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Looking to join our organization? Download the Colorado Forest Products license agreement (in .pdf form) and we'll help get your products in front of potential customers.
This effort is supported and funded by:
CONSUMER PRODUCTS

By selecting wood products from our program participants, consumers can add a distinctive Colorado look to their properties, while benefiting the health of their own forests. CFP participants produce a wide variety of wood products, such as:
WOOD CHIP PRODUCTS, are most often used for animal bedding, landscaping and mulch.
POST/POLE/FENCING MATERIAL, buck 'n rail fencing, above by Don Ewy , is an inexpensive and attractive option, but posts and poles have many other applications, such as landscaping. SAWMILL PRODUCTS can range from to dimension lumber and landscaping timbers to decorative interior sidings and floorboards.
SPECIALTY PRODUCTS include carvings, decorative items, canes and many other unique forest products. FUEL AND FIREWOOD and important small-diameter components from our forests, as are CHRISTMAS TREES. Find a local retailer.
LOG HOMES come from an assortment of different construction techniques, and affordable options are now available that primarily use Colorado timbers, especially beetle-kill lodgepole pine. BLUE-STAINED WOOD products come from beetle-killed pine trees and the staining coming from a fungus left by the beetles can create wonderful colorings in wood paneling, accents and other products.
Colorado Forest Products can also be found online at COLORADO PROUD, which features
a database searchable by company, products, county and city.

CONSUMERS LOOKING FOR LOCAL WOOD PRODUCTS should also browse our WOOD BOARDS, which are designed to help move local wood products, including firewood, into local markets. These discussion boards often feature wood from restoration efforts on private lands and present a variety of options furchase, including areas areas where firewood can often be picked up for free. Consumers can also post their own items if they are looking for specific products or service, such as routine delivery of firewood or special logs.

With hundreds of millions of dollars of forest restoration work in Front Range Red Zone areas alone, and millions more acres of lodgepole forest being decimated by the pine beetle, Colorado consumers are in a position today to positively impact the future of their forests. While Colorado forests may never produce substantial amounts of dimension lumber used for construction, making use of the wood at hand can make a considerable difference in the cost of contracting forestry and restoration efforts.
Colorado's economy annually consumes more than $4 billion in wood products, and according to a 2001 study conducted by marketing and utilization specialists from Colorado State University and the USDA Forest Service, much of that material could be provided through small-diameter products from forest restoration efforts, including:

  • $62.3 million in roundwood used for fencing, posts, poles, utility poles and log homes.
  • $32 million in wood-energy products, such as firewood, compressed fire logs and wood pellets
  • $14.2 million in mulch, chips and sawdust
  • $1.6 million in Christmas trees.