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Roundtable
Mission of the Front Range Roundtable
To serve as a focal point for diverse stakeholder input into the Partnership's efforts to reduce wildland fire risks through sustained fuels treatment along the Colorado Front Range.
Roundtable Contacts
Core team contact information (pdf 29 K)
Organizations Represented
A list of organizations that participate in the Front Range Roundtable (pdf 39 K)
New 2009 Reports from the Roundtable
Joint Ecology Working Group (Front Range Roundtable - Colorado Bark Beetle Cooperative) Summaries (pdf 170 K)
The Status of Our Scientific Understanding of Lodgepole Pine and Mountain Pine Beetles - A Focus on Forest Ecology and Fire Behavior (pdf 809 K) - A synthesis of our current knowledge about the effects of the mountain pine beetle epidemic on lodgepole pine forests and fire behavior, with a geographic focus on Colorado and southern Wyoming.
Will the Mountain Pine Beetle Epidemic Spread from Lodgepole Pine into Ponderosa Pine along the Northern Front Range Counties of Colorado? (pdf 928 K) - The report was prepared by Jeff Witcosky, USFS Forest Health Management, for the Joint Ecology Working Group. It addresses one of the group's key issues of focus in their efforts.
Roundtable & Front Range Counties
In 2007, the Front Range Roundtable met individually with the 10 Front Range Counties -- Boulder, Clear Creek, Douglas, El Paso, Gilpin, Grand, Jefferson, Larimer, Park, Teller -- to connect the Roundtable's forest health and wildfire risk reduction efforts with work being done at the county level, and to assess county needs for support.
2008 Workshop Series for Counties - Forest health and wildfire risk mitigation workshops will be held for County Commissioners and staff in 2008 and will be sponsored by the Roundtable. The schedule and content of each workshop will be tailored to meet the needs of attendees.
Thank you Governor's Energy Office for sponsoring the
Biomass - Heating, Utilization & Marketing workshop
held on May 8!
Northern Front Range Mountain Pine Beetle Working Group
The Northern Front Range Mountain Pine Beetle Working Group consists of local government agencies coordinating efforts in the midst of the mountain pine beetle (MPB) epidemic moving to Colorado’s Front Range. The organization is working closely with the Front Range Roundtable to utilize the most current information available. One of the primary purposes of the working group is to provide a centralized source for mountain pine beetle-related information to the public.
Roundtable News
11-02-09 - Fort Collins, Colo. - Colorado State Forest Service Announces Recipients of Economic Stimulus Funds. The Colorado State Forest Service is awarding stimulus funds to 15 organizations and businesses that will create or retain more than 200 forestry-related jobs in Colorado between now and Sept. 30, 2011.
10-19-09 - Fort Collins, Colo. - Grant Funds Available for Community Forest Restoration and Watershed Protection Projects. All grant applications are due by 4 p.m., Dec. 2, and awards will be announced in January 2010.
08-31-09 - Colorado State Forest Service Receives $10.7 Million in Stimulus Funds to solicit proposals that will create and retain forestry-related jobs in Colorado.
06-17-09 - Fort Collins, Colo. - Colorado State University Cuts Greenhouse Gas Emissions with Woody Biomass Boiler. Colorado State University has partnered with the Colorado State Forest Service to install a biomass boiler heating plant on the Foothills Campus to reduce the university's greenhouse gas emissions and cut energy costs.
01-16-09 - US Forest Service and Colorado State Forest Service Release Results of the Annual Forest Health Aerial Survey that reveal three insect and disease conditions of concern on forested lands.
Woody Biomass Utilization Woody biomass utilization success stories in Colorado and across the country can be found at the U.S. Healthy Forests and Rangelands website In June 2006, the Colorado Wood Utilization and Marketing Program (CO Wood) was asked by the Front Range Fuels Treatment Partnership to report on current and proposed CO Wood program delivery and activities that directly support the FRFTP Roundtable recommendations. |
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Photo: Wood chips from forest treatments heat the new Boulder County Open Space facilities in Longmont. (Photo by Dan Bihn) |
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Brian McPeek, Mike Babler and The Nature Conservancy receive the 2006 Teammate of the Year Award from the Colorado State Forest Service for their work on the FRFTP Roundtable. More . . . (pdf 9 K) |
Roundtable Meeting Minutes
January 8, 2010 Agenda (pdf 121 KB)
September 18, 2009 (pdf 2.1 MB)
May 22, 2009 (pdf 76 K)
October 9, 2008 (pdf 22 K)
July 17, 2008 (pdf 43 K)
May 1, 2008 (pdf 47 K)
January 24, 2008 (pdf 45 K)
Roundtable 2008 Reports/Findings
Front Range Roundtable Annual Progress Report August 2008 - The Front Range Roundtable has kicked its implementation into high gear this year, and the last twelve months have been full of accomplishments. (pdf 253 K)
May 2008 Quarterly Progress Report (pdf 44 K)
February 2008 Quarterly Progress Report (pdf 45 K)
Roundtable 2007 and Earlier Reports/Findings
Living with Fire: Protecting Communities and Restoring Forests - The Front Range Roundtable 2006-2007 Annual Report. (pdf 1.5 MB)
Living with Fire: Protecting Communities and Restoring Forests: Findings and Recommendations of the Front Range Roundtable. May 2006. (pdf 4.4 MB)
Recommendations of the Front Range Fuels Treatment Partnership Roundtable for Protecting Communities and Restoring Forests. May 2006. (pdf 399 K)
Recommended Actions for Organizations. This is a PowerPoint presentation. Press your left mouse button to advance to the next slides. (ppt 285 K)
Roundtable Fact Sheet - creating a long-term vision to protect communities and restore forest health. (pdf 62 K)
Roundtable Fire Fact Sheet - wildfire facts compiled by the FRFTP Roundtable. (pdf 73 K)
Action Advisory Toolkit - Resources for the general public. (pdf 80 K)
Historical Fire Regimes in Ponderosa Pine Forests of the Colorado Front Range and Recommendations for Ecological Restoration and Fuels Management. (pdf 139 K)
Community Feedback on interim Roundtable findings. (pdf 51 K)
Economic Model Spreadsheet (xls 153 K)- This document can be used by land managers or Community Wildfire Protection Plan participants as a template for analyzing potential economic outcomes of various treatment scenarios. For help in using this model, please contact: info@behconsulting.com.