The Ponderosa Pine Forest Partnership
![[Photo]: Henry's Fork](/common/images/ponderosa-pine-pshp.jpg)
The Ponderosa Pine Forest Partnership is a ground-breaking
effort to restore pre-1870 characteristics and functions
of ponderosa pine on 493 acres of national forest and private
land in southwest Colorado so that fire could be allowed
to regain its natural role in creating a healthy forest.
Since initial efforts, nearly 8,000 acres have been treated
or been prepared for treatment. The US Forest Service, Colorado
State Forest Service, local loggers and millers, and college
researchers and coordinators conceived and conducted the
demonstration to apply a new silvicultural prescription and
to use local logging businesses to thin thick, overgrown
stands of small-diameter pine, then to conduct research to
make harvesting more cost efficient and to find new products
and markets for small-diameter pine, all with the goal of
learning how to make this new restoration harvest approach
pay for itself.
Visit the University
of Michigan's website for more information about this
project.
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PARTNERING WITH THE FOREST SERVICE
