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Partnerships add capacity, increase efficiency on Rio Grande National Forest

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COLORADO—Wood is an essential renewable resource, and the Forest Service is an important part of the timber pipeline. Partnerships are key to ensuring the agency can conduct forest management activities that improve the health of national forests and the communities that surround them. To that end, Rio Grande National Forest and the Colorado State Forest Service recently renewed a Good Neighbor…
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Catching poachers and zapping fish

Wildlife biologist and education coordinator Ashley Mueller celebrates with the 2022 Native American Fish and Wildlife Society National Summer Youth Practicum completion of the Colorado State University ropes course.
Wildlife biologist and education coordinator Ashley Mueller (green hat, big smile) celebrates with the 2022 Native American Fish and Wildlife Society National Summer Youth Practicum completion of the Colorado State University ropes course, where they built comradery, trust and confidence in themselves and their peers. (Photo courtesy of Native American Fish and Wildlife Society) On a July…
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Project protecting Denver water supply receives federal funding

A view of the 2000 High Meadow Fire bordering the treatment area
Mechanical thinning by a piece of equipment known as a processor at the Jerome Miller/Miller Gulch project. A non-profit group called Stewardship West is working to increase the pace and scale of treatment aligned with the Wildfire Crisis Strategy’s Front Range Priority Landscape. (USDA Forest…
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‘Queen of the 14ers’: Outdoors lure employee into 33-year career atop 14,000+ foot mountains

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Loretta McEllhiney surveys flora on San Luis peak in the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre, and Gunnison National Forest. As the Colorado Fourteeners Program manager, she is responsible for not only the safety of trails on 47 Colorado mountains higher than 14,000 feet, but she also has grown into an expert about…
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Colorado Fourteeners

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