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US Forest Service Forester

Posted on: July 10th, 2012
Monday, July 23rd 7:00 – 9:00
Join us for a presentation by US Forest Service Forester, Kevin Zimlinghaus and meet our new Ranger Sylvia Clark. Learn about past, current and future forest health and fuels reduction projects in the Gold Hill Fire Protection District.
What: Presentation followed by Questions/Answers
When: Monday, July 23rd 7:00 to 9:00
Where: Fire Barn Community Center
Please join your Gold Hill Fire Protection District neighbors in welcoming US Forest Service Forester Kevin Zimlinghaus. Kevin has been with the Forest Service for 25 years. For three of those years, Kevin was on a California Tahoe Hotshot crew fighting wildland fires. For the past decade in Colorado, his job has been forest management including reforestation and implementing forest health and fuels reduction prescriptions.
Hear about US Forest Service projects completed and planned for in the near future in our district.

Learn about forest health issues such as biomass and the treatment of woody fuels.

Learn about defensible space and the thinning of trees done on Forest Service lands.

Learn about current treatments, equipment use and associated costs. 
Provide feedback to the US Forest Service and ask questions.
and…. if you have read this far, know that we will have snacks to further entice you to take time out of your busy schedule and come.
Kris Gibson-CWPP Representative GHFPD
303-545-9670 kgkeewee@nullnetzero.net
Kevin Zimlinghaus:/South Zone Vegetation Implementation Staff/Silviculturist.
South Zone is made up of the Boulder and Clear Creek Ranger Districts of the Arapaho-Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland.kzimlinghaus@nullfs.fed.us 303-541-2537