Colorado Smoke Management Program

What do you do with a mess like this?  This burn boss orchestrated a lot of help.  Chips and duff were hauled for composting.  Some piles were rebuilt with the help of a fire crew, bobcat, and backhoe.  For others “we fiber taped McLeods onto long poles and pulled the smoldering chips and duff piles out into flat sheets about 6 to 10 inches thick rather than waist high mounds… In the end it all worked out but it took a lot of effort.”

Frequent requests:

• Do I need a permit?  How do I get one?

• Forms to download

• Standard permit conditions, piles or broadcast

• Fuel photo series links

• Open burning & county contacts

• Air quality advisories & O₃ forecast

• Index of all documents and pages on APCD's smoke website

  Outline of all topics:    Look left.

Latest updates:

• The smoke-sensitive areas map has been updated to reflect the 2010 census.  The map is available as both a .jpg and as a zipped GIS layer.  (1/12)

• Draft annual reports now include all activity reported in 2011.  Please review and return yours as soon as you are ready and no later than March 1.  (1/12)

• Cutover of all Health Department website addresses to new urls has been postponed until summer.  (1/12)