Jefferson Conservation District

2011 Forestry Work

Brian Devine — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:47:54 +0000

As our first program update, I want to fill in our readers with some information about what forestry work the District has put together for forest health and wildfire mitigation purposes in the past year. JCD’s primary mission is to connect landowners in our three-county jurisdiction with technical and financial resources to implement natural resource conservation practices on their lands. On forested lands this often takes the form of professional guidance from our staff forester and guidance through the many steps of the EQIP process.

JCD currently is involved with over a dozen individual forest treatments, mostly in Jefferson County. Some of these are with individual landowners, but some of our more exciting projects utilize grant funding to plan and implement forestry work on multiple properties, achieving a landscape-scale impact. Our major landscape project from the last year is through the Colorado Partnership Program (CPP) through our frequent partner, the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service.

Map of JCD's CPP forestry project (click to enlarge)

This project is treating 125 acres of primarily Lodgepole fine forest on four different ranches. The purpose of this project is to promote forest diversity through aspen regeneration, to improve the resiliency of the forest against fire and insects, and to protect both communities, which are located in the Wildland-Urban Interface, from a catastrophic wildfire, which in this area would tend to move west-to-east from the area we are treating to the residential communities themselves.

This project is ongoing, but is only one of several currently ongoing in the District. We’ll be providing more information on our forestry, agriculture and water-protection projects on this website throughout the year.

Watch This Space

admin — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:50:09 +0000

First off- we know. It’s been a while since we’ve had a chance to update this website. But that’s going to be changing very quickly. We continue to upload content- like the completed Forest Health and Watershed Protection pages covering two of our biggest programs. But even more exciting is that we’ll be using this site to provide our landowners and partners with regular updates on what we’re working on to conserve natural resources in Jefferson, Clear Creek and Gilpin Counties. Our home page will have a continuous stream of updates from individual staff members starting tomorrow and continuing for the foreseeable future. This website will soon be your best source of information on the issues confronting the district and what we’re doing to address them. Thanks for checking in, and make sure you keep doing so! (You can also get our updates in RSS format- click the link on the bottom right of our home page.)

Welcome to our new website

admin — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:14:19 +0000

Welcome everyone, to our new District website. Please “Pardon Our Dust” as we work on uploading information to this newly redesigned site. This will be JCD’s permanent online home for information and useful resources for landowners, communities and government entities. Please check back soon for more information, or read out About Us page to learn more.

Thanks! – The JCD staff