Our annual spring cleanup day is scheduled for Saturday, June 4. At 9am — Please meet at the corral for work review and assignments.
As mentioned at our annual meeting, the DNR will again assist us with cleanup efforts and reduction of fire hazards by chipping wood piles that have been prepared through our cleanup work. DNR chipping dates will be posted once they are known.
As a reminder……DNR will only work on piles that have been properly stacked. Stacks must be near the road or your driveway. Do not extend stacks into the bar ditches or BSR roads as spring road maintenance will be completed prior to the DNR work. Wood must be stacked in parallel formation and logs can be up to 2 feet in diameter. Do not cut logs into short pieces. Longer logs allow for more efficient work and cleanup. Stacking similar diameter pieces together will also help the crew be more efficient. Chippings will be left on your lot.
The pictures above show how the wood needs to be stacked…..larger diameter end facing the road for easy access and handling. If not properly stacked, the DNR crews may bypass your property. Several property owners have already stacked wood close to the roads. Now is a good time to begin if you have not already started cleaning your property and stacking wood in preparation for the chipping project.
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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