On January 30, 2024, water partners from across Colorado gathered at Aurora’s Hyatt Regency to celebrate a historic milestone: 50 years of the Instream Flow Program. This critical program, managed by the CWCB, secures instream flow water rights to protect and preserve the natural environment of streams and lakes. Read more.
The Urban Landscape Conservation Task Force final report addresses core questions aimed at how to reduce water-intensive turf, define nonfunctional turf, and address how transformative landscape change can enhance community resilience, ecosystem services, and water security.
Northern Colorado Fireshed Collaborative is partnering to make our forests more resilient, our communities safer, and keep our water supplies reliable. Northern Colorado Fireshed Collaborative partners work strategically across land ownerships to increase the scale and pace of forest restoration by bringing fire back into our watershed management toolbox. View the full video here.
Burnt: a tale of three fires investigates how embracing wildfire can restore resiliency and create new cultural connections between a landscape and its inhabitants. It draws from the designer’s childhood fascination of landscape and fire and takes inspiration from a Dutch attitude towards another natural threat: water. View the recording here.
Living with Fire podcast. This podcasts features perspectives and stories from land managers, scientists, fire professionals and community members about the history of fire, how fire is currently managed in the landscape and the role that humans play in living more safely with wildfire. Some episodes to highlight are:
Ep. 14: Wildfire & the Whole Community
Ep. 11: Trauma-Informed Communication about Wildfire.