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Tamarisk
Planned burn near Rifle
GARFIELD COUNTY, CO – As part of Garfield County’s ongoing tamarisk and Russian olive removal project, a prescribed burn is planned Thursday, March 7, and possibly, Friday, March 8, near the entrance to Rifle. The burns will occur, weather conditions permitting, on the two-acre island in the Colorado River located just east of the Highway 13 Bridge. Smoke may be visible to residents in the Rifle area and travelers along Interstate 70. The State Wildland Inmate Firefighting Team (SWIFT) crew from the Rifle Correctional Facility will conduct the burn, and it will be coordinated by Colorado Department of Corrections (DOC)
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Prescribed burn, Russian olive, Tamarisk
Volunteers removed tamarisk
Jason Pooler, of Rifle Colorado, crew leader with Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers, works on stacking cut Russian olive during the Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteer's Tamarisk / Russian Olive volunteer work day at the Rifle Rest Area.
More than 45 volunteers showed up Saturday, October 15 to remove Tamarisk and Russian Olive trees in Rifle. Volunteers cut Tamarisk and Russian Olive trees to the stumps, and then stacked the slash into piles that were later shredded into chips and sent to the landfill. Applicators followed with a herbicide treatment to the cut stumps designed to stop the weed’s regrowth. Garfield County Vegetation Manager Steve Anthony says he was very happy with the turnout, “Next time you are in the rest area take a look at the areas south of the Colorado River and you will notice that
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Noxious weeds, Tamarisk
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