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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 planâs top priority areas that identifies where to treat forests for the highest cost efficiency and community benefit. Treatments in...
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 high levels. The Colorado Forest Service estimates a backlog of $4.2 billion in forest-thinning, just...