The Monarch Pass Forest & Watershed Health Project is a collaborative effort to address extreme forest degradation in the Upper Arkansas River Basin, along the Continental Divide.
The project aims to reduce the extent of the insect infestation and improve forest and watershed health, reduce fuel loading, protect infrastructure and provide for firefighter and public safety. The impaired forested area is located on steep slopes on Monarch Pass. Historically, it has been too expensive and unsafe to treat these steep slopes. This project is geared toward solving these issues by introducing new technology and equipment to Colorado that can safely and effectively treat steep slopes at a significantly reduced cost and with less environmental disturbance.
This flagship project utilizes new fuel reduction techniques, promotes forest products and technologies industries, and forges integrated partnerships to leverage funding and reduce the threat of catastrophic forest fires, with the ultimate goal of watershed health protection. The project brings together a diverse group of stakeholders and funding sources that will continue to work on forest and watershed health projects across the Basin. Working within a timeline to protect sensitive periods for wildlife, will begin late summer 2020.
The project aims to reduce the extent of the insect infestation and improve forest and watershed health, reduce fuel loading, protect infrastructure and provide for firefighter and public safety. The impaired forested area is located on steep slopes on Monarch Pass. Historically, it has been too expensive and unsafe to treat these steep slopes. This project is geared toward solving these issues by introducing new technology and equipment to Colorado that can safely and effectively treat steep slopes at a significantly reduced cost and with less environmental disturbance.
This flagship project utilizes new fuel reduction techniques, promotes forest products and technologies industries, and forges integrated partnerships to leverage funding and reduce the threat of catastrophic forest fires, with the ultimate goal of watershed health protection. The project brings together a diverse group of stakeholders and funding sources that will continue to work on forest and watershed health projects across the Basin. Working within a timeline to protect sensitive periods for wildlife, will begin late summer 2020.
