The Front Range Fuels Treatment Partnership - A Multi-Agency Response to a Growing Problem

"The Front Range of Colorado includes a complex and potentially explosive combination of hazardous forest fuel conditions and the urban-wildland interface. The 2002 wildfire season was the most damaging and costly in Colorados history. The Hayman Fire alone burned 139,000 acres of the front range including many interface acres.

The forested acres are increasing in fuel densities while more and more people move into the interface. Federal, State and local governments have acknowledged this ever increasing problem and have formed the Front Range Fuels Treatment Partnership to reduce wildland fire risk through sustained fuels treatment along Colorados front range.

The challenges are many and the logistics are complicated but there is great interest by the agencies, governments and many other stakeholders to make the partnership successful. A total of 510,000 acres need to be treated over the next decade, a goal that will take inter-agency cooperation, new technology, focused energy and funding, and buy-in from every level of government.

The poster will explain who makes up the partnership, how it is organized, our objectives, our strategies, and our successes to date." [Abstract from Conference Program and Book of Abstracts]

[Concurrent Session I-B: Fire I]

[Presented at "Emerging Issues Along Urban/Rural Interfaces: Linking Science and Society", a conference held March 13-16, 2005 in Atlanta, GA (US)]