Buying local products helps our program

“Our program has seen steady growth in the amount of wood we’ve moved into Front Range markets over the last three years,” said Program Director Craig Jones. “Without the money we receive from these producers for logs, we would not have been able to continue the program.”

The Peak to Peak program, funded by the Colorado State Forest Service, helps maintain public sort yards in the mountains of Larimer, Boulder and Gilpin counties by subsidizing the transportation of logs to Front Range wood processors. The program enables forest landowners to take logs to the nearby sort yards at no cost, while helping to move the wood into product streams that can create local goods and jobs.

Many of the processors have been highly creative in using material from the sites, including United Wood Products of Longmont, which has built tables from previously unusable slabs. Both United and Old Tyme Lumber, located near Rocky Flats off Highway 93, have a number of blue-stained products that are created from beetle-kill wood, including interior and exterior siding.

In Larimer County, Rocks ‘n Pine, located near LaPorte, has fencing products and other post and pole materials available, as well as firewood available in bulk by delivery and at the processing yard, or at a number of retail outlets. Next door to Rocks ‘n Pine, Shreiner and Sons also has bulk firewood sales at the yard or by delivery, and the business provides most of the Safeway stores in Colorado with their packaged firewood.

So please support these local businesses. The forest you save may be the one you enjoy the most.