In a months-long process, Colorado Forest Service Staff staff collaborated with dozens of experts, advocates, government agencies and other stakeholders to identify the state’s highest priorities for wildfire mitigation practices like thinning or prescribed burns and other projects to promote forest health. The result: a priority list of about 2.5 million acres, or 10% of Colorado forests, that are “in urgent need of treatment” to reduce wildfire risk, at an estimated cost of over $4.2 billion.
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