Restoration Needs

Uncompaghre Mesas Collaborative Forest Restoration Project Photos from 11/30/11

Treated Unit

• There is a need within the project area to re-establish vegetation composition, structure, spatial pattern, and ecological processes necessary to make terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems sustainable, resilient, and healthy under current and future conditions.
• There is a need to increase abundance and improve diversity of grasses, forbs, and
  shrubs in the forest understory.

Unit In-Progress

• There is a need to provide wood to local timber companies.
• There is a desire to generate revenue to help fund restoration treatments in the project area by harvesting trees before the commercial potential of stands is lost.
• There is a need to maintain or improve habitat for threatened and endangered species, Forest-Service sensitive species, and other game and non-game species.

Untreated Unit

• There is a need to manage vegetation in a manner that will provide or maintain a
  healthy, diverse ecosystem resistant to insects, diseases, and other natural
  and human impacts.