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Wildfire Protection and Beetle Control Committees
Joint Meeting - 7PM November 9
Allenspark Fire Station #1

The agenda is posted here.

After a summer and fall without organization meetings, a timely get-together is planned for both the Community Wildfire Protection and Allenspark Beetle Control Committees.

The meeting will be held beginning 7 PM Monday November 9 at the Community Room of the main fire station. Please park west of and well away from the south bay doors to allow emergency responders and their vehicles plenty of space.

There will be important discussions about progress. Included will be ideas to answer the question, "What is the best way to proceed organizationally, from this point forward?"

Consider, many landowners have removed and disposed of their beetle infested trees. To destroy the beetle brood inside green-infested trees slows the epidemic’s rate of expansion. When people do this, especially with a high percentage of effectiveness, it keeps the impacts of beetles in our community at manageable levels. Forest conditions in some neighborhoods reflect successful beetle suppression. It works.

Landowners also have begun voluntary fuel reduction and defensible space action for the long-term protection of their home and family. This goes beyond beetle control. The community sort yard again this year registered high levels of participation. Individuals disposed of slash, beetle infested logs and also recycled excess wood from their properties. To reduce fuel lowers fire danger.

Independent and voluntary action is a good sign of understanding. The next step toward a safer community however will be more difficult: cooperative neighborhood forestry projects. Neighbors can effectively help one another, and do so strategically for fire.

The approved Community Wildfire Protection Plan explains cooperative projects and how to plan one. Initial priority locations are identified. If ever there was a time to follow a plan for community benefit, this is it.

The Allenspark CWPP community includes all landowners who are served by the Allenspark Fire District. That includes people in both Boulder and Larimer Counties. The beetles and fire will not stop at property boundaries or the county line.

If you have not yet decided to take action, now is a good time to become better informed. Get your questions answered. Become part of this community’s success.

Please join in. Your participation November 9 is welcome.

The Sort Yard has closed for the year. It will reopen in the Spring.

The Allenspark Wind has published a Special Edition dedicated to the CWPP. You can read it online now.

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