United States Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack has announced a "collaborative conservation

partnership" called "Treasured Landscapes: The Hayman Restoration Partnership - Working

Together for Healthy Forests and Clean Water" - between Vail Resorts, the National Forest

Foundation (NFF) and the USDA Forest Service, which the organization said will be one of the

most comprehensive forest health and watershed public-private partnership post-fire restoration

projects in the country. Seven years after Colorado's largest and most devastating wildfire this

collaborative work project aims to restore forest health and water quality to this critical

ecosystem located approximately 70 miles from Denver.

"The health and prosperity of our country relies on the health of our nation's forests. The threats

facing our forests require us to change the way we view and manage America's forestlands, not

just for our generation but for future generations," said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. "The

Hayman Restoration Project, spearheaded by the US Forest Service, National Forest Foundation,

and Vail Resorts exemplifies our new vision of collaborative conservation, management and

restoration of our nation's forests. Through private-public partnerships like this one, we can make

our forests more resilient to climate change, protect water resources and improve forest health

while creating jobs and generating rural wealth through recreation and tourism."