Badly in need of new infrastructure and a new business model, the facility has begun its resurgence with a new mission — to be an “epicenter of reforestation”
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The slow fade of Colorado’s mountain pine beetle is triggering a massive shift in the timber industry
Colorado’s forests have been waging a losing battle against tree-killing beetles for more than 15 years. Now, after marching across the state and killing millions of acres of pine forest, the burrowing, fungus-spreading mountain pine beetles are slowly losing steam. While other beetles have thrived in Colorado’s drought-ravaged mountains, the mountain pine beetles have reigned […]
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Coloradans’ increased use of public lands during coronavirus is taking its toll
Seth Boster, The Gazette COLORADO SPRINGS — Scott Fitzwilliams was supposed to be off work. But as supervisor of America’s most trafficked national forest,“ you’re never off work,” he says. So there he was Fourth of July weekend, supposed to be enjoying the serenity he had always known at a lake within White River National […]
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Opinion: Our Capitol Christmas Tree makes me wish for healthy Colorado forests
The U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree, a 55-foot-tall Engelmann spruce, was cut Nov. 5 on national forest land near Montrose and is being trucked across the country to Washington, D.C., where it will be set up and decorated as the nation’s Christmas tree. I saw the Capitol Christmas Tree on U.S. 50 the other day as […]
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Joe Neguse wants to direct billions to public lands to help Western states recover from coronavirus
U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse on Thursday introduced comprehensive legislation that aims to help Western economies better recover from the pandemic while addressing long standing conservation, forest management and wildfire challenges on public lands. The Boulder County Democrat’s 21st Century Conservation Corps for Our Health and Our Jobs Act is a mouthful and a big ask. […]
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They say we’re not “out of the woods” yet. So let’s appreciate the coronavirus woods.
Not Out of the Woods © Bob Calhoun “Not out of the woods”,say the epidemiologists, not yet;the virus being with us much longer;“Until a vaccine”, they repeat,“We’re not out of the woods…” And those of us in this second half of life,awarded a new classification of “most vulnerable,”however difficult it is to embrace,finding ourselves hunkered […]