The nearest lumber yard is Montrose and Kremmling is starting to produce wood pellets for fireplaces.
This might be a way to motivate folks for a ‘healthy forest.’
Highly compressed softwood pellets are great - better to use it, than lose it.
I heat my whole house with them from Dec 1 to about Mar 1
There’s a mill on Highway 9 about 15 miles north of Silverthorne. Also one on the south edge of Meeker and one just north of Craig. I can’t say if any are currently active. The USFS made it too hard to log the White River NF that supported the Meeker operation. That, and the owner was a cranky sob that nobody liked to deal with anyway. The Craig mill I believe was once active in the Routt NF; they had a lifetime contract to supply cribs for underground mines but couldn’t maintain a reasonable tolerance and lost their sugar daddy.