Collection guides for foresters, botanists, restoration ecologists, and land managers When large-scale disturbances like fire, insects, or drought overwhelm a forest’s ability to recovery on its own, managers and landowners may decide to reforest critical areas. Such efforts require climatically …
The ReSHAPE Project On November 15, 2021, President Biden signed the “Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act” (IIJA), commonly referred to as the “Bipartisan Infrastructure Law” (BIL). In addition to addressing issues with the nation’s transportation and utilities systems, the bill …
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 …
A collection of StoryMaps discussing PODs: a strategic collaborative spatial wildfire planning framework and decision support tool for wildfire response and mitigation. Introduction PODs Primer: What are PODs and how are they developed? Using PODs in Wildfire Response: Examples Across …
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Fire is an important part of our ecosystems, and the way fires burn is complex. Explore post-fire forests in this StoryMap.
The Colorado Forest Restoration Institute (CFRI) at Colorado State University is seeking applications for two different positions: Research and Monitoring Crew Leader and Senior Research and Monitoring Field Technician Research and Monitoring Crew Leader Fully position description CFRI is hiring …
The Public Lands Policy Group (PLPG) and the Colorado Forest Restoration Institute (CFRI) at Colorado State University are pleased to share a new piece of work. This research project focused on how actors are adopting and adapting the Potential Operational …
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 …
