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Canyon Lakes Ranger District Plans for 2022 Winter Pile Burning
FORT COLLINS, Colo. – Firefighters from the Canyon Lakes Ranger District of the Roosevelt National Forest plan to take advantage of winter snow conditions over the coming months to burn slash piles created from multiple fuels reduction and hazardous tree removal projects. Burning could begin as early as January 3 and continue through the winter if enough snow falls in the mountains. Typically, crews are permitted to burn as many as 250 to 1,000 smaller hand…
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Winter Pile Burning Operations Announced For Both Sides Of Rocky Mountain National Park
News Release Date: October 26, 2021 Contact: Kyle Patterson Contact: Park Information Office, (970) 586-1206 Fire managers from Rocky Mountain National Park plan to take advantage of any upcoming wet or winter weather conditions to burn piles of slash generated from several fuels reduction projects and hazard tree…
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Weather & the Prescribed Burn Plan
Photo caption: A wildland fire fighter uses a drip torch to ignite the Magic Feather Prescribed Burn near Red Feather Lakes in June 2021. (Photo credit: Evan Barrientos) Colorado's overgrown forests are malnourished - starving for the cyclical, low-intensity fire that sustained them for thousands…
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The Mechanics Behind Prescribed Burning
by Marjie Brown/Coalition for the Poudre River Watershed Radios crackle with communications. Men and women in fire-resistant yellow shirts and green trousers dot the land, eyes on each other and the treetops, watching for a breeze. Gloved hands tip red tank torches downward, dripping liquid…
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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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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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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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StoryMap: Prescribed Fire in Northern Colorado
This StoryMap from the Colorado Forest Restoration Institute (CFRI) provides an interactive and informative overview of prescribed fire in Northern Colorado. To view the StoryMap in full screen visit: https://arcg.is/1HeKCb0
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Fireshed Spring Webinar Series
Join us for an informative and interactive webinar series introducing the Northern Colorado Fireshed Collaborative (NCFC) and our work to make Northern Colorado forests resilient, protect communities and keep our water supplies reliable. This webinar series is free and open to anyone interested in the…
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