Larimer County sites

Two Larimer County sites close for the year

The Larimer County Department of Natural Resources has closed the Red Feather Lakes site and the Stove Prairie sites for 2010.

 The City of Estes Park has also opened a site for dead and pine beetle-infested trees coming from the greater Estes Park Valley.

The sort yards in Larimer County are part of a five-county effort working with the Colorado State Forest Service and Colorado Parks through a grant received by Colorado Parks. The intent of the grant is to promote forest health by encouraging land owners to thin their forested lands. Most forested lands along the Front Range are at a stocking level 2 to 3 times higher then a healthy stand should be. In addition to Larimer, Boulder, Clear Creek, Jefferson and Gilpin counties are part of the Peak to Peak Wood effort.

Landowners should thin their property and bring their round wood (logs) to the sort yard. The grant for this project calls for the logs to then be transferred to an end user who will produce products from the wood. The Colorado State Forest Service is working hard to develop a long term market for the small diameter logs. Please visit the Peak to Peak Wood web site at www.peaktopeakwood.org for additional information including log specifications.

During the mountain pine beetle flight (roughly now through the end of September) no infested logs will be accepted at the sites. The Stove Prairie site is not intended to be a slash disposal site, please continue to use the slash site in Rist Canyon.