The public should expect to encounter logging trucks this winter on the Beaver Meadows Road (Forest Road #135) east of Bayfield, with up to five loads of timber hauled per day from the Beaver Aspen Timber Sale.

Beaver Meadows Road will be plowed for snow removal to accommodate the logging trucks. Groomed snowmobile routes in the area will be reconfigured to avoid conflict with the winter road use. The 300-acre Beaver Aspen Timber Sale is designed to produce merchantable timber products and regenerate aspen stands. Aspen logs will be hauled to the Aspen Wall Wood Mill in Dolores and an excelsior mill in Hooper, Colo. Conifer logs may be hauled to mills in Colorado and New Mexico.

Beaver Meadows is the first U.S. Forest Service area east of Bayfield on U.S. Highway 160 and is popular with hunters and families getting firewood and cutting their own Christmas trees.

For more information, please contact the Columbine Ranger District at 884-2512.