'When the dust settles:' Colorado stakeholders watch for major changes in national forests

'When the dust settles:' Colorado stakeholders watch for major changes in national forests

"This is a typical bug-kill, blow-down mess that should have been harvested 20 years ago," says Mark Morgan as he surveys a tract of lodgepole pine on a slope of national forest land west of Fort Collins.

Forests taking longer to recover from severe ‘megafires’ since 2010 — Carbon Brief #ActOnClimate

A ponderosa pine seedling peeks out of the Hayman-Fire scarred landscape near Cheesman Reservoir. After the fire, Denver Water spent more than 10 years working with volunteers and Colorado State Forest Service crews to plant about 25,000 trees per year on the 7,500 acres of Denver Water property destroyed by Hayman. Photo credit: Denver Water Click the link to read the article on the Carbon Brief website (Orla Dwyer). Here’s an excerpt: May 2, …

CSU Launches Public Tool for Tracking Forest Management and Wildfire Mitigation

FORT COLLINS, Colo. —  The Colorado State Forest Service and the Colorado Forest Restoration Institute, both part of Colorado State University, have compiled data and designed a new dashboard to make information about forest management available to the public. The Colorado Forest Tracker will inform strategies for improving forest health and reducing wildfire risk, and policymakers can use it to help guide funding decisions to best meet state ne…