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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

Awards banquet tables
Awards banquet tables

Three CFRI student staff members won awards at the Warner College of Natural Resources Awards Banquet on Wednesday, April 18th, 2018. Spencer Elliott won the WCNR Undergraduate Research Award for his work with CFRI. Spencer did research as part of …

Wildland firefighters walking
Wildland firefighters walking

Research Associate Mike Caggiano wrote a blog post for the Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network to share his findings on Collaborative Spatial Fire Management: Getting Ahead of Fire Using Potential Operational Delineations. “At the end of a windy summer day, an engine …

Spatial data figure from a paper
Spatial data figure from a paper

In response to large, severe wildfires in historically fire-adapted forests in the western US, policy initiatives, such as the USDA Forest Service’s Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP), seek to increase the pace and scale of ecological restoration. One required …