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Learn from the burn: The High Park Fire 5 years later

From the Rocky Mountain Research Station:

The 2012 High Park Fire that occurred near Fort Collins, CO was particularly severe with nearly half of the total burn area being classified as high and moderate burn severity. This 85,000-acre wildfire caused extensive property damage, loss of life, and severe impacts to the water quality of the Poudre River. This Bulletin highlights what has been learned by RMRS scientists and collaborators about the response to the High Park fire including fire effects, treatment area prioritization, and postfire treatments (multiple mulch treatments, seeding). We also discuss the latest available online postfire treatment planning tools.

Read the brief here.

More on this topic here.

Posted by:
Gloria Edwards
Published on:
April 8, 2020

Categories: Publication, Research Brief/SynthesisTags: Colorado, Colorado Front Range, fire-adapted communities and fire response, Forest Management, forests, high-severity wildfire, landscape restoration and resilience, lodgepole pine, ponderosa pine, post-fire assessment, post-fire debris flows, post-fire erosion, post-fire runoff, post-fire treatments, property damage, Rocky Mountain Research Station, stream sedimentation

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