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Colorado Forest Resilience Planning Guide Adopted and Endorsed by the CO Forest Health Council
Forests across Colorado provide invaluable social, economic, and ecological benefits, and ensuring their resilience requires coordinated efforts. The Colorado Forest Resilience Planning Guide offers a framework for agencies, private landowners, and local collaboratives to align their forest management strategies, leverage resources effectively, and sustain forest health. And as of February 2025, the Planning Guide, is now adopted and endorsed by the Colorado Forest Health Council as recommendations to the Colorado Governor and State Legislature. Informed by applied…
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Good Disturbance: The Key To Thriving Forests
This article is as printed in the Estes Valley News on Feb. 12, 2025 By: The Estes Valley Watershed Coalition This is the first article in a four-part series on the fascinating dynamics of forests and fires in the Estes Valley. One of the most…
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Prescribed burns scheduled for this winter on Boulder County open space lands
Boulder County, Colo. - Boulder County Parks & Open Space and the Sheriff’s Office Fire Management Program plan to conduct burns as conditions allow this winter. The window for operations will be open until April 15. Burn projects depend on ideal weather conditions, including relative humidity,…
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Pile Burning Plans for the Northern Front Range on the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests
FORT COLLINS, Colo. (Nov. 12, 2024) – Fire managers on the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests are preparing for pile burning season on National Forest lands on Colorado's northern Front Range. Current and forecasted weather conditions in the area may create favorable pile burning conditions over…
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Pile Burning Planned for Sulphur Ranger District
GRANBY, Colo. (Nov. 1, 2024) – Fire managers on the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests are preparing for pile burning season for Sulphur Ranger District. Current and forecasted weather conditions in Grand County may create favorable pile burning conditions over the next several months. These weather conditions…
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Rocky Mountain National Park Announces Plans for Prescribed Burn this Friday and Saturday If Conditions Allow
News Release Date: October 30, 2024 Contact: Park Information Office, 970-586-1206Based upon the potential for favorable weather and fuels conditions, fire managers at Rocky Mountain National Park are planning to conduct a prescribed burn beginning on Friday, November 1, 2024. Firefighters plan to burn approximately 100 acres…
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New “United by Fire” podcast explores the catastrophic 2020 wildfire season
The Institute of Science & Policy just released the new season of its award-winning podcast, Laws of Notion. United by Fire is a ten-part series about living with wildfire in a warming world. Through in-depth interviews and storytelling, “United by Fire” explores the catastrophic 2020…
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A framework to simplify and understand condition-based management
by Jarod Dunn, Research Associate, Colorado Forest Restoration Institute Imagine this: after years of careful planning and environmental analysis, the US Forest Service management team is ready to take action but a new disturbance is on the horizon. They've listened to and incorporated public feedback…
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Fireforest Film Screening Around the NoCo Fireshed in August
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…
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Front Range Fires Info & Resources
Current Front Range Fires: Alexander Mountain Fire (Larimer County) At 6 a.m., August 1, 2024, Southwest Area Incident Management Team 1 took command of the fire. Larimer County Sheriff’s Office will continue to operate the Joint Information Center and provide information about evacuation notices, animal evacuations…
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