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Fireforest Film Screening – Fort Collins

Name: Fireforest Film Screening – Fort Collins
Start: 2024-08-20T18:00:00+00:00
End: 2024-08-20T20:00:00+00:00
Location: The Lyric Cinema

August 20, 2024 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Larimer Conservation District Presents the Fort Collins Screening of Fireforest

In August of 2020, the Cameron Peak Fire was racing uncontrollably towards communities in northern Colorado. As it reached the footprint of a past U.S. Forest Service prescribed burn and the Drala Mountain Center (formerly Shambhala Mountain Center), a near-miracle occurred. The prescribed burn, combined with forest restoration treatments at Drala, gave firefighters a foothold to halt a portion of the fire and avert disaster for the communities downslope.

This 16-minute film tells the story of what happened there through the accounts of a U.S. Forest Service fire specialist, a Larimer Conservation District forester, and the Drala land manager. Together, they urge us to see fire and forest management as natural and essential parts of the landscape. By shifting the way we perceive fire and actively preparing forests to receive it, we can create hope for living with wildfires.

The event will begin with a short introduction by Larimer Conservation District Executive Director Gretchen Reuning and Evan Barrientos. Following the 16-minute film, Gretchen and James White (U.S. Forest Service cooperative fire specialist) will give a Q&A session with the audience.

To RSVP to the Fort Collins screening visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lcd-presents-the-fort-collins-screening-of-fireforest-tickets-965358672777?aff=oddtdtcreator

This film was made possible with funding from the Mighty Arrow Family Foundation and Peaks to People Fund Water Fund; and with guidance and coordination from Larimer Conservation District, Drala Mountain Center, the U.S. Forest Service, Coalition for the Poudre River Watershed, and the Northern Colorado Fireshed Collaborative.