Chainsaw Skills & Safety Class April 6 and 7 This quality, hands-on training will give you the skills you need to effectively and safely use a chainsaw for forest health and property maintenance. Training will be presented in three parts: – Chainsaw Maintenance – cutting safely requires a well running saw. – Chainsaw Safety & Personal Protective Equipment – including things to watch out for while cutting. – Tree Felling & Cutting Skills – classroom review followed by field exercises. Presented by: Eric Philips, Wildfire Mitigation Specialist, Rocky Mountain Resource Protection and Eric Folwell, Wildfire Mitigation Specialist, Rocky Mountain Resource Protection NWCG ENGB and Forestry Consultant to Boulder County The…
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2019 Season Applications Now Open!
Saws and Slaws is now taking applications for neighborhood events for 2019. Now is the time to talk to your neighbors about getting on the schedule for next Spring and Summer. Get out, connect with those in your proximity, and vow to get your properties safer and healthier. Got questions? Call Us! (303) 642-0273. SawsAndSlaws_Application_2019 Curbside Chipping Event Update On September 8th, the good residents of Twin Spruce, all the way up to Dowdle, were given a chance to drag their slash to their own curb and watch it quickly processed in our enormous chipper. The many volunteers of the 501(c)3 organization Saws & Slaws came together once again for a…
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Wildfire Partners Tour of Homes (Boulder County)
Wildfire Partners Tour of Homes Saturday, October 10th 10:00-2:00 Are you interested in wildfire mitigation, but you have questions or concerns? How will it look? Will I have to cut all my trees? What inexpensive retrofits are available to help protect my structures? Come visit Wildfire Partners properties in your community. Check out practical wildfire mitigation measures for yourself. Talk to your neighbors about the lessons they learned and solutions they developed. Twenty Wildfire Partners homeowners throughout Boulder County’s foothills and mountains are participating in our first Wildfire Partners Tour of Home. These homeowners (along with hundreds of other Wildfire Partners) have been working very hard to prepare their property,…
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Saws and Slaws Progress for 2015
Saws and Slaws By Linda Martin, enthusiastic Sawyer Mountain Messenger, Sept 2015 Happy September! The team at Saws and Slaws has continued to be productive again this season helping neighbors with their forest health and fire mitigation and we will keep working on it as long as the weather allows. Last month we did Round 2 in the Hilltop neighborhood and the neighbors there are very pleased with the sheer amounts of fuel removed from their collective forest. A big thanks to Dave Pence who has been a part of the S&S family for many years but as a homeowner in the neighborhood, took extra initiative to make sure his…
