Partners for Healthy Forests
There are 58 primary manufacturers processing logs in 25 counties in Colorado, producing lumber, log homes and house logs, timbers, posts and poles, aspen paneling, aspen excelsior, log furniture, erosion control products, biomass, firewood, and wood pellets. Colorado also has a wood fired biomass power plant.
The number of sawmills in Colorado has declined from 84 in 1982 to 31 in 2012. However, the total lumber production increased from 83 million board feet in 1982 to 95 million board feet in 2012. 
There were about 6,700 jobs in Colorado’s forest industry in 2012. About 2,050 of those jobs were in the “primary” industry – harvesting and processing timber or in private sector land management; the remaining 4,650 jobs were in the “secondary” industry.
In 2012, Colorado had about 10.75 million acres of non-reserved timberland, with the national forests accounting for 70 percent of those acres.