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Partner Spotlight: Left Hand Watershed Center
The mission of the Left Hand Watershed Center (Watershed Center) is to protect and restore watersheds for people and the environment using a collaborative and science-based approach. Established in 2005, the Watershed Center has strong roots in their community and is led by a diverse board of enthusiastic stakeholders. They value science and community, and embrace these values to implement on-the-ground projects. While they maintain their roots in Left Hand Creek Watershed, they also strive to apply locally-developed tools regionally…
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Partner Spotlight: Boulder Watershed Collective
The Boulder Watershed Collective (BWC) is a stakeholder-driven organization established to address watershed health, resiliency, and stewardship. BWC's mission is to protect and restore the health and function of the Boulder Creek Watershed, and support watershed-related collaboration statewide. As the urban areas grow and meet…
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Why Can’t We Just Cut It? Why Prescribed Fire is Here to Stay
Throughout the year, chainsaws, mowers, mulchers, and machinery work to thin out overgrown forests and shrublands that we’ve “protected” from fire for over a century. Ideally, because we live in a fire-dependent ecosystem, this mechanized work is followed by a healing dose of these forests’…
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Boulder County Fireshed established to create more climate and wildfire resilient forests
Since signing an agreement last summer to align their efforts, a coalition of federal, state, county and municipal agencies, has been working with non-profit entities in Boulder County to meet with communities and prioritize areas for forest treatments especially where those areas include multiple ownerships such…
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Magic Feather Prescribed Burn Could Begin as Soon as Monday
FORT COLLINS, Colo. – Firefighters on the Canyon Lakes Ranger District of the Roosevelt National Forest are monitoring local conditions to begin prescribed fire operations as soon as June 21, 2021, on the Magic Feather Prescribed Burn to improve forest health. The wildfires of 2020 are…
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Video: Prescribed Fire Treatment Effects on Cameron Peak Fire
After the Cameron Peak Fire, the incident management team created this video to describe how fuels treatments around the communities of Red Feather and Crystal Lakes helped firefighters to confront the Cameron Peak Fire. A great example of how the Fireshed is working to collectively…
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Fireshed Partner Spotlight: Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland
The Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland (ARP) is 1.5 million acres of National Forest System lands located in northcentral Colorado and one of the most visited national forests in the country, increasing the risk of human-caused wildfires. In recent years, staff…
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Dr. Tony Cheng Testifies at Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry
Dr. Tony Cheng, Director of the Colorado Forest Restoration Institute, provided witness testimony for the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry on Thursday, May 20, 2021. The agenda and video feed for the hearing, titled “Federal, State, and Private Forestlands: Opportunities for Addressing Climate…
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Fireshed Partner Spotlight: Big Thompson Watershed Coalition
The southern sister to Coalition for the Poudre River Watershed, Big Thompson Watershed Coalition (BTWC) found its roots in flood recovery initiatives after the 2013 state-declared flood emergency, which devastated the Big Thompson Canyon and much of the front range. Since its formation, BTWC has…
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Magic Feather Prescribed Burn Could Take Place This Spring 2021
FORT COLLINS, Colo. – Firefighters on the Canyon Lakes Ranger District of the Roosevelt National Forest are monitoring conditions to begin prescribed fire operations on the Magic Feather Prescribed Burn this spring to improve forest health. The wildfires of 2020 are a somber reminder of the…
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