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Prescribed Burning Planned for Lory State Park
Public Notice November 29, 2023 Media Contacts: CPW Contact: Kara Van Hoose, Kara.VanHoose@state.co.us DFPC Contact: Tracy LeClair Tracy.LeClair@state.co.us Larimer County CO – The Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW), in cooperation with the Division of Fire Prevention and Control (DFPC), will be conducting prescribed burning operations in Lory State Park near Fort Collins, Colorado this Fall, Winter, and Spring. Burning operations will occur as weather conditions permit, and could begin this month with slash piles. Burning…
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Recording: Black Diamond Landscape Resiliency and Risk Reduction Project Community Meeting – Nov. 9, 2023
https://youtu.be/Y7PImb8Yz38 In this virtual meeting US Forest Service staff from the Canyon Lakes Ranger District and local partners provide an update on the Black Diamond Landscape Resiliency and Risk Reduction Project. The Canyon Lakes Ranger District will utilize this project’s decision to implement a series…
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Webinar Recording: PODs Revision & Expansion Virtual Workshop (Nov. 6, 2023)
This workshop was hosted virtually on Nov. 6, 2023. Target Audience: Fire managers, interagency partners, line officers/Agency Administrators, and any NCFC partners interested in learning more about PODs and how they are developed. Potential Operational Delineations, or PODs, are a spatial planning framework in which…
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US Forest Service, National Park Service, Estes Valley Watershed Coalition to host informational meeting on pile burning
ESTES PARK -- As the first snows of winter arrive, foresters and fire managers are making plans for the pile burning season. Pile burning is an important tool used by public and private land managers to thin overgrown forests and reduce the potential damaging effects of…
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Hall Ranch Closed for Planned Prescribed Burn on Wednesday, Oct. 25.
Hall Ranch will be closed all day if conditions are favorable for another prescribed burn. Boulder County, Colo. - Boulder County Parks & Open Space and the Sheriff’s Office Fire Management Program will conduct another prescribed burn on Wednesday, Oct. 25, conditions permitting. Hall Ranch will be…
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Hall Ranch Closed for Planned Prescribed Burn on Wednesday, Oct. 11.
Prescribed burn is now scheduled for Wednesday, Oct. 11, if conditions are favorable. Boulder County, Colo. - Boulder County Parks & Open Space and the Sheriff’s Office Fire Management Program will conduct a prescribed burn on Wednesday, Oct. 11, conditions permitting. Hall Ranch will be closed for…
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Magic Feather Prescribed Burn could resume Saturday
FORT COLLINS, Colo. (Oct. 5, 2023) – Firefighters on the Roosevelt National Forest’s Canyon Lakes Ranger District are closely monitoring local conditions to resume prescribed fire operations on the Magic Feather Prescribed Burn near Red Feather Lakes as soon as October 7, 2023. The burn is located…
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Blue Ridge Prescribed Burn could resume next week
Granby, Colo. (Oct. 2, 2023) – Arapaho National Forest fire managers and their partners are monitoring conditions for an opportunity in the coming weeks to continue the Blue Ridge prescribed fire project, located near Cottonwood Pass. Implementing prescribed fire is a critical part of reducing the risk of…
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Forged in the NoCo Fireshed: Stages of Collaborative Readiness Framework
by Ch'aska Huayhuaca, PhD, Program Manager, Collaborative Decision Support, Colorado Forest Restoration Institute (Southwest Ecological Restoration Institutes) In the Northern Colorado Fireshed Collaborative (NoCo Fireshed), we know that a future without wildland fire is neither feasible nor desirable. Thought leaders among our partners encourage us to imagine…
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Prescribed Burn Window for Hall Ranch Begins Tuesday, Aug. 1
Hall Ranch will only be closed during active ignition days. Boulder County, Colo. - Boulder County Parks & Open Space and the Sheriff’s Office Fire Management Program have announced burn-window dates to conduct prescribed burn operations this summer and fall, weather permitting. Prescribed fires reduce woody debris…
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