Our Latest News

Featured Image for Fireforest Film Screening – Fort Collins

Fireforest Film Screening – Fort Collins

August 13, 2024

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…

Read More
Featured Image for Featured Project: Swanson Ranch Forest Restoration

Featured Project: Swanson Ranch Forest Restoration

July 21, 2022

NoCo Fireshed partners from the Coalition for the Poudre River Watershed (CPRW) and the Larimer Conservation District have joined forces to complete a 200 acre forest restoration project located in Red Feather Lakes, CO. The treatment unit is near South Lone Pine Creek, an important…

Read More
Featured Image for Fireshed Partner Spotlight: Larimer Conservation District

Fireshed Partner Spotlight: Larimer Conservation District

March 23, 2022

The Larimer Conservation District (LCD) (formerly the Fort Collins and Big Thompson Conservation Districts) is a proud partner of the Northern Colorado Fireshed Collaborative and has been an active proponent of natural resource conservation since the original districts were founded in the 1940s.  Conservation Districts…

Read More