Connected Science with RMRS
CFRI and the Rocky Mountain Research Station have worked together to develop and implement the Potential Operational Delineations (PODs) framework for wildfire planning. Read all about it here!
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Find out more about CFRI’s Potential Operational Delineations (PODs) Atlas product, and discover how you can operationalize PODs on your forest. The POD Atlas is a wildfire decision support tool that compliments and adds value to efforts to delineate PODs …
New Publication! A Geospatial Framework to Assess Fireline Effectiveness for Large Wildfires in the Western USA
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 …
New Publication! Developing and sustaining collaborative resilience in the face of change
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 …
Staff Profile: Katarina Warnick
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 …
New Publication! Mulching: A knowledge summary and guidelines for best practices on Colorado’s Front Range
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 …
New Publication: Potential Operational Delineations and Northern New Mexico’s 2019 Fire Season
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, …
New Publications: Chaffee County Wildfire Risk Assessment and Fuel Treatment Prioritization
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 …
New Publication: Climate Relationships with Increasing Wildfire
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 …
We are hiring students for our 2020 summer field crew!
The Colorado Forest Restoration Institute is hiring 8-12 CSU students to work with us on our field monitoring crew this summer! Start/end dates are May/August (flexible). Pay is $13-$15/hour plus per diem. Duties include (1) measuring forest and tree characteristics, …