San Miguel Basin habitat rehabilitation

Six miles southwest of Norwood in the San Miguel Basin, the Elk Foundation teamed up in a multi-partner project to rehabilitate private lands affected by the lightning-caused Burn Canyon fire, which burned 31,300 acres of federal, state and private lands. The project seeded 4,490 acres of private lands not covered by federal rehabilitation funds along with 1,200 acres of state lands to ensure rapid recovery of native vegetation, reduce noxious weed invasions and protect water quality on elk and deer winter range.

(Jan/Feb 2004) Tracking the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Bugle 21 (1) 22.