It’s something we never really thought about when we were young, but timber prices actually could help our forest health after more than a century of fire suppression and decades of forest decline in Colorado from (you pick it) drought, insects, disease or climate change.

A lot of people in government and the water industry were thinking that the Army Corps of Engineers was thinking about loosening rules on stream modification — Section 404 permits — following the September floods. The Corps, however, says it just ain’t so.  

  BY JEFF THOMAS Story originally appears in the North 40 News on July 24, 2013 There was a good hour of warning before this life-threatening event — a warning everyone who travels Poudre Canyon should take seriously if it happens again: “At 2:07 p.m., the National Weather Service advised that they were tracking a […]