Ritter seeks $55M for projects in state’s forests

Monday, 22 February 2010 14:44

Gov. Bill Ritter is pressing the federal government for $55 million for forest-management projects in Colorado. Ritter asked for the funding when he met in Washington, D.C., with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar during that National Governors Association winter meeting last weekend. The U.S. Forest Service this year set aside $40 million to deal with the bark-beetle infestation in the Rocky Mountains.