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Boulder gets wise to wise to wildfires
Sep 29th
Boulder County, Colo. – October is Wildfire Awareness Month in Boulder County and will feature a full slate of educational programs and events, community mitigation and forestry thinning efforts, and the launch of the Boulder County Community Wildfire Protection Plan.
A free half-day wildfire mitigation workshop in Nederland on Oct. 1 will help guide county residents through a checklist of modifications they can make to better prepare their homes in defense of a wildfire.
“Nearly half of Boulder County is forested and at high risk for wildfires,” Boulder County Community Wildfire Protection Planner Jim Webster said. “Population growth in the forested areas has resulted in an increased risk of wildfire and in more direct impacts to residents, so we want to help people take a role in preventing and preparing for future wildfires.”
Wildfire mitigation measures can help minimize the destructive effects a wildfire has on forested lands and homes in the wildland urban interface and the following Wildfire Awareness Month events were developed to educate residents and promote action to reduce the frequency and severity of future wildfires in Boulder County:
Event
Location
Date/Time
Walker Ranch Fire Ecology Hike
Meyers Homestead Trailhead
Oct. 1, 10 a.m.-noon
Wildfire Preparedness & Planning Workshop
Nederland Community Center
Oct. 1, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
REI Fire Series Presentation: The Effects of Fire on Soils
Community Forestry Sort Yard program prepares for seasonal location change Site near Nederland to close July 9; alternate site near Allenspark to open Aug. 9
Jun 28th
Because the county only has the resources and staff to operate one site at a time using an air curtain burner and related equipment to reduce volume and process woody material, the two sites operate on alternate schedules each season.
At 5 p.m. on Saturday, July 9, the Nederland area sort yard, located at 286 Ridge Road, will close for the summer. Residents using the Nederland area site are encouraged to continue with their beetle mitigation and defensible space improvement projects by cutting and transporting beetle-infested logs and slash to the site before mountain pine beetles begin flying in mid-July.
The Boulder County Commissioners are reviewing proposals for reopening the Nederland area sort yard on a limited basis this year to accept additional slash and logs from county residents. More information on potential dates and hours for these extra collections will be released later this summer.
Additionally, Nederland area residents are invited to attend and provide input about their experience using the sort yard in its first year of operation at a community meeting scheduled for 7 p.m., Tuesday, July 12, at the Nederland Community Center.
The Allenspark/Meeker Park sort yard, located on the Peak-to-Peak Highway just north of the Boulder-Larimer county line, will open for log and slash disposal at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 9 and remain open through Oct. 15. The Allenspark area site will not accept logs infested by mountain pine beetles until the majority of beetle flight has ended in mid-September.
To better understand the types and preferred lengths of material accepted at the sort yard, please visit www.BoulderCounty.org/ForestHealth before using the yard for the first time.
For more information about bark beetle management tips, upcoming trainings, and sort yard operations, contact Ryan Ludlow, Boulder County’s outreach forester, at 720-564-2641 or pinebeetle@bouldercounty.org.