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Private land owners buy into wildfire mitigation projects in Colorado mountains (Summit Daily News)

A person stands in a forest with piles of cut logs and branches scattered around.
Hannnah Ohlson, the Summit Fire & EMS Wildland Division fuels specialist, walks through burn piles July 15 in Keystone. Three private landowners worked with the agency for fuel mitigation on their adjoining properties. Summit Daily News/Kyle McCabe

 

Wildfire does not care who owns the land. That was what Hannah Ohlson, the Summit Fire & EMS wildlife division fuels specialist, said she likes about a collaborative fuel reduction project that started the week of July 14. Three landowners near The Keystone Center on Saints John Road in Keystone collaborated with Summit Fire & EMS to work on a fuels reduction project across 30 acres of their collective land. Ohlson said separate conversations with the town of Keystone, which is taking over land currently owned by the Keystone Policy Center, and the Sts. John Condominium Association about reducing wildfire risk sparked the idea to reduce wildfire fuels on neighboring properties. Looking at a map and seeing surrounding land owned by Keystone Resort brought in Vail Resorts. Read more...