Plumtaw: A Future with FireFire is here to stay, or more accurately, fire has always been here. The landscape we call home evolved with flames. As humans, we have instead suppressed fire for decades. Forests and communities today are ill-prepared, resulting in some of the catastrophic wildfires that have captured our attention across the West. So what are we doing about it?
The story of the Plumtaw unfolds as positive, fortuitous interaction between people, forests, and fire. Our actions can make a difference. Motivated by this hopeful message, Moxiecran Media teamed up with the San Juan Headwaters Forest Health Partnership to produce Plumtaw: A Future With Fire. The film explores the perspectives of land managers and local landowners in one Southwest Colorado community. This film was also supported by a University of Colorado Environmental Journalism Water Desk grant. |
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Rising Generation of Forest StewardsThe need for wildfire mitigation in Colorado and throughout the West is immense. A single agency, organization or entity can take on this problem alone; it requires partnerships. The Colorado Youth Corp Association is able to bring much-needed capacity to these efforts while developing the next generation of land stewards.
The Colorado Strategic Wildfire Action Program (COSWAP), established through legislation in 2020, is a partnership between the CO Division of Natural Resources and the Youth Corp. This program supports mitigation projects in priority areas that protect life, property and infrastructure. Learn more about workforce development in wildland firefighting in this second video Moxiecran Media produced. |
Center for Snow & Avalanche StudiesThe Center for Snow & Avalanche Studies is a not-for-profit organization surrounded by rugged San Juan Mountains in Silverton, Colorado. CSAS serves the mountain science community and regional natural resource managers. They host and conduct interdisciplinary research and integrative 24/7/365 monitoring that captures weather, snowpack, radiation, soils, plant communities, and hydrologic signals of regional climate trends.
From its humble beginnings, and with crucial support from its peers, CSAS has built and demonstrated its capacity to contribute to American snow system science. These mountain systems are crucial to monitor since they serve as a bellwether for regional and global climate change. https://snowstudies.org/ |
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Painting Colorado Watersheds with Bob RossPeople love Colorado. Our iconic mountains, rivers, minerals, plains, communities, forests, snow, wildlife, and wilderness have drawn people by the millions to our Centennial state. Our population has ballooned from 1 million in 1930 to over 5 million today, and could nearly double by 2060. Sustaining this growth requires water. With this projected pace of growth, how do we preserve what we love about our state?
Follow along with Bob Ross on this 5 minute painting journey through the complexities of Colorado's watersheds and learn more about our changing landscape. https://www.colorado.gov/cowaterplan |