Is your collaborative ready to prepare landscapes and communities to receive and recover from wildfire?
By Hannah Brown and Ch’aska Huayhuaca Colorado Forest Restoration Institute (CFRI), Colorado State University image credit: LVBrown Studios, LLC Imagine a future in which, when a wildland fire ignites and spreads towards highly valued resources and assets, it burns through the area with minimal damage and loss. Reduced fuel loads result in less smoke, and […]
Collaboratives Behind the Scenes: Altar Valley Conservation Alliance
Welcome to the Western Collaborative Conservation Network’s profile series “Collaboratives Behind-the-Scenes.” This series features Q&As with different conservation organizations to provide a view into what it takes to run a collaborative organization from challenges faced in building partnerships to tips for budding organizations. Whether you’re already running a collaborative and are looking to increase your […]
Advice about Forest Restoration & Wildfire Risk Mitigation (FRWRM) grant applications due October 19th, 2022
This blog post is intended to assist 2022 FRWRM applicants strengthen their applications. Please visit the official FRWRM webpage for full details on the grant and to apply. If you are interested in applying or have more questions, contact your local Colorado State Forest Service Field Office. At a Glance: Helpful FRWRM Tips from […]
CCC News – February 2022
We have a lot to share in this month’s CCC News: We’re welcoming our Cohort 12 Fellows, participating in webinars on the Marshall Fire and on grassland management, learning about the community-based conservation of the Prebble’s Meadow Jumping Mouse, and more. And as always, you’ll find jobs and other opportunities to get involved in collaborative […]
CCC News – April 2021
Our monthly newsletter is out! Find out what’s going on at the CCC, from continuing conversations about collaboration, fire, and wolves, to meeting some of the CCC team. And as always, it’s packed full of opportunities to get involved in collaborative conservation, including job openings, upcoming events, and available funding. Read it here.
After the Fire: Finding Value in Burned Timber within the 2-3-2
After the Fire: Finding Value in Burned Timber within the 2-3-2 by Tim Reader, Fellows Cohort 9 In 2018, Colorado and the West experienced one of the worst wildfire seasons on record. Even though a lot of resources are put towards conducting fire mitigation needed in the WUI (Wildlife Urban Interface), our Team is identifying […]
Adaptive Management in Bird Conservation
The Bird Conservancy of the Rockies shared two blogs about adaptive management and collaborative conservation recently. Cowboys, Collaboration, and Conservation is on the CARM (Collaborative Adaptive Rangeland Management) project. Building Resilience is from one of our stewardship biologists in Montana about last summer’s fires.
Collaborative Watershed Assessment: A Profile of the Upper South Platte Partnership
About: Water supplies critical to a variety of users originate in forested watersheds. These forests are prone to increasingly large and severe wildfires that can result in costly damage to water supplies and delivery systems. Reducing these risks has become a high priority for water providers in Colorado and across the interior West. The Upper South […]
