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Cheley Camps getting ahead of future wildfires
EP Trail Gazette
Water supply may be one of the biggest things impacted by wildfires that no one immediately thinks of. Rain that falls on a scorched landscape carries tons...

Healthy Forest program offers forest fire mitigation funding for private landowners
Coloradoan
About half of the state's 5.7 million people live in wildfire-prone areas near forests, and private landowners own about 7 million acres of...

Partnering with the Land: SMC’s Conservation Forestry Project and the Cameron Peak Fire
Drala Mountain Center
To the untrained eye, the ponderosa forests of Drala Mountain Center have never been anything less than pristine wonderlands. But to...

Special Report: Inside the toxic link between Colorado’s wildfires and its water
Water Education Colorado
Raging wildfires, like the massive burn that almost consumed Glenwood Springs, are easy to see. But what is rarely seen is the devastation to the...
Thinning The Forest Saved Shambhala From Colorado's Largest Wildfire. It Offers Lessons For Other At-Risk Places
KUNC
What surprises Michael Gayner the most is what didn't burn. When the Cameron Peak Fire raged through the Shambhala Mountain Center...