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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

A new review of Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP) projects. The Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP) was an incubator for innovation and learning to improve forest management outcomes, advance applied research and multi-partner monitoring, and develop new collaborative …

Katarina is the undergraduate research coordinator at CFRI. Click on the images below, or the link to read more about her journey to CFRI, and her field experiences! If there’s one thing she wants everyone to know about forestry, it’s …

Quantifying fireline effectiveness (FLE) is essential to evaluate the efficiency of large wildfire management strategies to foster institutional learning and improvement in fire management organizations. FLE performance metrics for incident-level evaluation have been developed and applied to a small set …