Small-diameter wood products from Colorado Forests.. Firewood, post/pole and wood chip producers listed here. Online membershop forms for producers here.

Colorado Forest Products' parent organization, the Colorado Utilization and Marketing Program (CO WOOD), provides several areas of assistance to wood product producers, such as assistance with business planing and workshops on bidding for federal forestry contracts. Producers who use 50 percent of Colorado wood for any product can be listed on the CFP and Colorado Proud websites for free by simply mailing in a signed copy of our LICENSE AGREEMENT (online here in .pdf format.) Please feel free to contact the following Colorado Wood staff members if they can be of assistance to your forest-related business.
BOB STURTEVANT Bob Sturtevant serves as the Forestry Extension Specialist for Colorado State University's College of Natural Resources. Bob has 27 years experience with the Colorado State Forest Service working in private and state land management and now provides education/outreach services for CO Wood as well as serving as a liaison to the Front Range Fuels Treatment Partnership. For eight years Bob was the manager of the Colorado State Forest near Walden, and he spent one year as an exchange forester in Australia where he was involved in production forestry. Prior to becoming the Extension Forester he held the position of Conservation Education Division Supervisor for the State Forest Service. Bob earned a BS and MS from the CSU - College of Natural Resources. TIM READER Tim is a forester with the Colorado State Forest Service. As a staff member of Colorado Wood, Tim provides technical assistance to the states forest products industries concerning wood Utilization and marketing issues and opportunities. Prior to joining Colorado Wood, Tim spent time as a forester with the White Mountain Apache Indian Tribe in White River, Arizona, and as a quality control technician for a plywood and particleboard resin manufacturer in southern Oregon. Tim holds a MS degree in Forest Management from Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, and a BS in Wood Science from Colorado State University in Fort Collins.	JOSEPH A. DUDA Joe is Co-Manager of CO Wood and has 28 years professional forestry experience. This includes 25 years in the forest products industry and 3 ½ years with the Colorado State Forest Service. He currently is Forest Management Division Supervisor with the Colorado State Forest Service. Joe's past experience includes serving as resource manager for a forest products company sawmill. He has extensive knowledge of laws and policies related to forest management, wood products marketing and utilization as well as wood harvesting and transportation costs. Joe also serves on the Bureau of Land Management Front Range Resource Advisory Council. He has a BS in Forestry from Michigan Technological University. DAWN GARDNER Dawn is currently working with CO Wood providing assistance to forest-related businesses, especially in the areas of business plans and entrepreneurial workshops. She has worked with the City of Portland, the Portland Business Alliance and the Portland Development Commission to develop a Small Business Prosperity Strategies and coordinated the first Revolving Loan Fund for forest related businesses in the Four Corners region. She has served as Director of the Colorado Rural Development Program (CRTP), working to increase economic activity in rural areas through the telecommunications environment, and as a small office/home office specialist at the Center for the New West. At CO Wood, Dawn continues to provide entrepreneurial training workshops, curriculum development and research for USDA employees, forest-related businesses, the artistic community, and various workshops for the home-based business community. Dawn can be reached at 303-319-2726.