Tuesday, June 21, 2022

Officials plan forest thinning projects to reduce wildfire threats caused by dead, diseased trees in Breckenridge

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This summer, fuels reduction projects will take place near Breckenridge, adding more measures to project homes and infrastructure in the wildlife-urban interface. 

Over the next few weeks, crews will be out on land near Airport Road and the Peabody Placer area of the Golden Horseshoe to work on fuels reduction, removing dead and diseased trees from the lands to reduce wildfire risk. 

This project is being funded as a part of Denver Water’s Forest to Faucets II program and Summit County 1A Strong Future Fund. Signed in 2017, the second Forest to Faucets agreement expanded the original program to include the Colorado State Forest Service and the Natural Resources Conservation Service. Over the next five years, the partners have committed to invest $33 million in forest management projects to restore more than 40,000 acres of forestland, according to Denver Water.

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