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A Call To Arms This is War! here is the enemy
Dear Front Range Forest Landowner: We have a problem. The Mountain Pine Beetle has now successfully crossed the divide in force and is starting to devastate the forests along the Front Range. Forest landowners have two choices: sit back and watch your trees die or organize and fight back. This is a war and the survival of millions of trees hangs in the balance. There is a solution. Although I continually hear it mentioned, assuming that our forests will die and, therefore, suggesting that we might as well start to work on plans for the next generation is not an acceptable option for many of Colorado’s residents. Most of our forests are still alive east of the divide and a lot of us would like to do whatever we can to keep it that way. As Forest Landowners, we can mobilize to do a lot more, but to win this war, or even meaningfully mitigate the damage being done; we need our counties to step up to the plate. The Colorado State Forest Service and Colorado Dept of Natural Resources recently received a federal grant to build forest product sort yards in 5 counties along the Front Range, Larimer, Boulder, Gilpin, Clear Creek, and Jefferson. These yards could be used as collection points that would provide local forest managers with an incentive and a method for more aggressively removing beetle infested trees from the forest and processing them to kill the beetles before they migrate to healthy trees. What Can I Do? If you are interested in mitigating the damage that will be done to your forest when the Pine Beetle reaches it in force, contact your county commissioners and ask them what you can do to insure that a collection site is built near you where you can dispose of beetle infested logs before the beetle can migrate to healthy trees this coming fall. Then contact your district office of the Colorado State Forest Service and/or your local Tree Farm representative and learn how to properly identify beetle infested trees and how and when to treat or dispose of them BEFORE the beetles can infect more trees. Those of you not already actively practicing sustainable forestry PLEASE NOTE: Even Rocky Mountain National Park is, at this moment, cutting and burning beetle infested trees. That's Sort yards/collection sites may not be the only or best plan, but it's a plan that can certainly help and it can be available to us now. You have seen how quickly the Pine Beetle has decimated the forests on the Western Slope. We all need to make a commitment and act now or it will be too late to save our remaining forests. Those beetles will be flying again by the end of the summer. Act now!
In Boulder County Contact:
In Gilpin County Contact:
In Clear Creek County Contact:
In Jefferson County Contact:
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