Webinar: Colorado Wildfire Legislative Updates
Curious about Colorado’s state and federal wildfire bills in the legislative process? In this one-hour overview hosted by Fire Adapted Colorado: John Whitney, West Slope Regional Director for Senator Bennet, shared about the ORPA forestry bill in the works and the recently passed Bipartisan Infrastructure Law that Senator Bennett has been working on. Carolyn Aspelin, Colorado State Forest Service’s Legislative Affairs Specialist and Angela Boag, CO Dept. of Natural Resources, Assistant Director of Climate, Forest Health and Energy provided an overview of many of the proposed wildfire bills introduced so far this legislative session in the state capitol. Rachael Hamby, Western Resource Advocates Senior Policy Analyst, shared about the process and progress on a prescribed fire bill that will now likely be introduced in the 2023 CO legislative session and she provided access to a Colorado Wildfire bills legislative tracker: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GaSMM9r6abyt9SVZyNiawffpAc0SOYZKRup2hYP0tK8/edit?usp=sharingÂ