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This page contains a variety of products, including peer-reviewed publications, white papers, posters, fact sheets, and infographics. These products are developed through different processes, and undergo different levels of peer-review. Peer-reviewed publications are presented here with the journal name in italics. Products produced by CFRI are indicated by a CFRI publication number (e.g. CFRI-2101).

2021

Barrettetal2021

Barrett, KJ, Cannon, JB, Schuetter, AM, Cheng, AS (2021). Effects of collaborative monitoring and adaptive management on restoration outcomes in dry conifer forests. Forest Ecology and Management 488. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119018

PSICC Final Report

Beeton, TA, Mueller, Stephanie (2021). Developing tools and processes to facilitate applying monitoring data to inform Forest Plan Monitoring and Evaluation: A report to the Pike and San Isabel National Forests Cimarron and Comanche National Grasslands. CFRI-2101.

Outreach For A Forest Restoration Framework

Brown, HLC, Clark, N, Mattor, K (2021). Outreach for a Forest Restoration Framework: Summary of efforts, successes, and lessons learned during publication and communication of the GTR-373 restoration framework. CFRI-2109.

CameronPeakFirePODsReport

Caggiano, MD, Beeton, TA, Gannon, BM, White, J (2021). The Cameron Peak Fire: Use of Potential Operational Delineations and Risk Management Assistance Products. CFRI-2106.

Cannon Warnick

Cannon, JB, Warnick, KJ, Elliott, S, Briggs, JS (2021). Low- and moderate-severity fire offers key insights for landscape restoration in ponderosa pine forests. Ecological Applications. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2490 (copies available upon request, contact katarina@rams.colostate.edu).

BobcatGulchFieldTrip

Chambers, ME, Brown, H (2021). Fort Collins Natural Area Field Trip: Bobcat Gulch Natural Area. CFRI-2104.

Post Fire Tree Regeneration And Forest Recovery Workshop Summary

Chambers, ME, Rhoades, CC, Brown, H (2021). Post-fire Tree Regeneration and Forest Recovery Workshop Summary. CFRI-2105.

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Chisholm P, Stevens-Rumann CS, Davis TS (2021) Bark beetle induced tree mortality mediated by precipitation and stand density in the Black Hills, USA. Forests. 12 (3): 360.

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Davis, EJ, Huberman-Stearns, H, Cheng, AS, Jacobson, M (2021). Transcending Parallel Play: Boundary Spanning for Collective Action in Wildfire Management. Fire, 4, 41. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire4030041.

Gannon POD Tools Poster

Gannon, BM, Thompson, MP, Caggiano, MD, O’Connor, CD, Brough, A, Gilbertson-Day, JW, Scott, JH (2021).Geospatial analysis and mapping tools to operationalize spatial fire planning. 16th International Wildland Fire Safety Summit & 6th Human Dimensions of Wildland Fire Conference, May 2021, Virtual Conference.

Post-fire Tree Regeneration and Forest Recovery Workshop Summary2

Jacobson, M, Smith, H, Huber-Stearns, HR, Davis, EJ, Cheng, AS, Deak, A. (2021). Comparing social constructions of wildfire risk across media, government, and participatory discourse in a Colorado fireshed, Journal of Risk Research, DOI: 10.1080/13669877.2021.1962954 (copies available upon request).

Jones Et Al F2F ROI Final

Jones, K, Chamberlain, L, Gannon, B, and Wolk, B (2021). A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Denver’s Forests to Faucets Program, 2011-2019. CFRI-2102.

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Jones, K, Gannon, B, Timberlake, T, Chamberlain, JL, and Wolk, B (2021). Societal benefits from wildfire mitigation activities through payments for watershed services: Insights from Colorado. Forest Policy and Economics. Volume 135, February 2022, 102661. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2021.102661

2021 Elkhorn 4 RX Monitoring Report

Morici, KE, Gannon, BM (2021). Elkhorn 4 Prescribed Fire Monitoring Report. CFRI-2108.

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Remke, MJ, Chambers, ME, Tuten, MC, Pelz, KA (2021). Mixed Conifer Forests in the San Juan Mountain Region of Colorado, USA: The Status of Our Knowledge and Management Implications. Colorado Forest Restoration Institute. CFRI-2110

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Schapira Z, Stevens-Rumann C, Shorrock D, Hoffman C, Chambers A (2021). Beetlemania: is the bark worse than the bite? Effects of bark beetles and wildfires in Rocky Mountain subalpine forests. Forest Ecology and Management 482.

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Schapira ZH, Stevens-Rumann C, Shorrock D (2021) Subalpine tree seedlings: Assessing aging methodology and drivers of establishment. Forest Ecology and Management 497.

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Shelley D. Crausbay, Helen R. Sofaer, Amanda E. Cravens, Brian C. Chaffin, Katherine R. Clifford, John E. Gross, Corrine N. Knapp, David J. Lawrence, Dawn R. Magness, Abraham J. Miller-Rushing, Gregor W. Schuurman, Stevens-Rumann CS (2021) A Science Agenda to Support Natural Resource Management Decisions in an Era of Ecological Transformation. Bioscience. 

Slacketal2021

Slack, AW, Kane, JM, Knapp, EE (2021). Growth and defense inform large sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana) mortality in a fire‐excluded forest of the central Sierra Nevada. Trees. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00468-021-02098-8.

Upper South Platte Monitoring Report 2021

Slack, AW, Wolk, BH, Stevens-Rumann, CS, Brown, HLC, Barrett, KJ, Mueller, SE, Hunter, TM, Morici, KE, & Warnick, KJ (2021). Upper South Platte Watershed Monitoring Report: Learning from forest restoration projects to advance landscape resilience and collaboration. CFRI 2103.

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Stevens, JT, Haffey, CM, Coop, JD, Fornwalt, PJ, Yocom, L, Allen, CD, Bradley, A, Burney, OT, Carril, D, Chambers, ME, Chapman, TB, Haire, SL, Hurteau, MD, Iniguez, JM, Margolis, EQ, Marks, C, Marshall, LAE, Rodman, KC, Stevens-Rumann, CS, Thode, AE, & Walker, JJ (2021). Tamm Review: Postfire landscape management in frequent-fire conifer forests of the southwestern United States. Forest Ecology and Management, 50.

Thompson, Gannon, Caggiano Forest Roads And Operational Wildfire Response Planning

Thompson, MP, Gannon, BM, Caggiano, MD (2021). Forest Roads and Operational Wildfire Response Planning. Forests 12, 110. https://doi.org/10.3390/f12020110.

Uncompahgre Plateau CFRLP Sage Oak 1 Year Post Treatment Study Summary Report

Weimer, K, Chambers, M, Ex, S, Hill, E, Brazenwood, A, Freels, E (2021). Uncompahgre Plateau CFLRP Sage-Oak 1 year Post Treatment Study Summary Report. CFRI-2107

2020

CFLRP Developing And Sustaining Collaborative Resilience

Beeton, TA, Cheng, AS, & Colavito, MM (2020). Developing and sustaining collaborative resilience in the face of change: A review of the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program projects. CFRI-2003.

FireEd Infographic

Brown, H, Chambers, ME, Stevens-Rumann, CS, Edwards, G (2020). Fire behaves differently in different forest types. CFRI-2007.

Cannon2020 Article SimulatingSpatialComplexityInD (1)

Cannon, JB, Gannon, BM, Feinstein, JA, Padley, EA, Metz, LJ (2020). Simulating spatial complexity in dry conifer forest restoration: implications for conservation prioritization and scenario evaluation. Landscape Ecology 35, 2301–2319 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-020-01111-8

Using PODs On Your Forest

Caggiano, MD, Brown H (2020). Using PODs on Your Forest. CFRI-2005.

Caggiano PODs New Mexico Case Study

Caggiano, MD, O’Connor, CD, & Sack, RB (2020). Potential Operational Delineations and Northern New Mexico’s 2019 Fire Season. CFRI-2002.

Caggiano Et Al Building Loss

Caggiano, MD, Hawbaker, TJ, Gannon, BM, & Hoffman, CM (2020). Building Loss in WUI Disasters: Evaluating the Core Components of the Wildland–Urban Interface Definition. Fire, 3, 73.

Cheng and Dale 2020 Fig. 1

Cheng, AS & Dale, L (2020). Achieving Adaptive Governance of Forest Wildfire Risk Using Competitive Grants: Insights From the Colorado Wildfire Risk Reduction Grant Program. Review of Policy Research. https://doi.org/10.1111/ropr.12379

ConnectedScience PODS Sept2020 (1)

Connected Science with RMRS (2020). When the Fire Starts: A Science-Based Framework for Risk-Based Incident Response.

Connected Science Battaglia Oct2020 (1)

Connected Science with RMRS (2020). Looking Into the Past: How Reconstructing Historical Forest Conditions Can Help Future Restoration Efforts.

Gannon Et Al A Geospatial Framework

Gannon, BM, Thompson, MP, Deming, KZ, Bayham, J, Wei, Y, O’Connor, CD (2020). A Geospatial Framework to Assess Fireline Effectiveness for Large Wildfires in the Western USA. Fire 3, 43.

Gannon Et Al Mitigating Source Water Risks

Gannon, BM, Wei, Y,  & Thompson, MP (2020). Mitigating Source Water Risks with Improved Wildfire Containment. Fire 3 (3), 45. doi.org/10.3390/fire3030045

Gannon Etal 2020 Mapping Spot Fire Transmission EnvSciProceed

Gannon BM, Thompson MP, Wei Y (2020). An Operationally Relevant Framework for Mapping Spot Fire Transmission Potential. Environmental Sciences Proceedings 3(1):13. https://doi.org/10.3390/IECF2020-08001

Fialko Et Al Ecological Niches

Fialko, K, Ex, S, Wolk, BH (2020). Ecological niches of tree species drive variability in conifer regeneration abundance following fuels treatments. Forest Ecology and Management 476. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2020.118475

PEMIP Post Fire Erosion Model Inter Comparison Project

Kampf, Stephanie K, Gannon, Benjamin M, Wilson, C, Saavedra, F, Miller, ME, Heldmyer, A, Livneh, B, Nelson, P, MacDonald, L. PEMIP: Post-fire erosion model inter-comparison project. Journal of Environmental Management 268. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.110704

Rodman Et Al

Rodman, KC, Veblen, TT, Battaglia,MA, Chambers, ME, Fornwalt, PJ, Holden, ZA, Kolb, TE, Ouzts, JR, Rother, MT (2020). A changing climate is snuffing out post-fire recovery in montane forests. Global Ecol Biogeogr. 2020;00: 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13174

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Southwest Ecological Restoration Institutes (SWERI) (2020). 2020 Cross-Boundary Restoration Workshop Summary: Advancing all-lands restoration in New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and surrounding states. ERI Workshop Report.

Thompson Et Al Prototyping A Geospatial Atlas

Thompson, MP, Gannon, BM, Caggiano, MD, O’Connor, CD, Brough, A, Gilbertson-Day, JW & Scott, JH (2020). Prototyping a Geospatial Atlas for Wildfire Planning and Management. Forests 11, 909.

2019 CFRI Annual Report

Wolk, BH, Brown H, (2020). SWERI Funding Case Studies. CFRI-2006.

FRRT Mulching Knowledge Summary And Implementation Guidelines

Wolk, BH, Stevens-Rumann, CS, Battaglia, MA, Wennogle, C, Dennis, C, Feinstein, JA, Garrison, K, and Edwards, G (2020). Mulching: A knowledge summary and guidelines for best practices on Colorado’s Front Range. CFRI-2001.

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Brown, H. “It’s about the people”: A Reflection and Reading List. CFRI-SB-1904. 

2019

Addington Et Al Opportunities For Broadcast Prescribed Fire

Addington, RN, Tavernia, BG, Caggiano, MD, Thompson, MP, Lawhon, JD, Sanderson, JS. (2019). Identifying opportunities for the use of broadcast prescribed fire on Colorado’s Front Range. Forest Ecology and Management 458. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2019.117655.

Barrett AFE Poster 2019

Barrett, KJ, Cannon, JB, Cheng, A. (2019).Effects of Collaborative Restoration and Adaptive Management on Forest Structure and Composition in the Colorado Front Range. Cultivating Pyrodiversity: 8th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress, Association for Fire Ecology, November 2019, Tuscon, AZ.

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Brown, H. Cutting Down Trees isn’t Always a Bad Thing. CFRI-SB-1901. 

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Brown, H. The Complexity of Forest Science and Management. CFRI-SB-1902. 

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Brown, H. We need to Reintroduce Fire in Fire Adapted Ecosystems. CFRI-SB-1903. 

Brown Et Al 2019 Identifying Old Trees

Brown, PM, Gannon, B, Battaglia, MA, Fornwalt, PJ, Huckaby, LS, Cheng, AS, and Baggett, LS. (2019). Identifying Old Trees to Inform Ecological Restoration in Montane Forests of the Central Rocky Mountains, USA. Tree Ring Research 75 (1), 34-48. doi.org/10.3959/1536-1098-75.1.34

PODs Collaborative Engagement White Paper FINAL

Caggiano, MD (2019). Collaboratively Engaging Stakeholders to Develop Potential Operational Delineations. CFRI-1908.

Caggiano NoCo Fireshed Model Comparison Report.3.11

Caggiano, MD (2019). Northern Colorado Fireshed Model Prioritization and Project Planning Workshop. CFRI-1915.

CFRI 1907 Cannon2019 JCOS Landscape Modeling Demo

Cannon, JB (2019). Application of tools for modeling stand-level restoration effects on landscape-scale heterogeneity: Pilot study for Jefferson County Open Space. CFRI-1907

Cannon_et_al_Rangelands

Cannon, JB, Gannon BM, Feinstein, JA, Wolk, BH. (2019). An Effects Assessment Framework for Dry Forest Conservation. Rangelands. doi.org/10.1016/j.rala.2019.07.002

Cannon Et Al ARP FinalReport

Cannon, JB, Gannon BM, Wurtzebach, Z (2019). Application of CFLRP monitoring to Forest Plan Monitoring of the Arapaho Roosevelt National Forest. CFRI-1909.

Cannon Et Al PSICC Landscape Analysis FinalReport

Cannon, JB, Gannon BM, Wurtzebach, Z, Cheng, AS (2019). Report on potential application of landscape-scale analyses for assistance with Forest planning. CFRI-1910.

Cannon WindandFire

Cannon, JB, Henderson, SK, Bailey, MH, and Peterson, CJ.  (2019) Interactions between wind and fire disturbance in forests: Competing amplifying and buffering effects.  Forest Ecology and Management 436, 117-128. doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2019.01.015

Cannon Et Al Variability

Cannon, JB, Tinkham, WT, DeAngelis, RK, Hill, EM, and Battaglia, MA.  (2019) Variability in Mixed Conifer Spatial Structure Changes Understory Light Environments.  Forests 10 (11) doi:10.3390/f10111015.

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Chambers, M.  2019.  2019 Uncompahgre Plateau Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Project:  Forestry Internship Program Progress Summary.  CFRI-1909.

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Chambers, ME (2019). 2018 Uncompaghre Plateau Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Project Forestry Internship Program Monitoring Report.  CFRI-1904.

Gannon 2019 Chaffee FTP Methods

Gannon BM. (2019). Chaffee County Fuel Treatment Prioritization. Poster. CFRI-1911.

Gannon 2019 Chaffee RA Methods

Gannon BM. (2019). Chaffee County Wildfire Risk Assessment. Poster. CFRI-1912.

The Collegiate Peaks in the San Isabel and Gunnison National Forests, Colorado on June 12, 2012. USDA photo by Bob Nichols.

Gannon BM. (2019). Chaffee County Wildfire Risk Assessment. CFRI-1913.

NPS / Jacob W. Frank

Gannon BM. (2019). Chaffee County Fuel Treatment Prioritization. CFRI-1914.

CFRI WRADS 2Pager May2019

Gannon BM, Brown, H, Wolk, BH. (2019). The Right Work in the Right Places: Prioritizing Fuels Reduction to Protect Water Supplies. CFRI-1905.

Gannon Et Al IJWF 2019 Water Supply Protection

Gannon BM, Wei Y, MacDonald LH, Kampf SK, Jones KW, Cannon JB, Wolk BH, Cheng AS, Addington RN, and Thompson MP. (2019). Prioritising fuels reduction for water supply protection. International Journal of Wildland Fire. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1071/WF18182

Pollinatorposter Preliminary FRSES

Gelles, R, Barrett, KJ, Davis, TS. (2019). Impacts of Forest Restoration Treatments on Pollinator Communities along the Colorado Front Range. Front Range Student Ecology Symposium, Colorado State University, February 2019, Fort Collins, CO.

FRSESposterpdf

Hartman, WM, JB Cannon, S Bradfield (2019). Using open-source abiotic sensors to monitor forest restoration treatments. Front Range Student Ecology Symposium, Colorado State University. February 2019 Fort Collins, CO.

Jonas Et Al Postfire Wood Mulch

Jonas, JL, Berryman, E, Wolk, B, Morgan, P, & Robichaud, PR. (2019). Post-fire wood mulch for reducing erosion potential increases tree seedlings with few impacts on understory plants and soil nitrogen. Forest and Ecology Management 453. doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2019.117567.

Kim Final Poster Revised Version

Kim, G, & Cannon, JB. 2019. National analysis of interactions between compounded forest disturbances from tornado and fire over 30 years (1984-2014).  2019 Annual meeting of the US Chapter of the International Association for Landscape Ecology. Fort Collins, CO.

Mattson Et Al Post Sprice Beetle Timber Salvage

Mattson, LR, Coop, JD, Battaglia, MA, Cheng, AS, Sibold, JS, & Viner, S. (2019).Post-spruce beetle timber salvage drives short-term surface fuel increases
and understory vegetation shifts. Forest Ecology and Management (437). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2019.01.048.

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Morici, K, Cannon, JB, Wolk, B. (2019) Mary’s Lake Monitoring Summary. Colorado Forest Restoration Institute. CFRI-1906.

A measuring tape extends through a plot of trees, some of which show signs of light fire damage.

Morici, K, Wolk, B, Cannon, JB, Gannon, B, Addington, R. (2019) 2018 Ecological Monitoring Report for Peaks to People Water Fund Demonstration Sites. Colorado Forest Restoration Institute. CFRI TB-1901.

Trees2Peter M. Brown, Rocky Mountain Tree Ring Research

Morici, K, Wolk, BH, Cheng, AS, Cannon, JB, Williams, EC, Caggiano, MD, Brown, H, Hoffman, CM. (2019). Colorado Wildfire Risk Reduction Grant Final Report. CFRI Monitoring Report. Colorado Forest Restoration Institute, Colorado State University. 23 p. CFRI-1903.

Mueller Et Al Climate Relationships With Increasing Wildfire

Mueller, SE, Thode, AE, Margolis, EQ, Yocom, LL, Young, JD, Iniguez, JM. (2020). Climate relationships with increasing wildfire in the southwestern US from 1984 to 2015. Forest Ecology and Management 460. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2019.117861

Roberts Et Al Stakeholder Perceptions

Roberts, RM, Jones, KW, Duke, E, Shinbrota, X, Harper, EE, Fons, E, Cheng, AS, Wolk, BH. (2019). Stakeholder perceptions and scientific evidence linking wildfire mitigation treatments to societal outcomes. Journal of Environmental Management (248). doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.109286.

Warnick AFE Poster 2019

Warnick, KJ & Cannon, JB. (2019). Changes in forest structure in Ponderosa pine-dominated ecosystems following restoration treatments. Cultivating Pyrodiversity: 8th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress, Association for Fire Ecology, November 2019, Tuscon, AZ.

USPP Monitoring Program 2019

Willams, E and Cannon, J (2019). Upper South Platte Partnership Ecological Resilience Monitoring.  Colorado Forest Restoration Institute.  CFRI-1902.

2018

forest maps and graphics from GTR 373

Addington, RN, Aplet, GH, Battaglia, MA,  Briggs, JS, Brown, PM, Cheng, AS, Dickinson, Y, Feinstein,JA, Pelz, KA, Regan, CM, Thinnes, J, Truex, R, Fornwalt, PJ,  Gannon, B, Julian, CW, Underhill, JL, Wolk, B. (2018). Principles and Practices for the Restoration of Ponderosa Pine and Dry Mixed-Conifer Forests of the Colorado Front Range.  USDA Forest Service – General Technical Report RMRS-GT (373 RMRS-GTR), 1-129.

Forest status charts

Barrett, K. and Cheng, T. (2018).  Front Range Roundtable Status of Knowledge.  CFRI-1803.

two canyon photos, decades apart

Battaglia, M, Gannon, B, Brown, P, Fornwalt, P, Cheng, T, and Huckaby, L.  (2018). Changes in forest structure since 1860 in ponderosa pine dominated forests in the Colorado and Wyoming Front Range, USA.  Forest Ecology and Management. 422, 147-160.  doi: 10.106/j.foreco.2018.04.010.

map of watershed and vegetation cover

Cannon, JB, Barrett, KJ, Gannon, BM, Cheng, AS (2018). Report on the potential application of CFLRP monitoring tools for development of Forest Plan monitoring. CFRI-1812.

Spatial data figure from a paper

Cannon, JB, Barrett, KJ, Gannon, BM, Addington, RN, Battaglia, MA, Fornwalt, PJ, Aplet, GH, Cheng, AS, Underhill, JL, Briggs, JS, and Brown, PM, 2018. Collaborative restoration effects on forest structure in ponderosa pine forests of Colorado. For. Ecol. Manage. 424, 191-204. doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2018.04.026

Geospatial map of Phantom Creek

Cannon, JB, Briggs, JS, and Chambers, ME. (2018).  Effects of forest restoration treatments and wildfires on tree spatial patterns in the Colorado Front Range.  2017 Fire Congress Research Highlight.

poster

Cannon JB, Chambers, ME, and Cheng, AS. (2018). Monitoring fine-scale spatial patterns of restoration treatments in the Uncompahgre Plateau. Uncompahgre Plateau Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Annual Stakeholder’s Meeting. Feb 13, 2018. Montrose, CO.

FIP

Chambers, M. (2018) Uncompahgre Plateau Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program:  High School Internship Programs.  CFRI-1804.

Social

Chambers, M. (2018) Uncompahgre Plateau Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program:  Social Impacts & Contributions.  CFRI-1805.

oak tree stand

Chambers, M. and Cannon, JB. (2018). Uncompaghre Plateau CFLRP Gambel oak understory response to mowing and prescribed burning treatments study summary. Colorado Forest Restoration Institute. CFRI-1801.

Ecological

Chambers, M. and Cannon, J. (2018) Uncompahgre Plateau Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program:  Ecological Impacts.  CFRI-1806.

Economic

Chambers, M. and Speas, C. (2018) Uncompahgre Plateau Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program:  Economic Impacts & Contributions.  CFRI-1807.

Mothership

Colorado Forest Restoration Institute (2018). Mothership Plot Protocol. CFRI-1810.

2016 Simple

Colorado Forest Restoration Institute (2018). 2018 Simple Plot Protocol. CFRI-1809.

DeAngelis poster

DeAngelis, R, Cannon, JB, Tinkham, WT, and Ex, SA. (2018). Effects of spatial heterogeneity on understory solar radiation in a mixed conifer forest. Front Range Student Ecology Symposium, Colorado State University, February 2018, Fort Collins, CO.

Elliot poster

Elliott, S, Cannon, JB, and Briggs, JS. (2018) Spatial and temporal effects of collaborative restoration on Front Range ponderosa pine dominated forests. Front Range Student Ecology Symposium, Colorado State University, February 2018, Fort Collins, CO.

Evensen CommonPlantsoftheColoradoFrontRange MontateZone

Evensen, KH (2018). Common Plants of the Colorado Front Range: Montane Zone. Colorado Forest Restoration Institute and Colorado State University Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship, Fort Collins, CO.

Gannon Et Al LivingwithFireWater

Gannon, B, Kampf, S, Wilson, C, Jones, K, Wei, Y,  MacDonald, L, Mattor, K, Nelson, P, Cheng, T, and Wolk, B. (2018). Living With Fire & Water.  Colorado Water 35(5), 22-25. http://www.cwi.colostate.edu/media/img/newsletters/2018/CW_35_5.pdf.

Johnson Et Al 2018

Johnson, JD, Dunn, CJ, Vernon, MJ, Bailey, JD, Morrissette, BA, and Morici, KE. (2018). Restoring historical forest conditions in a diverse inland Pacific Northwest landscape.  Ecosphere 9(8), 1-23. doi: 10.1002/ecs2.2400.

forest maps

Malone, S, Fornwalt, P, Battaglia, M, Chambers, M, Iniguez, J, and Seig, C. (2018). Mixed-severity fire fosters heterogeneous spatial patterns of conifer regeneration in a dry conifer forest. Forests, 9. doi: 10.3390/f9010045.

Mothership

Colorado Forest Restoration Institute (2018). Monitoring Immediate Postburn Vegetation and Fuel Characteristics Protocol. CFRI-1808.

Woody Photoload

Morici, K. and Cannon, J.  (2018) Photoload calibration of fine woody fuels in montane forests of Colorado: 2016-2017.  CFRI-1811.

Thompson Et Al Analyzing Supression Difficulty

Thompson, MP, Liu, Z, Wei, Y, & Caggiano, MD. (2018). Analyzing Wildfire Suppression Difficulty in Relation to Protection Demand. In Mihai, FC & Grozavu, A (Eds.), Environmental Risks. DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.76937. 

Rhoades Et All 2018 Forests

Rhoades, C, Pelz, K, Fornwalt, P, Wolk, B, and Cheng, T. (2018) Overlapping Bark Beetle Outbreaks, Salvage Logging and Wildfire Restructure a Lodgepole Pine Ecosystem.  Forests, 9. doi: 10.3390/f9030101.

Schuetter poster

Schuetter, A, JB Cannon, and KJ Barrett. (2018). Effects of restoration treatments and adaptive management on forest structure in ponderosa pine forests of the Colorado Front Range. Celebrate Undergraduate Research and Creativity Showcase. April 2018. Fort Collins, CO.

2017

title page of a paper with forest picture

Baker, WL. (2017). The landscapes they are a-changin’–Severe 19th-century fires, spatial complexity, and natural recovery in historical landscapes on the Uncompaghre Plateau.  Colorado Forest Restoration Institute. CFRI-1704.

Monitoring Plan paper title page

Barrett, K, Brown, P, Clement, J, Cannon, J, Wolk, B, and Cheng, T. (2017).  Front Range Roundtable Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Project:  2017 Ecological, Social, and Economic Monitoring Plan.  CFRI-1705.

trees per acre chart of a conifer forest

Battaglia, M, Sibold, J, Carlson, A, Cheng, T, and Barrett, K. (2017).  Spruce Beetle Epidemic and Aspen Decline Management Response (SBEADMR) Science Team Update — Summer 2016.

Fuel Treatment Database paper title page

Caggiano, M. (2017). Front Range Round Table 2016 Interagency Fuel Treatment Database. Colorado Forest Restoration Institute. CFRI-1701.

Spatial Pattern Monitoring paper figure

Cannon, JB, Chambers, M, and Cheng, A. (2017). Monitoring trends in forest spatial patterns: Uncompaghre Plateau Collaborative Landscape Restoration Program. Colorado Forest Restoration Institute. CFRI-1703.

forest structure drawing

Cannon, JB, Peterson, CJ, O’Brien, JJ, and Brewer, S. (2017). A review and classification of interactions between forest disturbances from wind and fire. Forest Ecology and Management 406: 381-390.

title page of a paper

Chambers, M. and Cannon, J. B. (2017). Uncompaghre Plateau CFLRP Gambel oak understory response to mowing and prescribed burning treatments study summary. Colorado Forest Restoration Institute. CFRI-1707.

paper title page

Chambers, M. (2017). 2017 Uncompaghre Plateau Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Project Forestry Internship Program (FIP) Progress Summary. Colorado Forest Restoration Institute. CFRI-1706.

2017 Mothership

Colorado Forest Restoration Institute (2017). CFRI Simple Plot Protocol. CFRI-1709.

2017 Mothership

Colorado Forest Restoration Institute (2017). CFRI Mothership Plot Protocol. CFRI-1708.

watershed maps

Gannon, B, Wolk, B, Wei, Y, Kampf, S, Jones, K, MacDonald, L, Addington, R, Cheng, T, and Cannon, J. (2017). Connecting forests and water: Fuel treatment assessment and planning tools. Colorado Water 3: 9–11.

2017 MultiParty Monitoring Plan paper title page

Gardiner, T, Robertson, L, Free, J, Cheng, T, and Chambers, M. (2017).  Multi-party monitoring for the Uncompaghre Plateau Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Project. Colorado Forest Restoration Institute.  CFRI-1702.

 

title page of a paper

Jones, KE, Cannon, JB, Saavedra, FA, Kampf, SK, Addington, RN, Cheng, AS, MacDonald, LH, Wilson, C, and Wolk, B. (2017).  Return on investment from fuel treatments to reduce severe wildfire and erosion in a watershed investment program in Colorado.  Journal of Environmental Management. 198, 66-77.

Minatre Biochar Bibliography paper title page

Minatre, K. (2017) Biochar — Annotated Bibliography of Biochar Research.

geospatial map around Gunnison, CO

Prolic, C, Ex, S, Battaglia, M, and Sibold, S. (2017). The effects of drought on Engelmann spruce regeneration in Southwest Colorado.  

paper title page

Zeigler, J, Hoffman, C, Fornwalt, P, Seig, C, Battaglia, M, Chambers, M, and Iniguez, J. (2017). Tree regeneration spatial patterns in ponderosa pine forests following stand-replacing fire:  influence of topography and neighbors.  Forests, 8.  doi:10.3390/f8100391.

2016

2016 Buechling Et Al Paper

Buechling, A, Martin, PH, Canham, CD, Shepperd, WD, Battaglia, MA. (2016). Climate drivers of seed production in Picea engelmanni and response to warming temperatures in the southern Rocky Mountains. Journal of Ecology. 

2016 Jam Session Paper

Cannon, JB. and Barrett, KJ. (2016). Front Range CFLRI Monitoring: Progress, Outcomes, and Recommendations. Colorado Forest Restoration Institute. CFRI-1603. 

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Cannon, J, Hepinstall–Cymerman, J, Godfrey, C, and Peterson, C. (2016). Landscape-scale patterns of forest tornado damage in mountainous terrain. Landscape Ecology, 31: 2097–2114.

2016 Crew Progress paper

Chambers, M. (2016). 2016 Uncompaghre Plateau Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Project Forestry Internship Program (FIP) Progress Summary.  Colorado Forest Restoration Institute. CFRI-1602. 

2016 Gambel Oak Paper

Chambers, M. and Cannon, JB. (2016).  Uncompaghre Plateau CFLRP Gambel oak understory response to mowing and prescribed burning treatments study summary. Colorado Forest Restoration Institute. CFRI-1601.

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Chambers, M, Fornwalt, P, Malone, S, and Battaglia, M. (2016).  Patterns of conifer regeneration following high severity wildfire in ponderosa pine-dominated forests of the Colorado Front Range.  Forest Ecology and Management, 378, 57-67.  doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2016.07.001.

2016 Mothership

Colorado Forest Restoration Institute (2016). CFRI Mothership Plot Protocol (2016). CFRI-1604.

2016 Dickinson Et al paper

Dickinson, Y, Pelz, K, Giles, E, and Howie, J. (2016).  Have we been successful? Monitoring horizontal forest complexity for forest restoration projects. Restoration Ecology (24)1. 8-17. 

2016 UP Spruce Seeding paper

Prolic, C. (2016). Englemann spruce germination in group selection: first-year results from Columbine patch study-March 2016.

2016 USPP Final Report paper

Huayhuaca, C. (2016). Collaborative Watershed Assessment: A Profile of the Upper South Platte Partnership. Colorado Forest Restoration Institute 

2016 Spruce Regeneration Paper

Pelz, K. (2016). Englemann spruce regeneration following natural disturbances and forest management: A literature and expert-knowledge review focused on southwestern Colorado. Colorado Forest Restoration Institute. 

2016 Simple

Wolk, B. and Hoffman, C. (2016). CFRI Simple Plot Protocol. Colorado Forest Restoration Institute. CFRI-1605.

2015

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Baker, W. (2015). Reconstructing late-1800s landscapes of the Uncompaghre Plateau using the General Land Office surveys.

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Bergemann, H, Mattor, K, and Cheng, T. (2015). Colorado Uncompaghre Plateau Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Project: 2013 Social and Economic Monitoring Report.

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Brown, PM, Battaglia, MA, Fornwalt, PJ, Gannon, B, Huckaby, LS, Julian, C, Cheng, AS. (2015).  Historical (1860) forest structure in ponderosa pine forests of the northern Front Range, Colorado.  Canadian Journal of Forest Research 45, 1462-1473.  https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2014-0387.

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Cheng, TS, Gerlak, AK, Dale, L, and Mattor, K. (2015). Examining the adaptability of collaborative governance associated with managed ecosystems over time: insights from the Front Range Roundtable, Colorado, USA.

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Colorado Forest Restoration Institute (2015).Protocol for regeneration surveys in the Unc Mesas treated units-Summer 2015.

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Front Range CFLRP monitoring jam session 2015 summary. (2015).

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Griebenow, C. and Pelz, K. (2015). Uncompaghre Mesas Project Area 2015 Monitoring Report.

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Tinkham, W, Ziegler, J, Hoffman, C, Battaglia, M. (2015). Changes in forest structure and fire behavior on the Unc Mesa restoration project: results from a stem-map inventory and physics based fire behavior modeling.

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Wolk, B, Ertl, E, and Fornwalt, P. (2015). Protocol for Monitoring Understory Plant Response to Front Range Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (FR-CFLRP) Treatments.

2015 Simple Plot

Wolk, B. and Hoffman, C. (2015). Field data collection protocol for evaluating fire mitigation effectiveness (CFRI Simple Plot Protocol). Colorado Forest Restoration Institute. CFRI-1601.

2015 WRRG

Wolk, B. and Hoffman, C. (2015). Wildfire Risk Reduction Grant Monitoring Protocol (resampling). Colorado Forest Restoration Institute. CFRI-1602.

2014

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Addington, R, Pelz, K, and Cheng, T. (2014). Colorado Front Range Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Project: Ecological Monitoring of Treatment Effects on Stand Structure and Fuels through 2013.

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Aplet, G, Brown, P, Briggs, J. Mayben, S, Edwards, D, and Cheng, T. (2014). Collaborative implementation of forest landscape restoration in the Colorado Front Range. Technical Brief CFRI-TB-1403, Colorado Forest Restoration Institute, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado.

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Cheng, T. (2014). Colorado Bark Beetle Cooperative Hazards Narrative.

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Dickinson, Y. (2014). Landscape restoration of a forest with a historically mixed-severity fire regime: What was the historical landscape pattern of forest and openings? Forest Ecology and Management, 331, pp.264-271.

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Dickinson, Y. and Giles, E. (2014). Monitoring landscape-scale forest heterogeneity: a protocol. Technical Brief CFRI-TB-1404, Colorado Forest Restoration Institute, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado.

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Dickinson, Y. and Spatial Heterogeneity Subgroup of the Front Range Roundtable. (2014). Desirable Forest Structures for a Restored Front Range.

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Matonis, M, Binkley, D, Tuten, M, and Cheng, T. (2014). The Forests They Are A-Changin’—Ponderosa pine and mixed conifer forests on the Uncompahgre Plateau in 1875 and 2010-13.

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Mattor, K. (2014). A Case Study of Collaboration: The Uncompahgre Plateau Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Project.

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Mattor, K. and Cheng, T. (2014). Colorado Front Range Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Project: Social and Economic Monitoring Report for 2013.

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Pelz, K. and Dickinson, Y. (2014). Monitoring forest cover spatial patterns with aerial imagery: a tutorial. Technical Brief CFRI-TB-1401, Colorado Forest Restoration Institute, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado.

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Romme, W. (2014). Pinyon-Juniper Ecosytems on the Uncompaghre Plateau: Assessment of our current knowledge and information needs.

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Schultz, CA, Coelho, DL, Beam, RD. (2014). Design and governance of multiparty monitoring under the USDA Forest Service’s Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program.

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Snee, T. L, Cheng, T, and Mattor, K, (2014). Colorado Uncompahgre Plateau Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Project: Social and Economic Monitoring Report for 2012.

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Wolk, B. (2014). Wildfire Risk Reduction Grant Program Monitoring and Assessment Status Summary, January 2014.

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Zeigler, J. (2014). Treatment effects on structure and fire behavior in the Uncompaghre Mesas forest restoration project-March 2014.

2013

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Addington, RN, Korb, JE, Cheng, T. (2013). Sudden Aspen Decline in Southwestern Colorado: Results from new research evaluating causal mechanisms and implications for understory microclimates, plant communities, and aspen regeneration. , Colorado Forest Restoration Institute Field Study Brief, Colorado State University, CFRI-FSB-1301. Fort Collins, CO. 4 p.

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Hoffman, C, Sieg, C, Morgan, P, Mell, W, Linn, R, Stevens-Rumann, C, McMillin, J, Parsons, R, Maei, H. (2013).  Progress in Understanding Bark Beetle Effects on Fire Behavior Using Physics-Based Models.

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Mattor, K. (2013). A Case Study of Collaboration: The Front Range Roundtable and The Colorado Front Range Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Project.

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Mattor, K, Snee, T, Cheng, T, Schaefers, J, Ng, K, Howie, J, Lyon, K. (2013). Colorado Front Range Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Project: Social and Economic Monitoring Report for 2012.

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Southern Rockies Fire Science Network and The Nature Conservancy. (2013). Smoke Model Evaluation Workshop.

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Speas, C, Lockwood, C, Robertson, L, Free, J, Binkley, D, Cheng, T. (2013). Multi-Party Monitoring for the Uncompahgre Plateau Collaborative Restoration Project.

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Wolk, B. and Hoffman, C. (2013). Wildfire Risk Reduction Grant Monitoring Protocol. Colorado Forest Restoration Institute.

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Young, N, Reeder, C, Addington, R, Dickinson, Y, Evangelista, P, Cheng, T. (2013). Colorado Front Range Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Project: 2011-2012 Pre- and Post-treatment Stand Structure Analyses for the Pike and San Isabel and Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests.

2012

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Alsanousi, A, Lowrance, B, Derderian, D, Elm, T, Walsh, R, Garvey, B, Binkley, D. (2012). Aspen recruitment on the UP: why aren’t there more young aspen?

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Battaglia, M.,  Brown, P., Fornwalt, P., Gannon, B. (2012). Sampling Protocols: Front Range Forest Reconstruction Network (FRFRNet).

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Clement, J, Motley, P, Anderson, N. (2012). Understanding the discourse of forest restoration and biomass utilization: a Q-method case study of the Uncompaghre Plateau in western Colorado, USA.

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Dickinson, Y. and Pelz, K. (2012). Proposed methods for monitoring “groupy-clumpy” forest cover characteristics at the stand scale.

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Fornwalt, P, Brown, P, Huckaby, L, Battaglia, M, Cheng, T. (2012). The Front Range Forest Reconstruction Network: Reconstructing Forest Structure and Fire History in Montane Front Range Forests to Inform Restoration Activities. Poster for Association for Fire Ecology conference, December 2012.

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Hasstedt, S. (2012). Forest structure in unroaded old-growth: understanding the influence of soils on variability of long-term vegetation dynamics and fire history.

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Korb, J. (2012). Warm/dry mixed conifer in southwestern Colorado: a brief synthesis of research on the San Juan National Forest.

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Korb, J. (2012). Predisposing and contributing factors associated with aspen mortality and the effects of Sudden Aspen Decline on ecological attributes, southwestern Colorado, USA.

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Mattor, K, Ng, K, Schaefers, J, Cheng, T, Tremblatt, C. (2012). Colorado Front Range Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Project: Social and Economic Monitoring Report for 2011.

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Moriarty, K. and Cheng, T. (2012). Hayman Fire Research Summary, 2003–2012.  Prepared for the Hayman Fire Science Symposium, June 21-22, 2012.

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Pelz, K. and Dickinson, Y. (2012). Proposed methods for monitoring forest canopy spatial structure.

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Shultz, C. and Coelho, D. (2012). The Design and Governance of Multi-Party Monitoring Under the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program.

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Wudke, B. and Cheng, T. (2012). Colorado Front Range Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Project: Pretreatment Stand Structure Report for 2011.

2011

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Alsanousi, A,  Lowrance, B, Derderian, D, Elm, T, Walsh, R, Garvey, T, Romme, B, Binkley, D. (2011). How old are aspens on the Uncompahgre Plateau?

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Burns, S, Cox, M, Gore, J, Musser, B, Schrock, S, Files, R, Chapman, M. (2011). A Story of People and Landscapes in Transition The Uncompahgre Plateau 1880 to the Present.

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Clement, J. and Brown, P. (2011). Front Range Roundtable Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Project 2011 Ecological, Social and Economic Monitoring Plan.

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Hazelhurst, S, Lockwood, C, Motley, P, Free, J, Cheng, T. (2011). Multi-party Monitoring for the Uncompahgre Plateau Collaborative Restoration Project–original.

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Keralis, M, Binkley, D, Cheng, T. (2011). Current Forest Conditions for the Uncompahgre Mesas Forest Restoration Project.

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Korb, J. (2011). The Effect of Tree Harvesting on Soil Resistance to Penetration (Compaction): BioFuel Project, Pagosa Springs Ranger District, San Juan National Forest, Colorado, Pre-Treatment Report.

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Lyon, P. and Hollinbeck, S. (2011). Burn Canyon Vegetation Monitoring Final Report.

2010

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Brown, P. (2010). Beyond the Bugs: The Future Range of Variability of Communities and Forest Landscapes.

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Brown, P, Rocca, M, Clement, J, Hayward, G, Rhoades, C, Collins, B, and Skorkowsky, R. (2010).  Some Ecological Considerations Regarding the Future Range of Variability of Lodgepole Pine Ecosystems in Colorado And Wyoming.

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Clement, J, Cheng, T, and Mattor, K. (2010). Study of Forest Management Preferences and Values for the Woodland Park Healthy Forest Initiative.

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Colorado Forest Restoration Institute. (2010). Signs of Recovery for Colorado Forests in the Wake of the Mountain Pine Beetle.

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Knapp, C. (2010). Uncompahgre Mesas Forest Restoration Project: Collaborative Case Study.

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Knapp, C. (2010). Woodland Park Healthy Forest Initiative: Collaborative Case Study.

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Pelz, K. (2010). Mixed-conifer Forests in Southwest Colorado:  A Summary of Existing Knowledge and Considerations for Restoration and Management.

2009

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Romme, B, Floyd, L, and Hanna, D. (2009). The Forests of Southwestern Colorado and Northwestern New Mexico: How the Past and Present Inform our Choices for the Future.

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Romme, B, Floyd, L, and Hanna, D. (2009). Historical Range of Variability and Current Landscape Condition Analysis: South Central Highlands Section, Southwestern Colorado & Northwestern New Mexico.

2008

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Binkley, D, Romme, B, and Cheng, T. (2008). Historical Forest Structure on the Uncompahgre Plateau: Informing restoration prescriptions for mountainside stewardship.

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Gass, T. (2008). Reducing Barriers to Use of Prescribed Fire in Privately Owned Forests.

2007

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Dennis, F. and Sturtevant, B. (2007). Forest Restoration Guidelines in Ponderosa Pine on the Front Range of Colorado.

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Kaufmann, M, Veblen, T, and Romme, W.  (2007). Historical fire regimes in ponderosa pine forests of the Colorado Front Range, and recommendations for ecological restoration and fuels management.

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Romme, B, Allen, C, Bailey, J, Baker, W, Bestelmeyer, B, Brown, P, Eisenhart, K, Floyd-Hanna, L, Huffman, D,  Jacobs, B, Miller, R, Muldavin, E, Swetnam, T, Tausch, R, and Weisberg, P.  (2007). Historical and Modern Disturbance Regimes of Piñon-Juniper Vegetation in the Western U.S.

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Romme, B, Allen, C, Bailey, J, Baker, W, Bestelmeyer, B, Brown, P, Eisenhart, K, Floyd-Hanna, L, Huffman, D,  Jacobs, B, Miller, R, Muldavin, E, Swetnam, T, Tausch, R, and Weisberg, P. (2007). Historical and Modern Disturbance Regimes, Stand Structures, and Landscape Dynamics in Piñon‐Juniper Vegetation of the Western U.S.

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Webb, J. (2007). Photo guide for appraising downed woody masticated fuels in interior Ponderosa pine forests on the Colorado Front Range: Part One of a four part series on interior Ponderosa pine, Gambel oak, mixed conifer and lodgepole pine cover types.

2006

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How Have Forest Conditions Changed in the Laramie Foothills of Colorado during the past 60 years? (2006).

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Romme, WH, Clement, J, Hicke, J, Kulakowski, D, MacDonald, LH, Schoennagel, TL, & Veblen, TT (2006). Recent Forest Insect Outbreaks and Fire Risk in Colorado Forests: A Brief Synthesis of Relevant Research.

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What’s Happening in Colorado’s Aspen Forests? Gradual, long‐term changes and recent widespread death of aspen trees. (2006).