Forest Resilience Planning Guide
This guide offers a framework for agencies, private landowners and local collaboratives to align their forest management strategies, leverage resources and sustain forest health.
Forests across Colorado provide invaluable social, economic and ecological benefits. Ensuring Colorado’s forests are resilient to disturbances like wildfire requires coordinated efforts. The Colorado Forest Resilience Planning Guide provides a framework for agencies, private landowners and local partners to align their forest management strategies, leverage resources effectively and sustain forest health to protect the many benefits that forests provide.
The Colorado Forest Health Council developed this guide with funding and support from the Colorado State Forest Service and the Colorado Forest Restoration Institute. The guide empowers communities to implement strategies across boundaries with a focus on mitigating, responding to and recovering from common disturbances like wildfire, insects, diseases and drought. Featuring 15 actionable steps, it provides tools to strengthen collaboration, integrate community values and access science-based resources tailored to local landscapes.
By fostering collaborative planning and adaptive management, this guide helps communities better position themselves to secure funding and achieve lasting forest health and resilience.