Delaney with Council of Western State Foresters and Western Forestry Leadership Coalition. Date: Wednesday May 22 Time: 6:00-7:30pm Location: CSU Michael Smith Natural Resources Bldg. Room 402 - Enter through the South West doors and take the elevator or stairs to the 4th floor. Parking Information: Suggested parking is in the "A" parking spaces or the metered parking lot to the East of the Forestry Building. 1 CFE available (Category 2) Thanks, Tara -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tara M. Costanzo Community Resource Forester Wyoming State Forestry Division
Council of Western State Foresters Biochar Market Analysis contributed by Howard Kemp, Tree Farmer
Biochar markets have been slow to develop because of high prices and a lack of understanding or articulation of biochar benefits. However, fast growing markets are developing in several areas: green infrastructure for stormwater management in cities; soil water retention in turf, landscaping and urban tree plantings; biochar soil blends for horticulture; biochar seed coatings and root zone applications in field crops; remediation of mine tailings and brownfields; and replacements for activated carbon and carbon black in a variety of industrial uses. Woody debris is an ideal biochar feedstock that can be used even in existing biomass boilers and furnaces to produce biochar. Most of the recent growth in biochar volume production is utilizing such technologies, and much of it is occurring in the Western states, where large volumes of biomass are in need of treatment to reduce wildfire risks. Read More
FEMA Colorado Wildfire Mitigation, Strategies Tested and Lessons Learned Wind. Fire. Loss contributed by Steve Goodroad, Tree Farmer
This is a new FEMA Video. The engineering company I work for produced this video. Watch the Video
CPRW partnership with American Forest Foundation for landowner outreach contributed by Daniel Bowker CPRW Forest and Fire Project Manager
The Coalition for the Poudre River Watershed is a local non-profit focused on improving and maintaining the health and resilience of the Poudre River watershed through community collaboration. CPRW works closely with the US Forest Service, and we work to identify private landowners who own property near areas where the USFS will be working on its lands. By doing forest restoration work at the landscape scale and treating private lands that are in proximity to federal lands where work is being done, we are able to achieve more benefit with limited funding, and maximize watershed resilience to wildfire. To this end, CPRW recently received a grant from the American Forest Foundation to reach out to private landowners who live within 3 miles of planned USFS forest restoration treatments, to start a conversation with those landowners about forest management. Read More
Australian Tree Planting contributed by Steve Goodroad, Tree Farmer
Technology is finally getting to the point where it is making a difference in this area. Watch Video
Creating Pollinator Habitat contributed by Lisa Mason
Pollinators are animal species that provide pollination services to plants in natural/wild landscapes, cultivated gardens and agriculture settings around the globe. They have coevolved with plants and the relationship between plants and pollinators is very intricate; each relying on each other for survival. These important services help many plants complete their lifecycles, as well as ensuring food and shelter for humans and other animals for many generations Read More
3200 YEARS IN ONE PHOTOGRAPH contributed by Steve Goodroad, Tree Farmer
Thanlfully no logger took it down, nor forest fires or earthquakes. Read More






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Long's Peak SAF Meeting

Council of Western State Foresters Biochar Market Analysis

FEMA Colorado Wildfire Mitigation, Strategies Tested and Lessons Learned Wind. Fire. Loss

CPRW partnership with American Forest Foundation for landowner outreach

Australian Tree Planting

Creating Pollinator Habitat

3200 YEARS IN ONE PHOTOGRAPH

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