Controlled Burns on the Front Range

By Richard Martin, 10-04-07

It's the season for controlled burns, and this week's warm dry weather has seen parks and wildlands officials conducting two along the Front Range.

All week a burn has been going on at the new Staunton Park, southwest of Denver along Highway 285, sending billowing clouds of white smoke billowing over the area. About 75 acres of underbrush and leaf litter will burned to thin out the dense ponderosa pine forest in preparation for the opening of the park, which will become the state's 43rd state park.

On Friday the county Parks and Open Space Department will set about 44 acres alight in Betasso Preserve, west of Boulder (and bordering our property in Four Mile Canyon). The preserve will be closed to visitors. [End of article]