BSR has again received recognition of our continuing efforts to provide homeowners and surrounding communities with improved wildfire defense. Thank you for your continuing efforts to make BSR safer and more attractive by cleaning up your properties and properly stacking dead-fall for the DNR chipping program.
A large part of our efforts is the Spring Cleanup event. Please see the 2017 Spring Cleanup post for more information on this event and details of stacking. We look forward to seeing everyone at the cleanup!
DNR will be back again this year to assist with chipping and beautification efforts. We will post dates as soon as we know, but we often don’t get notice more than the day of or day before.
For information on the Box Canyon Fire southeast of Smith Morehouse Reservoir including size, activity, and area and reservoir closures, please see InciWeb.
The DNR has confirmed that they will again chip wood piles this year ….. similar to last year. It is important that the wood piles be properly stacked as shown in the accompanying pictures. Wood chips will be left on your property. Stacked wood should be placed close to the main BSR roads, easily accessible by work crews.
Chipping dates will be posted as soon as we are notified. Significant advanced notice may not be possible. Please clean your properties now in preparation for DNR work.
We appreciate the work and cleanup efforts already evident throughout the BSR area. Your cleanup efforts earned us a Firewise USA award for 2015 and contribute to a similar recognition for 2016.
Organized & Ready for ChippingNote: Cut side facing the road
At the Association Annual meeting held Monday, May 9th, BSR was given the Firewise Community/ USA Award. Ken Ludwig, representing Summit County DNR and the National Firewise Program , presented the award and thanked BSR property owners for their efforts to make our community safer by reducing fire risks through cleanup efforts.
Thank you for your interest and hard work to make our BSR area safer and more attractive by cleaning up your properties and properly stacking deadfall for the DNR chipping program.
DNR will be back again this year to assist with chipping and beautification efforts.
The DNR has completed their wood chipping project for the year. We were able to utilize their services because of your efforts and hard work cleaning up your properties and appropriately stacking deadfall.
Remember to complete the “in-kind” form to record your time cleaning your property and turn it into any board member. Your reported “in-kind” hours provide the basis for future continued DNR assistance.
The DNR has informed us they will have a crew here after September 14th for additional chipping similar to that they performed in the spring this year. The exact dates are unknown at this point. The chipper will be smaller this time and will not take wood larger than 12″ in diameter. Wood must be stacked in the same manner as before for ease of handling.
Areas not reached in the spring will receive first attention.
If you have additional cleanup and chipping needs, use the next few weeks to get ready for the DNR chipping project.
Remember to complete the “in-kind” form to record your time cleaning your property and turn it into any board member.
More information will be posted as it is provided.
The DNR chipping program has completed for the spring. A special “thank you” to property owners who cleaned up their properties and prepared wood stacks to be chipped. DNR brought in a large work party and completed all but a very few properties before their grant money ran out and work had to stop. We appreciate their efforts and hard work. Our area looks much better due to your and their efforts.
We’ve been informed that they will be back in the fall after we have provided them with the “In-Kind” forms detailing hours each of us have worked cleaning up our properties. If you have not already done so, turn in your completed forms to a board member, or call one of us and we will pick it up from you.
Those properties missed this time will be the first to be addressed in the fall. More information will be provided once we know that more grant money has been approved and a work date scheduled.
Thank you again for your terrific support of this project and hard work to beautify our area.
Beaver Springs Ranch Association 
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