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Legislation removes public from forest management

Ill-named legislation that would take a wrecking ball to the public’s involvement in management of our public forests has recently moved through the House of Representatives, and is now unde...

PCC Southwest to offer introductory forestry and fire mitigation classes again in 2025

These classes are open to adults with high school diplomas and high school students

PCC to host open house about forestry workforce

Forestry and similar professions invited to learn more

Photos: Working with wood

Local craftsman uses wood joinery, rather than nails or screws to construct homes and other structures

Simon Gnehm: Traditional timber framing

Craftsman runs Dovetail Timbers in Durango

PCC to offer free certificate programs in wildfire mitigation and forestry

These programs will accept 20 students, with enrollment opening on March 11

Logging by train

State forest service partners with railroad for fuel thinning project near Rockwood

Working with ‘good fire’

Fire managers in Southwest Colorado are changing they way they respond to wildfires

Christmas trees and harvest permits for national forest available

San Juan Mountains Association to open Christmas trees for Conservation lot on Nov. 24

Sticks in snow

Snowtography sites in the southwest could foster more climate-resilient forests

Prescribed burns on 27,600 acres of San Juan National Forest scheduled for this fall

Conditions appear to be ‘really promising’

Environmentalists sue over logging plans in San Juan National Forest

The Salter project, located on 22,346 acres near Dolores, was approved in 2021