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Sort Yards close Oct. 18

Posted on: October 7th, 2014

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   October 7, 2014    Contact: Ryan Ludlow, Land Use, 720-564-2641

Nederland and Allenspark Sort Yards Season Ends Oct. 18

Don’t wait; haul your logs, slash, and pine needles to a sort yard before the sites close for the season

Boulder County, Colo. – The Boulder County Community Sort Yard program, a free log and slash disposal service for mountain residents, is in its final days of operation for the 2014 collection season. Both the Nederland and Allenspark sort yards are scheduled to close at 5 p.m. on Saturday, October 18.

County residents can drop off tree branches, logs, and yard waste (pine needles, cut grass, pine cones) free of charge at either sort yard location.

This summer marks the seventh consecutive year that Boulder County has operated sort yards in the mountains, and has proven to be another very successful year of backyard forest management. By the end of August, more than 600 individual land owners/stewards dropped off more than 3,300 loads of material at both sort yards.

“The fall is the perfect time of year to be out on your land cutting. The weather is cool and bark beetles are less active,” said Ryan Ludlow, outreach forester with the county’s Land Use Department. “We hope mountain residents are able to take advantage of remaining days of operation. We typically see a major uptick in usage as we approach closing day.”

Allenspark/Meeker Park Area Sort Yard – 8200 Hwy 7, Allenspark

  • Last Day Open is Saturday, Oct. 18
  • Hours of Operation: Wednesday thru Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Nederland Area Sort Yard – 291 Ridge Road, Nederland

  • Last Day Open is Saturday, Oct. 18
  • Hours of Operation: Wednesday thru Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

For more information about the sort yard program or how to implement proactive wildfire mitigation on your land, contact Ryan Ludlow, Boulder County Forest Health Initiative’s outreach forester, at 720-564-2641 or rludlow@nullbouldercounty.org.

Both sort yards may have additional closures due to early season snowfall. To check the operational status, please call 303-678-6368.

–BoulderCounty.org–