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Letter: Commercial wood use helps reduce wildfire threat
Durango, Colorado Sat 1% chance of precipitation
Saturday, April 24, 2021 5:03 AM
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Residence and forest products businesses can be excited about the efforts taking place in Southwest Colorado addressing our wildfire threat and community protection.
The degree of consensus and the amount of resources in play are at their greatest here. Southwest Colorado hosts a small cluster of sawmills, wood products businesses and harvesting contractors. This includes sawmills that have been in operation for decades longer that a lot of us can call Southwest Colorado home, as well as new business startups making products for developing markets in biochar and cross-laminated timber.
Letter: Wildfire fund will help mitigate the inevitable
Durango, Colorado Currently Tue
Tuesday, April 6, 2021 11:03 AM
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Thank you for your story about the Southwest Wildfire Impact Fund (SWIF) (March 25,”Durango, La Plata County look to new funding model for fire mitigation”).
In 2020, Colorado broke its record for the largest wildfire three times.
Past fire suppression policies and a lack of active management have left us with unnaturally dense forests or, in simpler terms, a lot of fuel out there. If we do what we have always done, we will get what we’ve always gotten!