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Welcome
to the Small Diameter Harvesting Demonstration Home Page.
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The
Small Scale Harvesting Demonstration, held at Genesee Mountain Community,
was a great success. Over 100 people participated in the event.
Objectives:
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To provide possible solutions to those interested in addressing the hazardous
fuel build up along the Front Range
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To provide a location where consultants, agency representatives and home
owners can meet and discuss the issue
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To provide media coverage to inform the public of issues and possible solutions
for situation
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To collect information of the effectiveness of the equipment that will
be demonstrated
Background:
Forest restoration
projects deal with a variety of issues pertaining to water quality, wildlife
habitat, forest health and, in particular, wildfire mitigation. Removal
or thinning of trees in overly dense forests can help reduce fuel loads
and the risk of catastrophic, high intensity wildfire. Forest thinning
projects can be expensive especially in the Front Range wildland-urban
interface where the bulk of the removals involve small diameter trees that
have low wood product value and high removal costs. These high costs
have been a deterrent to accomplishing widespread restoration efforts.
If more cost effective harvesting systems were available, possibly more
area could be treated to meet forest restoration objectives. The
demonstration has been designed to evaluate innovative equipment in the
small scale harvesting arena.
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