A New Kind of Collaborative in Colorado

A New Kind of Collaborative in Colorado

How a Community Planning Project Spawned a Forest Health Collaborative Christopher Ketcham’s guest column in the Fall 2022 edition of Forest News struck a chord with me. Ketcham’s column, excerpted from his book, This Land, reveals how forest health collaboratives...
White River National Forest is Nation’s Busiest

White River National Forest is Nation’s Busiest

A recently published economic analysis shows White River National Forest attracts the most visitors and produces the greatest economic impact of any U.S. national forest. Based on pre-pandemic data from fiscal year 2019, the report attributes more than 12 million...
State Park is First on Forest Service Land

State Park is First on Forest Service Land

Colorado’s 43rd state park is the first of its kind — it sits on Forest Service land. In 2021, the White River National Forest took ownership of the 488-acre Sweetwater Lake parcel adjacent to the Flat Tops Wilderness. The state park designation is the result of work...