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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 million+

Acres Informed by Monitoring

2,200+

Monitoring Plots

100+

Publications

40+

Student Jobs Provided

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CFRI Happenings

Please join CFRI for the 2019 Prescribed Fire Download on Thursday February 28, 2019 from 4- 6 PM at Tap and Handle (307 S. College Avenue, Fort Collins, CO).  Food and drinks are available for purchase at Tap and Handle. …

Students collecting data on a forest floor
Students collecting data on a forest floor

Student field crew members work full time over summer, with the potential to work part time during the school year in the lab. The student lab/field crew members support our restoration ecology research projects in many ways, including collecting data …

Mere days into her freshman year, Ryleigh Gelles applied for a job with the Colorado Forest Restoration Institute at Colorado State University. After multiple seasons as a student employee, this natural resources management senior is now blazing her own research …