Methodist Front News Today

Area landowners work to reduce risk of wildfire at the base of Mount Princeton

Envision Chaffee County presented an update to Chaffee County commissioners Monday on the Chaffee County Wildfire Protection Plan from the Envision Forest Health Council.

Poncha Springs trustees voted to repeal Resolution 2020-5 concerning the COVID-19 public health emergency after two years.

The Chaffee County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday proclaimed February as Kindness in Action month in Chaffee County.

Chaffee County Commissioners will hold a special meeting at 8 a.m. today to consider Resolution 2022-06, which would approve an increase of the number of precincts within Chaffee County.

Chaffee County Commissioners will hold a special meeting at 8 a.m. today to consider Resolution 2022-06, which would approve an increase of the number of precincts within Chaffee County.

Dozens of landowners in the foothills of Methodist Mountain have agreed to forest treatments that are necessary to create a community fuel break designed to protect Salida and Poncha Springs

Envision Forest Health Council partners will treat the overgrown forest above the Arkansas River north of Buena Vista to improve wildlife habitat and reduce risk of wildfire and its potential effects on area residents and infrastructure. Railroad Bridge is the third forest treatment project to be prioritized and funded under the Council, which formed last year to implement the Chafee County Community Wildfire Protection Plan. The project is in the wildfire plan’s top priority areas that id...

Cindy Williams, chairperson, and Rick Hum, vice-chair, announced Chaffee County Common Ground program raised $1.16 million in 2019 and $1.18 million in 2020.

Posted by Jan Wondra | Jan 27, 2021 Even as winter snows cover the ground, the unease is growing across this state and the nation that the steady march of climate change is impacting our western forests in ways we cannot stop. Here in Colorado, our timberlands are beset by drought, being eaten alive by a variety of beetles, loved to death by human beings over-running public lands, with their  resiliency damaged by decades of fire suppression that has left the dead timber load at historically h...