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Science

Our home at Colorado State University gives us access to abundant resources and cutting-edge knowledge which we apply to our work in forest collaboration, forest science, and forest health and resilience.

Collaboration

Our role is to provide engagement, knowledge, and science support to our collaborative partners which helps guide collaborative decision-making informed by best available science. 

Actionable Knowledge

Using forest science and collaboration, CFRI offers actionable knowledge to groups we work with in the form of locally relevant, locally appropriate, science-informed solutions. 
relationship between Science, Collaboration, and Actionable Knowledge

Impacts

1.3 million+

Acres Informed by Monitoring

3900+

Monitoring Plots

125+

Publications

40+

Student Jobs Provided

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CFRI Happenings

In January 2021, local managers, researchers, and stakeholders visited the City of Fort Collins Bobcat Gulch Natural Area, where the 2000 Bobcat Gulch Fire was reburned by the 2020 Cameron Peak Fire for collaborative learning. The Bobcat Gulch Natural Area—a …

Read the report here! The Upper South Platte Watershed and the forests it contains provide highly valued ecosystem services to communities along the Colorado Front Range. The Upper South Platte Partnership (USPP) and Forests to Faucets partnership (F2F) lead cross-boundary …

Check out our new infographic! This product created and distributed by CFRI and the Southern Rockies Fire Science Network provides information about historical fire behavior in different forest types, and how that fire behavior has potentially changes (or not!) in …

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