By George Sibley
The onset of the wildfire season puts our forests back on the front page, but the wildfires are really just a visible symptom of larger troubles among the trees – troubles that track those “natural disasters” right back to us humans and some naive cultural choices.
Brief by Allen Best
Forestry – October 2008 – Colorado Central Magazine
Thinning of forests near homes in areas hit hard by mountain bark beetles continues in communities along Colorado’s Interstate 70. But the experience in Summit County has been that making neighborhoods in these wildland-urban interfaces less susceptible to fire is expensive and not without counter-intuitive twists.
Brief by Allen Best
Forestry – September 2008 – Colorado Central Magazine
California is talking about ways to tax people in rural areas for the cost of fighting wildfires. The cost is huge, about $950 million in the last year. The state has a budget deficit of more than $17 billion, reports the Wall Street Journal.
Brief by Central Staff
Forestry – September 2006 – Colorado Central Magazine
The blue spruce is Colorado’s official state tree, but this time of year, no one drives to the mountains to look at the unchanging conifer. Instead, it’s the glowing aspen leaves, spread across the mountainsides like spilled sunshine, that draw the visitors.
Brief by Central Staff
Forestry – January 2001 – Colorado Central Magazine
The “Millennium Holiday Tree” — perhaps more familiarly known as this year’s White House Christmas Tree — came from Pike-San Isabel National Forest in Central Colorado.
The 65-foot-tall Colorado Blue Spruce near Woodland Park was selected two years ago, when Colorado got the chance to supply the tree.
Review by Ed Quillen
Forestry – June 1998 – Colorado Central Magazine
Decline of the Aspen
Special Report on the Health of National Forests in Colorado
by the Club 20 Research Foundation
Published in 1998 by Club 20
P.O. Box 550
Grand Junction CO 81502
Letter from Roz Mcclellan
Forestry – September 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
Editors:
The future of the Rio Grande National Forest is now up for public review following the August release of its draft management plan. At stake are 1.8 million acres of highly diverse ecosystems in the eastern part of the San Juan Mountains. These ecosystems — many still roadless — are habitat for rare species such as lynx, wolverine, boreal toad, boreal owls and others.
Article by Tom Wolf
Forestry – January 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
“I just don’t want to have to look at your sawmill. I have a house across the road at Greenwood Tracts.”