- Allenspark Beetle Control News -
Sort Yard Opens May 4, 2010
Meeker Park Community Forestry Sort Yard to reopen May
4.
Boulder County Forest Health Initiative is pleased to announce that the
popular Meeker Park Community Forestry Sort Yard (CFSY) will open for the 2010
season on Tuesday, May 4.
CFSY are being established in Boulder County to help private forest
landowners become more active stewards of their land and to provide a free of
charge location to dispose of trees cut from their land during forest health
improvement, bark beetle, and defensible space cutting projects.
The Meeker Park CFSY is located on the Peak-to-Peak Highway just north of
Allenspark. The opening date is dependent on weather
and may change if snowy or muddy conditions create access issues at the yard.
Please visit http://www.BoulderCounty.org/ForestHealth
for the most up-to-date operational information. The CFSY will operate 5 days a
week, Tuesday-Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m through
mid-July, 2010.
Boulder County's CFSY program is a collaborative effort with Peak to Peak
Wood and aims to increase utilization of locally produced sustainable wood
products. Please visit www.peaktopeakwood.org
before starting your cutting projects to learn about cutting trees to
specifications that will allow them to be utilized at their highest market
value.
The new south Boulder County, Nederland CFSY, located on Ridge Road just
north of Nederland, is anticipated to open in August and will operate at this
location into October.
If there are questions about Boulder County's CFSY please contact Ryan
Ludlow, Boulder County's Forestry Education and Outreach Coordinator at
720-564-2641 or e-mail pinebeetle@bouldercounty.org.
After April, it's too late to treat with plastic!
When May rolls around, there just isn't
enough time to cook the beetles by covering logs with plastic. The beetles are
grown enough to chomp through bark, so a thin piece of plastic doesn't slow 'em down at all! Please chip or use other approved methods
to keep the bugs from spreading.
Bugs 202: Or
"What else is out there besides pine beetles?"
On December 8, 2008, Ingrid Aguayo, Entomologist,
Colorado State Forest Service, came to Allenspark to
speak to the ABC about the other bugs we've found while battling pine beetles.
In an excellent presentation, she gave us an overview of the bugs and bug
problems that we may see when trying to diagnose our ill or dying trees.
Ingrid's PowerPoint presentation "Ips 202" is now
available for download as a pdf file. In it you will
find illustrations and facts about the ips beetle and
others.
Clarification: The
lethal temperature for bugs is 60 degrees Celsius, which is 140 degrees
Fahrenheit.
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information on trees inspected, infested, and treated, we can measure our
progress. Please click here to find out how: report numbers
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