The US Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station and the Colorado Forest Restoration Institute at Colorado State University gathered professionals from 27 organizations on April 20, 2021 to discuss issues relating to natural forest recovery and reforestation following the 2020 …
RESEARCH & MONITORING CREW LEADER Full position description The Colorado Forest Restoration Institute at Colorado State University is hiring experienced crew leaders to assist with forestry data collection and crew management in support of our research and monitoring field studies. …
In January 2021, local managers, researchers, and stakeholders visited the City of Fort Collins Bobcat Gulch Natural Area, where the 2000 Bobcat Gulch Fire was reburned by the 2020 Cameron Peak Fire for collaborative learning. The Bobcat Gulch Natural Area—a …
We are searching for a policy-focused research associate to work on federal forest and climate policy at Colorado State University (CSU). The Research Associate III will work in close coordination with Dr. Courtney Schultz as part of the CSU Public Lands Policy Group and Climate Adaptation …
Read the report here! The Upper South Platte Watershed and the forests it contains provide highly valued ecosystem services to communities along the Colorado Front Range. The Upper South Platte Partnership (USPP) and Forests to Faucets partnership (F2F) lead cross-boundary …
In response to large, severe wildfires across the western US, federal initiatives have been enacted to increase the pace, scale, and quality of ecological restoration in fire dependent forests. To address uncertainty and controversy in agreement among specific restoration prescriptions …
Join our field crew! CFRI is currently hiring 12-20 summer forest ecology field technicians to assist with forest restoration research and monitoring projects throughout Colorado. Duties include (1) measuring forest and tree characteristics, (2) fuel characterization and sampling, (3) plant …
Check out our new infographic! This product created and distributed by CFRI and the Southern Rockies Fire Science Network provides information about historical fire behavior in different forest types, and how that fire behavior has potentially changes (or not!) in …
This Research Associate II position is specifically tasked with contributing to a program of work that advances collaborative forest restoration, integrated natural resource planning, and wildfire risk mitigation decision-making in Colorado and the Interior West with spatial data production, management, …
How can we restore ponderosa pine-dominated forests today to make them more resilient to future fires given this quandary: no one alive today remembers what these places looked like in the past, and records about these forests are limited? Read …
