Resources
Learn more about wildfire behavior, management, recovery efforts and more, plus explore the ways we can all contribute to better fire outcomes.
This map shows the fire progression of the East Troublesome Fire between October 21 to 23, 2020, and the size of the nearby Cameron Peak Fire on October 22, 2020. The East Troublesome Fire was first reported on October 14, 2020, and between October 21 to 23, grew from 19,000 acres to over 170,000 acres and crossed the Continental Divide. The East Troublesome Fire burned a total of 193,812 acres, mostly on public lands. The Cameron Peak Fire was first reported on August 13, 2020, and grew steadily over the following three months and burned a total of 208,913 acres and became the largest wildfire in Colorado history. Credit: Fire Safety Journal, Volume 142, January 2024, 104015.
Community Connectors
We would like to acknowledge the following organizations for connecting us to helpful people and information to develop United by Fire.
COCO (Coalitions and Collaboratives) fosters a variety of collaborative conservation programs. It seeks to increase capacity across the West to help communities respond and recover from wildfires, and strengthen post-fire response in order to reduce impacts to communities and ecosystems.
The After the Flames Conference brings together hundreds of researchers, practitioners, and community members responding to the post-fire landscape. It offers a wide range of resources for Colorado wildfire recovery.
Get current information from the United States Forest Service about the ongoing USFS 2020 fire recovery efforts.
The Center for Collaborative Conservation at Colorado State University’s Warner College of Natural Resources informs, promotes, and supports collaboration on tough conservation issues across Colorado, the American West, and the world.
The Colorado Forest Restoration Institute is a science-based outreach and engagement organization hosted by the Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship and the Warner College of Natural Resources at Colorado State University.
The Coalition for the Poudre Watershed improves and maintains the ecological health of the Poudre River Watershed through community collaboration.
The Watershed Center protects and restores watersheds for people and the environment using a collaborative and science-based approach.
