Cheley Camps getting ahead of future wildfires
EP Trail Gazette | Cheley Colorado Camps in Estes Park is getting ahead of the next round of wildfires with nearly 80 acres of forestry work being performed by the National Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) over a roughly two year period.
Healthy Forest program offers forest fire mitigation funding for private landowners
Coloradoan | Coloradans love their mountains — and not just for playing in the state's 24.4 million acres of national forests.
About half of the state's 5.7 million people live in wildfire-prone areas near forests, and private landowners own about 7 million acres of forest.
Partnering with the Land: SMC’s Conservation Forestry Project and the Cameron Peak Fire
Drala Mountain Center | To the untrained eye, the ponderosa forests of Shambhala Mountain Center have never been anything less than pristine wonderlands. But to experts in the field of conservation forestry, these ecosystems have actually been unhealthy for many years. That’s according to SMC’s Master Planner Mac McGoldrick, who came onboard in 2017 with an eye not only for pretty landscapes, but truly healthy ecosystems — two values which can be in opposition sometimes…
