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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

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 …

CFRI’s student employee, Ryleigh Gelles, has recently won two awards for her research on the impacts of forest restoration treatments (particularly prescribed fire) on pollinator communities along the Colorado Front Range. Ryleigh won 1st place for her poster presentation for …

Emma Williams
Emma Williams

Emma Williams, our Research and Monitoring Coordinator, has accepted an exciting new position as a NEPA planner with the US Forest Service on the Coronado National Forest.  Emma brought so many incredible things to CFRI: an extraordinary work ethic;  a …