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 …
CFRI 2020 Fire Statement In the space of 90 days, Colorado has experienced the three largest fires in its recorded history. The Pine Gulch Fire surpassed the 2002 Hayman Fire as the state’s largest on August 27th. After 43 days, …
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!
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 …
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 …
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 …
