Where does the traditional Red Barn come from? Centuries ago, European farmers would seal the wood on their barns with an oil, often linseed oil – a tawny-colored oil derived from the seed of the flax plant. They would paint their barns with a linseed-oil mixture, often consisting of additions such as milk and lime. [...]
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The Meeker Park community forestry sort yard will open on Tuesday, May 4 (weather dependent). For the third year in a row, residents of Boulder and Larimer counties can use the site at no charge to drop off trees and slash from private lands. The sort yard will remain open through mid-July. Community sort yards were established by the Boulder County Forest Health Initiative to help give landowners a place to dispose of trees cut from their forested lands for forest health improvement, bark beetle mitigation and wildfire protection purposes.
Opening Day – Tuesday, May 4 (weather dependent)
The sort yard is located on the east side of Peak-to-Peak Highway (Hwy. 7), just north of Allenspark and Meeker Park near the Boulder/Larimer County line.
The hours of operation are:
Note: The opening date may change if snowy or muddy conditions impede access to the yard. Visit www.BoulderCounty.org/ForestHealth for up-to-date operational information.
This year, Boulder County is adding a second sort yard site to better serve residents in the south end of the county. The new sort yard, located on Ridge Road, north of Nederland, is anticipated to open in August and will operate into October.
The sort yards will accept any size trees with no diameter limit, although the county prefers logs that are cut in 8, 10 or 12 foot lengths (with an additional 3″ to 6″ trim to allow for lumberyard operations) with branches cut flush with the trunk because these can be used for posts and poles. Trees will be processed based on their condition or value for other applications.
Boulder County’s community sort yard program is a collaborative effort with Peak to Peak Wood, aimed at increasing utilization of locally produced sustainable wood products. Visit www.peaktopeakwood.org to learn more about cutting trees to specifications that will allow the wood to be utilized at its highest market value.
For more information about the sort yards, visit: www.bouldercounty.org/foresthealth, call Ryan Ludlow, forestry education and outreach coordinator at 720-564-2641 or email: pinebeetle@bouldercounty.org.
Boulder County, Colo. – The Paradigm Pilot project, a Boulder County Housing & Human Services Housing Development project, has received the Second Place award in the Denver Regional Council of Government’s (DRCOG) 2010 Local Government Awards Program for Collaboration. The ‘Paradigm Pilot Project: A Blueprint for Change’ follows the design, development and testing of new sustainable building technologies in two affordable housing units of the Boulder County Housing Authority (BCHA). The duplex and single-family affordable housing units are located at 900 Avalon in Lafayette, CO. Boulder County Housing Development partnered with the City of Denver, City of Lafayette, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Boulder County Workforce, Boulder County Transportation Department, and Boulder County Architects in this innovative project. Paradigm Pilot involved the construction of energy efficient affordable housing units partly funded by Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF) funds. The renewable energy features include passive solar, systems built (modular) construction, performance building design, and the use of photovoltaic and geothermal loops. The Paradigm Pilot project’s development timeline was less than a year – from comprehensive plan amendment in November 2008 to certificate of occupancy in September 2009. “Paradigm allowed us to test new sustainable technologies and building construction methods we hope to implement in the 153-unit Josephine Commons project in Lafayette,” said Scott Simkus, BCHA’s Housing Development Manager. “It laid the foundation for economies of scale while implementing renewable energy and advanced building technologies for a mass production environment.” Boulder County, Colo. – Colorado Children’s Day at Boulder is this Friday, April 30 from noon until 4 p.m. on the Pearl Street Mall between 13th and 15th streets. The event is completely free and activities include puppet making, face painting, games, prizes and more. Children’s Day is followed by Boulder County Family Week, a celebration of local youth beginning Saturday, May 1 and continuing through Friday, May 7. Family Week highlights children-focused businesses, agencies and support systems in Boulder County. Information sharing is encouraged for children-focused services and opportunities. “These events are to reflect on the special value that our children bring to our lives and our future,” local Kiwanis Club chairman Ken Hotaling said. “We all need to celebrate their accomplishments and nourish them in their quest to learn.” Family Week events are scheduled throughout Boulder County. Please visit http://sites.google.com/site/ccdbcfamilyweek/ for more information. Family Week is sponsored by the Kiwanis Club, Boulder County, Boulder Valley and St. Vrain Valley school districts, the cities of Boulder, Longmont and Louisville, the towns of Nederland and Lyons, and the Daily [...] The different stages of a fire in the sky colorful Boulder County sunset behind the silhouette of large cottonwood trees. Buy these reasonably priced fine art Boulder County Nature landscape photography prints to decorate your office walls, home walls, cafe, restaurant, boardroom, waiting room or almost any commercial space. With Fast, Secure world wide shipping to your door. Wall prints are also a great gift idea. Just click on the image to custom [...] An Erie man who pleaded guilty to four felony counts of securities fraud in a scheme in which he bilked investors out of $10 million was sentenced to 32 years in prison [...] A couple weeks ago, we hauled a horse trailer down to our friend Bucky’s ranch in southern Arizona, near the Chiricahua Mountains (no spell check, it’s NOT the “Chihuahua Mountains”). He runs trail rides into the National Monument, and into the [...] Erie Cemetery aka Mount Pleasant Cemetery. This cemetery is right out of an old western movie. You can view all of Boulder County from this amazing spot. It was until 1927, that a horse and wagon were used to take the dead to their final resting place. Many of the tombstones are representative of the [...] Boulder County, Colo. – The Boulder County Resource Conservation Division and the City of Boulder are hosting the annual spring backyard compost bin sale this Saturday, May 1, from 9 a.m. until noon at the new ReSource Yard location at 6400 Arapahoe Road. SoilSaver bins will be available for $50 each including tax. Only checks and cash will be accepted. Bins will be sold on a first-come, first-serve basis. No early sales. What: Backyard compost bin sale Background When organic materials such as food waste and leaves are sent to the landfill they are buried along with the trash and they break down in a way that produces methane, a greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change. Composting does not create methane because it is a natural decomposition process that changes the food and yard waste back into soil. For more information visit www.bouldercountyrecycles.net or contact Susan Meissner at smeissner@bouldercounty.org or [...] Boulder County, Colo. – During a ceremony on April 22, the Boulder County Commissioners recognized the important role that volunteers play in the community by awarding $6,000 for 17 programs. Every year Boulder County invites volunteers involved in county programs to submit proposals requesting up to $500 per proposal for special projects or to defray the cost of materials, fees and equipment. Funding is capped at $6,000. The volunteers whose proposals are chosen are individually recognized during National Volunteer Week and the funding goes to the programs in which they participate. The volunteer recipients for this year are listed below in alphabetical order: -Fay Benson, Parks & Open Space, Extension, 4-H – $500 for water quality experiment supplies so that youth can participate in this year’s 4-H National Youth Science Day; -Conrad Bishop & Chris Randall, Parks & Open Space, Park Patrollers: Anglers – $300 for vests that identify these volunteers as Park Patroller volunteers; -Walter Boner, Jr. & Raven Starr, Public Health, Medical Reserve Corps of Boulder County – $500 for emergency blankets and first aid kit supplies for their emergency “ready” bags; -Amanda Carroll & Kristin Nelson, Community Services, Community Justice Services, Juvenile Assessment Center (Justice System Volunteer Program) – $300 for various books and DVDs addressing social justice issues to be used for the special activities programming; -Matthew Diemer, Public Health, Open and Affirming Sexual Orientation and gender identity Support (OASOS) – $250 for gender-identity themed fiction books and DVDs for youth to increase the long-term resources within the program; -Nicole Drake, Community Services, Community Justice Services, Juvenile Assessment Center (Justice System Volunteer Program) – $400 for gardening tools for youth to create and maintain a garden. This activity will help them learn about growing their own food, composting, and sustainability; -K.C. Dutcher & Kirsten Larsen, Community Services, Community Justice Services, CS Mentoring Program (Justice System Volunteer Program) – $400 for mentors and mentees to receive low-dollar value tickets to local theaters and a local pottery studio. This award will help those pairs who could not afford to do this without financial assistance; -Fran Eichenauer, Community Services, Aging Services Division, Long-Term Care Ombudsman – $225 to be applied toward the conference fee of a 3-day training that will focus on helping to deinstitutionalize the culture and environment of living in a long-term care facility; -Carol England, Parks & Open Space, Cultural History – $200 for artifact cataloging software and a manual for museum registration methods to assist with the management of artifact collection; -Eric Etchill, Public Health, Addiction Recovery Center – $300 for the creation of materials and the purchase of books on substance abuse and addiction resources specific to Native American culture and customs; -Jo Ferranto, Parks & Open Space, WildWork – $425 for additional tools for fence removal projects; -Brittni Hernandez – Housing & Human Services, Casa de la Esperanza – $500 for scientific and graphing calculators, bilingual dictionaries and thesauruses, school supplies, and educational software to enrich classes and activities; -Paula McKey, Bill Peterson & Mark Siebold, Parks & Open Space, Partnership Initiative and WildWork – $150 for several Parks-related books that can be given away as prizes to encourage more volunteers to complete the online volunteer project evaluation. Winners will be drawn at random; -Adrienne Mihelic, Public Health, Community Health, Tobacco Education and Prevention Partnership – $500 for cameras, photo developing, presentation materials, and T-shirts for a youth photovoice project regarding youth tobacco use; -Ruth Newell, Parks & Open Space, Cultural History – $350 for artifacts such as a washboard, antique grain mill, and branding iron to create an artifacts kit; -John Stransky – Parks & Open Space, Park Patrollers: Horse Patrol – $200 for long-sleeved shirts that identify these volunteers as Park Patroller volunteers; -Danette Tye, Sheriff’s Office, On-Scene Victim Assistance – $500 for shirts that identify volunteers as Victim Advocate [...] |
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