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FULL ARTICLE HERE Wildland fire managers can utilize the snag hazard map to identify potentially dangerous conditions and direct fire responders away from high-risk areas. 

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FULL ARTICLE HERE Scientists and partners are working to advance our understanding of fire, developing planning tools, and understanding public perceptions to help reduce barriers to conducting prescribed fires.

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FULL ARTICLE HERE Scientists developed a new tool to help wildland fire personnel know if a safety zone is large enough to protect firefighters.

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FULL ARTICLE HERE The above document provides updated minimum standards and guidelines for developing Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPPs), as originally directed per Colorado Senate Bill 09-001

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FULL ARTICLE HERE Using a novel model of bark beetle biology and host tree interactions, we assessed how contemporary warming affected western pine beetle populations and mortality of its host, ponderosa pine, during an extreme drought in the Sierra Nevada, California.

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FULL ARTICLE HERE Science-based adaptation options include the use of managed wildfire, prescribed burning, and coupled mechanical thinning and prescribed burning as is consistent with land management allocations and forest conditions.

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FULL ARTICLE HERE The Colorado Forest Restoration Institute (CFRI) is developing a spatial database of forest restoration and fuel treatment projects occurring in Colorado.

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FULL ARTICLE HERE Land management and fire management goals are increasingly framed in terms of resilience, in part due to the combined impacts of climate change, land-use change, and legacies of land management. Implicit in this framing is the recognition that resilience to wildfire involves both ecological and social dimensions. Discussions surrounding resilience often do…

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