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CITY OF BOULDER
Boulder’s
Open Space and Mountain Parks Division and the Wildland Fire Division
provide both operational and administrative support to this important
project. These city divisions adopted a Ecosystem Management Plan in 1999,
and their resource managers have been busy implementing prescribed burns,
thinning, wildlife habitat improvement and noxious weed control activities.
In addition to the resource managers at the Open Space and Mt. Parks Department,
the City Fire Department’s Wildland Fire Division has provided its mitigation
crew and prescribed fire expertise to the interagency effort.
Burton Stoner, a resource specialist and naturalist with the Open Space and Mt. Parks Department, has been involved with the Boulder County Ecosystem Cooperative since 1996 and helps coordinate management activities throughout the city’s Mt. Parks system. Burton was particularly involved with producing the Ecosystem Management Plan adopted in 1999 and has assisted with the Forest Management Information and Demonstration Fair the past two years. Rod Moraga and Chris Wanner are also key contacts for the City of Boulder in this effort.
Links:
 Eldorado
Canyon State Park is currently conducting wildfire mitigation
and noxious weed control activities. The state park just south of
Boulder is a popular recreation and climbing area. |
 The
Colorado State Forest Service
provides technical assistance to
private landowners throughout the state. Craig Jones of the CSFS Boulder
District serves as Interagency Project Coordinator.
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 The
U.S. Forest Service manages approximately
10,000 acres of public land across the project area. Ecosystem health,
wildlife habitat improvement, wildfire mitigation and responsible
recreation use are of primary concern to this land management agency. |
 Boulder
County is a key partner is the ecosystem management effort,
with extensive and ongoing efforts on its Walker Ranch and Reynolds
Ranch open space properties. |
 The
City of Boulder provides significant
support to this overall effort. The newly formed Open Space and Mt.
Parks Department and the Wildland Fire Division are conducting thinning,
prescribed burns and noxious weed control activities on the nearly
4,400 acres of land within the project boundaries.
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 Denver
Water owns and manages nearly 1,200
acres of property, including Gross Reservoir and the surrounding land.
Primary areas of focus for Denver Water here is wildfire mitigation
and watershed health and improvement. |
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The Boulder County Ecosystem Cooperative (BCEC) -- the parent organization of the Winiger Ridge Project -- was established to identify and promote innovative ecosystem restoration management opportunities. A consortium of environmental groups, private and public land owners collaborated to form goals for the BCEC. |
There are five Fire Protection Districts in the Winiger Ridge Project area. These FPD's provide operational support and assist with education activities involving wildfire mitigation. The Cherryvale FPD has been involved with the project since the formation of the Boulder County Ecosystem Cooperative and is actively involved in this partnership effort |
Private landowners are a key constituent to the project. In order to implement stewardship across boundaries, landowners and homeowner associations are encouraged to work with public land management agencies to improve ecosystem health and reduce wildfire hazard. |
