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Major logging operations continue in beetle-kill areas
One of the few lodgepole seedlings to survive the industrial clearcutting on the north shore of the Frisco Peninsula.
SUMMIT COUNTY — Logging crews have worked their way around the Frisco Peninsula to the northeast-facing shore and are cutting down to within a few feet of the trail and the boundary with Denver Water land. The logging is several miles away from the nearest neighborhood. There are no power lines in the area, and no streams, although the clear-cutting could protect Dillon Reservoir from the direct impacts of a fire in that particular area. Here’s a look at how it’s going. (more…)
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