Colorado State Forest Service
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
In 2009, the Colorado General Assembly passed legislation titled the Colorado Healthy Forests and Vibrant Communities Act (HB09-1199), which increases efforts to address wildfire risk, provides resources to the Colorado State Forest Service to augment its technical outreach capabilities, and provides loans and grants for market-based and forest treatment solutions to reduce wildfire risk. With this legislation, the CSFS has been able to increase services...
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
In 2009, the Colorado General Assembly passed legislation titled the Colorado Healthy Forests and Vibrant Communities Act (HB09-1199), which increases efforts to address wildfire risk, provides resources to the Colorado State Forest Service to augment its technical outreach capabilities, and provides loans and grants for market-based and forest treatment solutions to reduce wildfire risk.
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
Colorado's forested landscapes are essential to our well-being. Yet, these same landscapes are threatened by wildfires, insects and disease. Our ability to manage for these changes is limited by shrinking budgets, a declining forest products industry and volatile energy prices. Our current policy efforts should link forest health improvements and forest industry vitality to developing more efficient forest product manufacturing and encouraging renewable...
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
This report describes the successes achieved through projects authorized under the legislation. Where possible, work commenced on projects at the onset of 2009; others were not initiated until later in the spring when weather conditions were favorable enough to conduct operations. Also, some of the recipients were notified later in May 2009, so work is still occurring. As of July 1, 2010, approximately 50 percent of the total project work was completed....
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
In 2009, the Colorado General Assembly passed legislation titled the Colorado Healthy Forests and Vibrant Communities Act (HB09-1199), which increases efforts to address wildfire risk, provides resources to the Colorado State Forest Service to augment its technical outreach capabilities, and provides loans and grants for market-based and forest treatment solutions to reduce wildfire risk.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
The Colorado State Forest Service has designed this plan to provide a road map for improving forest health across Colorado in the coming decade. Major forest types in Colorado can be categorized by the dominant overstory vegetation; these include conifer-hardwood, conifer, mixed conifer, hardwood (primarily aspen), lodgepole pine, oak shrubland, piñon-juniper, ponderosa pine, riparian and spruce-fir.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
This Plan is designed to be a guiding document that provides clear direction at a high level, which is easy to understand and used regularly internally and externally. This Strategic Plan should be used in conjunction with other internal planning processes that focus on a tactical level to ensure actions taken by the CSFS are aligned with our Vision and have a positive impact on achieving the Strategic Goals that support our Mission.