This post compiles resources & summaries that we believe to be most relevant to Colorado’s place-based forest collaboratives. It is not an official Colorado Forest Health Council webpage.
What is the Colorado Forest Health Council (CFHC)?
The CFHC is a 26-member volunteer stakeholder body whose role is “to provide a collaborative forum to advise the Governor, through the Executive Director of the Department of Natural Resources, and the Colorado General Assembly, on issues, opportunities, and threats to Colorado’s forests.”
3 ways to keep up with the CFHC:
Quarterly Meetings: Written Summaries & Meeting Recordings
Recognizing that many people do not have time to attend a 3-hour meeting, we are providing written summaries in which we distill information most relevant to Colorado’s place-based forest collaboratives into a few pages.
- January 2024 quarterly meeting: Summary
- October 2023 quarterly meeting: Summary | Recording
- July 2023 quarterly meeting: Summary | Recording
- May 2023 quarterly meeting: Written summary | Recording
- We hosted a Branching Out session following this meeting, where Katie shared a verbal summary of the meeting & requested input from collaboratives to share with the CFHC.
- Branching Out summary presentation | Recommendations
- February 2023 quarterly meeting: Summary | Recording
Attending Meetings
All CFHC meetings are open to the public and are recorded. See below for meeting types & frequencies:
- Full CFHC | Quarterly
- 2024 Dates:
- January 31st, 2024
- Wednesday, April 24th
- Wednesday, July 24th
- October meeting date TBD
- Meetings are currently scheduled from 9am – 12pm on their respective dates; times are subject to change.
- 2024 Dates:
- Committee on Leveraging Resources | First Tuesday of the month from 12 – 1pm
- Legislative Committee | Every other Friday from 8:30 – 9:20am
Meeting agendas and invitations will be posted on the CFHC webpage (near the bottom of the page) 24 hours before each meeting.
Annual Reports
Each year, the CFHC briefs the Wildfire Matters Review Committee (a committee of the Colorado state legislature) and submits a report to the Governor.
Get in touch!
Katie McGrath Novak serves on the CFHC as ‘an individual employed by or associated with a forest collaborative organization.’ Please feel free to reach out if you have questions, comments, or ideas to share.
The full list of current CFHC members can be found toward the bottom of the CFHC webpage.
