Chaffee County Fire Protection District recently hired longtime firefighter Jeff Zechman as the department’s new wildfire and mitigation coordinator to help residents get ready for a wildfire.
The Payson Fire Department has partnered with two fuel mitigation organizations to train community members to recognize ignition threats for homeowners.
A forest thinning project planned for the Meadow Mountain, Grouse Mountain, Tigiwon and No Name areas of Eagle County, if completed correctly, could be the last piece of forest management required of the area for quite some time, a National Forest representative told locals last week.
Francie de Vos is happy she answered the phone on the day the representative from the Grand County Wildfire Council called and told her about an opportunity worth $5 to $10,000 but that would cost.
The United States Forest Service, through cherry picking scientific literature and picking projects is running from the truth that it wants more commercial logging writes columnist Mike Bader.