The Pike-San Isabel National Forests & Cimarron and Comanche National Grasslands San Carlos Ranger District will receive an investment through the Joint Chiefs’ Landscape Restoration Partnership to help mitigate wildfire risk, protect water quality, improve wildlife habitat, and restore forest ecosystems for the Southern Front Range Watershed project over the next three years.
Forest Service staff will work with partners in the Southern Front Range Watershed Project area near Cuchara, Aguilar, Stonewall, Wetmore, Westcliffe, Beulah, and Rye in Pueblo, Custer, Huerfano and Las Animas counties. The Natural Resources Conservation Service will work with private landowners in the project area. The project is planned to decrease vegetation density and built-up plant and tree debris on public and private lands. The project is expected to improve forest health and reduce the potential for large, fast-moving fires protecting more than 12,000 full and part time residents.
“We’re working with our partners to conduct cross-boundary treatments on the landscape,” said San Carlos District Ranger Destiny Chapman. “Wildfires do not stop when jurisdiction changes, so it is important to work with our various partners to achieve effective wildfire mitigation across different landownership.”
Project partners include Arkansas River Watershed Collaborative, City of Trinidad, Colorado Parks and Wildlife, Colorado State Forest Service, Colorado Water Conservation Board, The Cuchara Foundation, Huerfano County, Huerfano County Water Conservation District, La Veta Fire Protection District, Las Animas County, National Forest Foundation, Purgatoire Water Partners, Spanish Peaks Alliance for Wildfire Protection, and Stonewall Fire Protection District.
The Joint Chiefs’ Landscape Restoration Partnership enables the Natural Resources Conservation Service and the Forest Service to collaborate with agricultural producers, forest landowners and other partners to invest in conservation and restoration at a scale big enough to make a difference. For more information about the Joint Chiefs’ Landscape Restoration Partnership, please visit this website.
Jeff
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