To support the safe disposal of 293 slash piles left over from a logging operation adjacent to Shawnee, Colorado. Currently, 293 piles, each pile about 20 feet in diameter and 15 feet high, consisting of wood pine tree branches are scattered every 5- 10 yards in every direction. These piles have been setting out for three years since the logging operations ended. They are tinder dry. The citizens of the National Historic District of Shawnee Colorado are fearful that a major forest fire will engulf them because of these piles of dry wood fuel.
The citizens of Shawnee and Park county, Colorado are trying to avoid the total destruction of their community by fire. The fire would be caused by a large concentration of wood fuel source, the leavings of a Forest Service logging contractor.
This fuel source is located adjacent to Shawnee which by standard prevailing winds is downwind from the fuel source.
We want the US Forest Service to dispose of these piles of wildfire fuel before this summer.
