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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+

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Listen on Spotify, Anchor, and Google Podcast Welcome to our Colorado Forest Restoration Institute (CFRI) Demystifying Data podcast where we break down the lingo, pull back the curtain, and share the CFRI secret sauce on developing science informed, locally relevant …

This report documents how Potential Operational Delineations (PODs) and USDA Forest Service Risk Management Assistance products were used on the 2020 Cameron Peak Fire on the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and surrounding lands in Colorado. The report utilizes a …

CFRI crew members cross a river to get to a plot
CFRI crew members cross a river to get to a plot

CFRI is currently hiring summer field technicians for our 2022 field season. We are looking for motivated undergraduate or graduate CSU students to work with us on our field crew as full-time, seasonal summer technicians. We have two open postings on CSU Handshake: Forest and Fire Ecology Field Technician (hiring 12-20 students) and Subalpine Forest Monitoring …

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