Colorado - Stewardship Contracting Projects

Forest Service

  • ANRA Forest Health, Arapaho & Roosevelt National Forest
    The ANRA Forest Health Project is a proactive approach to fuels reduction and treatment of pine mountain beetle infestation on approximately 1,530 acres.
  • Seven Mile, Arapaho-Roosevelt National Forest
    The Seven Mile project is designed to reduce the risk of insect and disease outbreaks, reduce fuel loading, and restore native aspen and ponderosa pine forests in the region. Activities will result in improved forest and rangeland health. A contract was awarded in FY 2001.
  • Winiger Ridge Restoration, Arapaho-Roosevelt National Forest
    The purpose of the Winiger Ridge Restoration project is to implement the Land Management Action Plan that was developed by a collaborative, community-driven approach for planning long-term sustainable ecosystem restoration project. The pilot is also designed to test how public demonstration projects can be implemented on a mosaic of land ownerships. Fifteen contracts were awarded between FY 2001 and FY 2004.
  • Upper South Platte Watershed Project, Pike-San Isabel National Forest
    The Upper South Platte Watershed Project is also an USDA Forest Service Large Scale Watershed Project. As such, it has as its main objectives: reducing sediment input into streams; reducing the spread of noxious weeds; reducing the risk of catastrophic wildfire; and improving habitat for listed threatened and endangered species. Contracts for this sale were awarded in FY 2004.
  • Upper Blue Stewardship, White River National Forest
    The overall objective of the Upper Blue Stewardship Project is to improve forest health, visual quality, wildlife habitat, and fire resilience through greater species and structural diversity within existing forests. Through interdisciplinary planning and landscape scale implementation, the project will test low-impact methods of managing small diameter material within a highly used urban interface zone (i.e., a high-use recreation area).
  • Beaver Meadows, San Juan-Rio, Grande National Forest
    The Beaver Meadows Restoration project is designed to restore existing white fir dominated forests to historical communities of dry, mixed conifer forests dominated by fire-adapted species (e.g., ponderosa pine and Douglas fir). Vegetation management and low-intensity fire will be used to meet project objectives. This project was awarded in FY 2004.
  • Spring Creek/Dry Creek Landscape Improvement Project, Grand Mesa/Uncompahgre/Gunnison National Forest
    Landscape Improvement Project proposes vegetation management treatments to: improve ecological health; treat Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) and hazardous fuels; improve wildlife habitat; re-treat and enhance previous vegetation treatment areas; create treatment demonstration areas, and treat power line and transportation corridor rights-of-way. A contract was awarded in FY 2005.
  • Sugarloaf Fuels Reduction Project, Arapaho-Roosevelt National Forest
    Sugarloaf Fuels Reduction Project will reduce fuels in the Wildland Urban interface. The goal is to promote healthy forest stands through removing vegetation or other activities to reduce fire hazards. This project was awarded in FY 2004.
  • Antelope Salvage & Vegetation Treatment Project, Rio Grande National Forest
    The Antelope Vegetation Treatment Project is approximately is a cooperative project between the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management. The project will reduce the risk of stand replacing fire by removing commercial and non-commercial products, including insect and disease infested trees to reduce stand density. Two contracts were awarded on this project: one in FY 2004 and one in FY 2005.
  • Bark Beetle Analysis Stewardship Project, Medicine Bow & Routt National Forest
    The Bark Beetle Project is intended to reduce local spruce beetle and mountain pine beetle epidemics, and mitigate the detrimental effects on approximately ½ of the Routt National Forest. The project will also maintain water quality and water shed health, sustain the growing stock of timber, and protect wildlife and plant habitats. The Two Bull Stewardship Contracting Projects was awarded in FY 2004.
  • Gould Fuel Reduction Project, Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest
    The objective of the Gould Fuel Reduction Project is to reduce fire hazard in the wildland-urban interface. This project will treat approximately 776 acres of National Forest System lands.

Bureau of Land Management

  • The Antelope/Trickle Project, Saguache Field Office BLM and Saguache Ranger District USFS
    The objectives for this project are to improve wildlife habitat, create stands that maintain insect and disease infestations at endemic levels, to re-introduce regular intervals of fire to maintain structure and health of the stands, and to create stands less susceptible to stand replacing fire. The project area is currently infested with Mountain Pine Beetle, Ponderosa Pine & Douglas-fir dwarf-mistletoes, & Spruce Budworm. This project is the first joint stewardship project that BLM and the Forest Service will try.
  • The Goose Creek Project, Gunnison Field Office
    The objective of this 250 acre project is to continue an ongoing watershed-level vegetation treatment initiative by restoring stands of ponderosa pine & dry site Douglas-fir to a healthier condition, similar to pre European-American settlement. The restoration of the ecosystem composition, structure and function in these areas will accomplished by thinning most trees that started in the late 1800s and reintroducing fire by means of prescribed burning.
  • The Wolf Park Project, Uncompahgre Field Office
    The Wolf Park Fuels Treatment (120 acres) is the third phase of the Wolf Park Fuels Treatment. In 1994, a lightning sparked Wake fire burned 3850 acres of closed canopy pinyon-juniper woodland four miles northeast of Hotchkiss, CO. This project is designed to create breaks in the remaining pinyon-juniper woodland (downwind from the 1994 fire) so that another fire event does not remove the remaining forest & again threaten Hotchkiss and its rural lifestyle.

Location: http://www.forestsandrangelands.gov/stewardship/co.shtml
Last modified: Thursday June 14 2007