Rocky Mountain National Park announced its hazardous fuel reduction projects is taking place this fall and winter. The projects take place on and near Deer Mountain as well as west of the Allenspark Trailhead. Fuel.
Rocky Mountain National Park announces that hazardous fuels reduction projects are planned to take place in strategic locations this fall and winter season within Rocky Mountain National Park on and near Deer Mountain, as well as within the park boundary west of the Allenspark Trailhead. The reduction of hazardous fuels is a significant preventative management […]
RMNP Announces Winter Pile Burning Operations
With the colder and wetter conditions, fire managers from Rocky Mountain National Park are taking full advantage of that and burning piles of slash from fuels reduction projects and hazard tree removal. Slash have been being piled from these projects for about the past two years and are now ready to burn.
According to an official press release from Rocky Mountain National Park, these types of projects were a big factor in helping contain the East Troublesome Fire and the Fern Lake Fire back in 2012 from jumping Bear Lake Road and Trail Ridge Road.