Read It Here The Incident Strategic Alignment Process (ISAP) is an emerging framework for considering risk and developing strategy during wildland fire management and all-hazard response. It is an iterative, collaborative, risk-based dialogue informed by advanced spatial and fire behavior …
Read It Here The Southwest Ecological Restoration Institutes (SWERI) developed a collaborative governance assessment as part of the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP) Common Monitoring Strategy. The collaborative governance assessment was designed to assess the following questions: 1. What …
In July 2023 the South Platte Ranger District completed 250 acres of broadcast burning as part of the Sand Springs Prescribed Fire Project. The project was intended to reduce wildfire hazard and increase forest resilience at a heavily used trailhead …
Read It Here The Southwest Ecological Restoration Institutes (SWERI) developed a collaborative governance assessment as part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service (Forest Service) Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP) Common Monitoring Strategy.1 The collaborative governance assessment was …
Read it here! Ponderosa pine is a common forest type found at elevations between 6,000-9,000 feet on the Colorado Front Range. ? Fire is a natural component of ponderosa ecosystems; however, over the past 45 years, the frequency of large …
Mulching involves the use of heavy equipment to grind, shred, chip, or chop large woody material into smaller pieces. Mulching activities such as chipping and mastication have been relied-upon tools in forest management on the Front Range of Colorado and …
Land managers in fire-adapted ecosystems must consider a variety of dynamic and interrelated ecological and societal processes. This is especially true for decisions related to wildfire management, where decision-making is complicated by the compartmentalized nature of land and fire management, …
Colorado is expected to add 1.5 million new residents by 2030, and Chaffee County outstripped the statewide pace of growth as its population increased by 5.6% from 2015-2017. As expanding populations drive increased development in the wildland-urban interface, and …
We are very proud of Stephanie Mueller on the publication of her thesis research, and her first first-author paper! Having her expertise at CFRI increases our spatial analytical capacity. Over the last several decades in forest and woodland ecosystems of …
This paper examines how heterogeneous restoration treatments impact light availability using a combined field and simulation approach that is now available online. One of the major take-aways is that altering spatial pattern of overstory trees presents several trade-offs among effects …
