
Forest health project protects largest neighborhood in southwest Colorado
The Grassy Mountain Shared Stewardship project improves forest health and resilience in the San Juan Mountains.
As more people build homes, operate businesses and recreate in areas where natural vegetation meets human improvements, wildfire threats to life and property increase.
Wildfire mitigation actions are on-the-ground treatments of properties implemented to reduce the chance of a wildfire causing damage. The Colorado State Forest Service (CSFS) is the lead state agency for fuels mitigation expertise in Colorado and an excellent resource for residents who want to gain more information and take steps to decrease the threat of wildfire where it matters most to them.
More than 3 million Coloradans live in the wildland-urban interface (WUI). Are you one of them?
The wildland-urban interface is any area where man-made improvements are built close to, or within, flammable vegetation. If you live in the WUI, you are at risk.
The Colorado State Forest Service (CSFS) develops educational materials and supports programs that help residents and communities take action to reduce their wildfire risk.
As part of Colorado’s Forest Action Plan, the CSFS and its partners identified goals and strategies for living with wildfire in Colorado. These include encouraging development of fire-adapted communities through increasing the pace and scale of wildfire risk reduction activities. The CSFS provides a variety of programs and resources for residents and communities working to achieve this goal.
Remember that protecting a home, property and a community from wildfire is not a one-time effort. It is a process and requires ongoing participation, maintenance and shared responsibility. The following programs and resources are tools that can help residents and communities begin the process of reducing their wildfire risk.
The Grassy Mountain Shared Stewardship project improves forest health and resilience in the San Juan Mountains.
Spring is a good time of year to prepare one’s home and property for wildfire, and Gov. Jared Polis proclaimed May as Wildfire Awareness Month to encourage residents to be ready for fire and prevent human-caused wildfires.
Gov. Polis and the CSFS announced $7.04 million in Forest Health and Wildfire Risk Mitigation grants to 37 projects in 26 counties across Colorado.
The annual forest health report assesses how insects are building populations in forests across the state and changing fuel dynamics for wildfire as they leave dead and dying trees in their wake.
The Rock Creek Mechanical Fuels Reduction Project boosts forest conditions on 767 acres in southwest Colorado.
Landowners at the base of Mount Princeton earn ninth Firewise USA designation in Chaffee County.