"Freshly cut Christmas trees to help with fire mitigation" - Wet Mountain Tribune, November 24th 2022. Article can be found here.
"Building a Community Forest Economy one tree at a time" - Wet Mountain Tribune, April 8th 2021. Article can be found here.
WOOD PICKERS PARADISE: Greenleaf has a lumber yard, workshop, and showroom in the Black Forest, north of Colorado Springs. This is the place for creative woodcrafters to source unique wood for their projects. For builders and remodelers, we have decorative beams, paneling, flooring, etc. Click here to read more on our Black Forest location.
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES: Greenleaf is hiring a variety of positions for our sawmill, forestry operations, and sales/business management divisions. More information can be found on our employment page or by contacting Len Lankford at len.at.greenleaf@gmail.com.
COMMUNITY WILDFIRE PLAN: The Custer County Community Wildfire Protection Plan was developed with our owner, Len Lankford. The 60 page document is full of photos and ideas for the county. It can potentially serve as the foundation document for a new project, The Forest Stewardship Master Plan for the Sangres Click here to read the summary.
A stand replacing wind event happened on Novemeber 13, 2011 in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.Thousands of acres were affected with sometimes 50-100 trees per acre down. See article on "The Night the Trees Died"
Windstorm Hits Sangres November 13 2011 Hundreds of acres have windthrown trees for more news click here
