Online Resources for Forestry

San Juan National Forest

This is the US Forest Service website for the San Juan National Forest. Included in the site is a forest planning section that details current forest plans and amendments.

Rio Grande National Forest

The Rio Grande National Forest (NF) is 1.86 million acres located in southwestern Colorado and remains one of the true undiscovered jewels of Colorado. The Continental Divide runs for 236 miles along most of the western border of the Forest. The Forest presents myriad ecosystems; from 7600-ft alpine desert to over 14,300-ft in the majestic Sangre de Cristo Wilderness on the eastern side. The Forest embraces the San Luis Valley, the largest agricultural alpine valley in the world and includes all or parts of four Wilderness Areas (South San Juan, Weminuche, La Garita and Sangre de Cristo). The Forest also is the headwaters of the Rio Grande River and has the moonscape wonder of the Wheeler Geologic Area, established by Theodore Roosevelt in 1911.

Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre & Gunnison National Forests (GMUG)

The Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests are a combination of separate National Forests located on the western slope of the Colorado Rockies. These three combined Forests cover 3,161,912 acres of public land in the central and southern Rocky Mountains, an area that lies south of the Colorado River and west of the Continental Divide with some of the most spectacular scenery in the Rockies.

BLM

The San Juan Field Office (SJFO) is responsible for the management and stewardship of more than 664,000 acres of public lands in southwestern Colorado. The SJFO also administers more than 300,000 acres of federal mineral estate underlying private lands (split-estate lands) and has trust responsibility for mineral management on 800,000 acres of Tribal lands.

Southwest Colorado Fires Website

The southwestcoloradosfires.org Website informs citizens, government agencies and leaders, and any interested people about current efforts to prevent unwanted damages from wildfire on private and public lands. The Website is also an information center about on-going efforts to rehabilitate the land in the aftermath of the Missionary Ridge and Valley fires in southwest Colorado.

Community & Ecosystem Stewardship Website

This is a project of the Office of Community Services at Fort Lewis college. The site describes local efforts in community-public land stewardship involving the San Juan Public Lands Center along with scientists and citizens working together to agree upon and attain goals and objectives that are environmentally responsible, socially acceptable, and economically viable.

Uncompahgre Plateau Project

The Uncompahgre Plateau Project (UP) website is one of the tools UP is using to inform and update the public on its on-going efforts; provide interested citizens with information and educational opportunities on issues regarding natural resource management, collaboration and sound decision making; and illustrate the Plateau’s ecological, economic and social aspects.