To make Colorado forests and communities more resilient to wildfire, Gov. Jared Polis has announced $8.5 million in Forest Restoration and Wildfire Risk Mitigation grants to 35 projects in 24 counties.
Colorado State Forest Service staff helped San Luis Valley Health receive the first Healthcare Tree Campus designation in Colorado from the Arbor Day Foundation.
This success story shows what’s possible when we invest in our forests before wildfires start. Proactive forest management works. And the CSFS and partners play a vital role in protecting communities, ecosystems and water resources from the threat of wildfire.
The Colorado State Forest Service and its partners conducted a vast majority of their forest management work in high-priority areas of the state and greatly increased the acres of forests they managed and enhanced annually from 2020 through 2024.
During winter dry spells, it’s critical to water trees so they can survive into spring.
Colorado State Forest Service experts joined Gov. Jared Polis on Monday to announce increased wildfire mitigation and other efforts to protect Colorado forests and communities amid a mountain pine beetle outbreak that is killing trees, which could fuel extreme fires along the Front Range.
Forests absorb carbon through photosynthesis and release it through respiration, decomposition and combustion.
The CSFS recently completed an accounting of carbon stored in Colorado’s harvested wood products. This S&D Byte provides key findings, trends over time and context from this inventory.
The Colorado Wildfire Risk Assessment (CO-WRA) is a statewide geospatial analysis designed to increase wildfire awareness, provide comprehensive data and information concerning wildfire risk and local fire history and educate users about wildfire risk reduction and hazard mitigation resources available from the Colorado State Forest Service (CSFS) and partner organizations. The 2022 CO-WRA update was released on July 17, 2023.
