Colorado State Forest Services
About Colorado State Forest Services
Colorado State Forest Services runs its Alamosa Field Office from 101 South Craft Drive in Alamosa, Colorado. It is a state forestry agency tied to Colorado State University. The office works with residents and partners across the San Luis Valley to improve forest health and prepare homes and communities for wildfire. It serves Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Mineral, Rio Grande and Saguache counties. The office is a forestry adviser, not a timber buyer. It writes and carries out forest management plans and identifies insect and disease problems. It also designs fuels reduction and wildfire mitigation projects and does mastication and timber stand improvement work. Species it works with include narrowleaf cottonwood, Douglas-fir, lodgepole pine and ponderosa pine. Its own page says it helps landowners "from city lots to 1,000s of acres" manage their trees. Landowners in Colorado with over 40 forested acres are eligible for the Forest Ag Program, which offers tax valuations similar to those for traditional agricultural land. On State Trust Land, the office issues individual and commercial firewood permits. It does not buy standing timber or logs from private owners, and it does not offer logging, hauling or sawing to landowners. Colorado State Forest Services suits a landowner who wants a forester to write a plan for their trees or assess beetle damage and wildfire risk, and who will find a logger or timber buyer somewhere else. From csfs.colostate.edu, read 10 November 2026.
Can they handle a timber sale?
Selling standing timber properly takes three things. Here's what the state register credits this firm with.
Timber AppraisalAn estimate of what your standing timber is worth in dollars, based on how much there is, its quality, and current prices. When you are selling, settling an estate, dividing property, or need a value for taxes or insurance.What does this mean? → — not listed
works out what your standing timber is worth
Timber Cruise & Volume EstimateA field measurement of your standing trees — their species, sizes, and quality — that adds up to how much wood you actually have. Before you sell, so you go in knowing roughly what is out there rather than taking a buyer's word for it.What does this mean? → — not listed
measures and grades what's actually out there
Timber Sale & Contract AdministrationRunning the sale for you: advertising the timber, taking bids, writing the contract, and overseeing the logging so the agreed terms are met. When you want someone on your side handling the whole sale rather than dealing with buyers and loggers yourself.What does this mean? → — not listed
runs the sale and handles the contract
This firm isn't credited with all three, which doesn't make it a worse forester — plenty specialise in management planning, wildlife or wetlands. It does mean that if your goal is to sell timber, you'd likely need someone else for the part that's missing.
Everything they're registered for
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Colorado State Forest Services
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