Building Bridges - Northwest Colorado Council of Governments

Their objective is to develop and coordinate a process where elected officials, community leaders, and federal land and resource decision level personnel can share information and collaborate with each other.

Coalition for the Upper South Platte

Protects a watershed that covers approximately 2,600 square miles of central Colorado

Culebra Range Community Coalition

Works to restore forest health, improve wildlife habitat, reduce risk of unnatural fire, and facilitate small diameter timber based businesses.

Fort Lewis College Office of Community Service

Assists local communities, students, and faculty to improve academic, social, and ecological well-being of the Four Corners region.

Front Range Fuels Treatment Partnership

Serves to enhance community sustainability and restore fire-adapted ecosystems through identification, prioritization and rapid implementation of hazardous fuels treatment projects in the Front Range of Colorado.

Lake County Forest Project
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Provides community understanding of the surrounding forest, to create a Community Wildfire Protection Plan, and to sustain collaborative effort through econonmic development of forest products.

North Park Natural Resources Community Group
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Works for the wise utilization of natural resources while creating and sustaining healthy lands and communities and providing opportunities for the people of Jackson County.

Northwest Colorado Stewardship

Seeks to engage a wide diversity of local interests in working together to find solutions to previously intractable natural resource management issues.

Ponderosa Pine Partnership

Improving the condition of ecosystems, and sustaining valuable, small, rural, timber industries necessary for forest restoration.

Public Lands Partnership

Strives to be a catalyst, promoting public education and awareness of economic and environmental issues related to public lands, and to provide a local forum for airing different sides of natural resource issues.

Natural Resource Groups and Agencies Working with CFRI

Bureau of Land Management

The BLM manages 264 million acres of public land across the United States, and provides fire protection on 388 million acres of public and state land.

Colorado State Forest Service

The mission of the Colorado State Forest Service is to provide for the stewardship of forest resources and to reduce related risks to life, property and the environment for the benefit of present and future generations.

Ecological Restoration Institute, Northern Arizona University

This institute combines academic research with practical ecological restoration.

New Mexico Forest and Watershed Restoration Institute

On October 5, 2004 President Bush signed into law the Southwest Forest Health and Wildfire Prevention Act, identifying New Mexico Highlands University as one of the sites of a southwest forest restoration institute.

The Nature Conservancy

The Nature Conservancy is the leading conservation organization working to protect the most ecologically important lands and waters around the world for nature and people.

US Fish and Wildlife Service

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has been using and managing fire safely and cost-effectively since the 1930's, leading to lands being in healthier ecological condition overall, with lower risk of catastrophic fire.

US Forest Service

Established in 1905, the Forest Service is an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The Forest Service manages public lands in national forests and grasslands.

USFS Rocky Mountain Research Station

An organization of dedicated people advancing science and supporting natural resource management through research and development.