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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

Potential Operational Delineations (PODs) are a strategic planning tool developed using a combination of local expertise and advanced spatial analysis. They identify the safest and most effective control lines used to contain a wildfire and can assist in integrating land …

Jeffrey Cannon
Jeffrey Cannon

Jeff’s time with CFRI has come to a close. He has been the assistant director of research and monitoring at CFRI. He has accepted a new position at the Jones Ecological Research Center at Ichauway, and is celebrating his last …

Kevin Barrett
Kevin Barrett

Kevin is our Forest Inventory Program Specialist here at CFRI. Click the link to read more about his work, hobbies, and scariest field stories! If there’s one thing he wants everyone to know about forest science, it’s this: cutting down …