Sort yard community meeting scheduled for July 12 in Nederland

Boulder County, Colo. – The Boulder County Forest Health Initiative invites Nederland-area residents to attend a community meeting to discuss the first year of operations of the Nederland Area Community Forestry Sort Yard program.

What: Community meeting for residents to provide input on operations at the Nederland Area Community Forestry Sort Yard

When: Tuesday, July 12, 7 p.m.

Where: Nederland Community Center, 750 Highway 72 North

The sort yard was opened this year as a new service for residents in the Nederland area, and the county wants to make sure it is providing residents with the most useful, best practices possible for collecting and processing logs and slash cut from their lands.

County staff will kick off the meeting with a presentation about sort yard usage, total days of operation and the amount of material collected during the first year of operation. The second part of the meeting will focus on gathering public feedback about how the first year of operations went for residents in the Nederland community.

No RSVP is needed to attend. Community members may email comments and suggestions prior to the meeting to pinebeetle@nullbouldercounty.org.

The Community Forestry Sort Yard program was established by Boulder County to help landowners fight bark beetle infestations, create better defensible space around homes and communities and to help create healthier forest conditions in the foothills of the county. Two sort yard locations are open each summer on a rotating schedule to provide residents a convenient free of charge location to dispose of logs and slash cut from their land.

For more information about the program, bark beetle management or general questions backyard forest management, contact Boulder County Outreach Forester Ryan Ludlow at 720-564-2641 or pinebeetle@nullbouldercounty.org.

-BoulderCounty.org-