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<br />~ <br /> <br />SERVICE <br /> <br />Colorado State Forest Service <br />5060 Campus Dcli vcry <br />Colorado Statc Univcrsity <br />Fort Collins. CO 80523-5060 <br />970.491.6303: FAX 970.491.7736 <br />http:// csfs.colostatc.cd u/ <br /> <br />For Immcdiatc Rclcasc <br />August 21, 2007 <br /> <br /> <br />Contact: Katherine Timm <br />970.217.2874 <br />kathcrinc. timm(tV,colosta tc.cd u <br /> <br />Colorado Statc Forcst Scrvicc Awards $1 Million in Grant Funds for Community Forcst <br />Rcstoration and Watcr Protcction Projccts <br /> <br />FORT COLLINS, Colo. - The Colorado State Forest Service is awarding S 1 million in grants to fund <br />12 forest restoration projects that protect critical water supplies and address related forest health <br />challenges in Colorado. The funds were made available through the Colorado Community Forest <br />Restoration grant program established by the Colorado General Assembly through House Bill 07-1130. <br /> <br />"We are pleased with the number and scope of quality applications we received this year - the inaugural <br />year of the program," said Jeff Jahnke, director of the Colorado State Forest Service at Colorado State <br />University. "These grant funds provide landowners and other stakeholders an opportunity to help address <br />Colorado's critical forest health challenges and protect water supplies." <br /> <br />Projects funded by the grant include: <br />. Dalla Park Fire Mitigation, LaPlata County <br />. Forest and Community Protection Plan, Lake County <br />. Grand Junction Watershed and Fuel Reduction Program, Mesa County <br />. Grand Lake Beetle Kill Removal Project, Grand County <br />. Heil Valley Ranch 2008 Fuels Reduction-Unit 2, Boulder County <br />. Horsetooth Mountain Park Fuels Reduction, Larimer County <br />. Platte Canyon Fire/Forest Restoration and Water Protection Project, Park County <br />. Santa Fe Trails Ranch Fuel Break Project, Las Animas <br />. Straight Creek Forest Restoration Project, Summit County <br />. Summit County Hazardous Fuels Reduction Project, Summit County <br />. Upper South Platte Watershed Forest Health Initiative, Park and Teller counties <br />. West Vail and Lower Gore Creek Fuel Reduction Project, Eagle County <br /> <br />"The quality of the 46 applications we received was impressive and I'm confident that the projects <br />selected for funding will have a positive impact on our state's forests and watersheds," said Paul Orbuch, <br />assistant director of the Colorado Department of Natural Resources and chair of the technical advisory <br />panel that reviewed the applications. <br /> <br />Joining Orbuch on the technical advisory panel were Jeff Kitchens, Bureau of Land Management; Susan <br />Gray, U.S. Forest Service; Merrill Kauffman, Rocky Mountain Research Station (emeritus); Dan Binkley, <br />Colorado State University; Tom Fry, The Wildemess Society; Tom Clark, Mayor of Kremmling; and <br />Nancy Fishering, Colorado Timber Industry. <br /> <br />-more- <br />