Colorado Statewide Forest Resource Assessment

Map 2 – Forest Ownership/Management in ColoradoThe remainder of Colorado’s forests is held by a combination of tribalgovernments, municipalities, state agencies and other non-federal entities.The Colorado State Land Board, for example, owns approximately 370,000acres of forest land throughout the state; the largest parcel is the ColoradoState Forest near Walden. Two resident tribes, the Ute Mountain Utes andSouthern Utes, make their home in southwest Colorado where they own atotal of 402,303 acres of forestland. The vast majority of these acres are inponderosa pine and piñon-juniper forests. These tribes also retain specifi chunting rights and other aboriginal rights on national forests throughouttheir traditional territory, which includes portions of Utah, New Mexico andColorado. More than a dozen other tribes located outside Colorado alsomaintain tribal interests and inherent aboriginal rights in Colorado’s nationalforests (USFS 2008).15