Cross-Boundary Landscape Restoration Workshop

Adapting to a Climate-altered West

May 2-4, 2023

Lory Student Center
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado

We would like to thank all our speakers, attendees, sponsors, and vendors for a successful event!

We were able to reach our workshop goals of sharing successes and lessons learned on cross-boundary collaborative efforts; exploring gaps and needs to better incorporate diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice in forestry, fuels, and fire research, and management; and co-developing recommendations, strategies, and resources for collaborative landscape-scale restoration projects.

Brief Workshop Summary

Below you can find resources from the workshop.

Presentation by Stephen Pyne, author of The Pyrocene
Monday, on the evening of May 1st, Open to the Public! 

WORKSHOP KEYNOTES:

Frank McCormick, Interim Director,
USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station

Susan Prichard, Research Scientist,
University of Washington

Chris Swanston, Climate Advisor and Director,
USDA Forest Service, Office of Sustainability and Climate

John Waconda, Indigenous Partnership Program Director,
The Nature Conservancy

Topics and sessions included:

  • Share successes and lessons learned on cross-boundary, collaborative efforts to restore and reimagine fire-adapted forest landscapes
  • Explore gaps and needs to better incorporate diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice in forestry, fuels, and fire research, and management
  • Co-develop recommendations, strategies, and resources for collaborative landscape-scale restoration projects

Who should attend? Government, tribal, and non-government foresters, fire managers, planners, biologists, line officers, regional and national program managers, forest researchers, conservation organizations, funding partners, forest operations companies, and other stakeholders interested in applying science and tools for all-lands collaborative forest landscape restoration.

 

Hosted by...

Expectations: We have the privilege of hosting our event at world class facilities on the campus of Colorado State University (CSU). Accordingly, this workshop will follow all rules, procedures, and guidelines established by CSU at the time of the workshop that apply to CSU employees, students, as well as visitors. We wanted to highlight a few items for participants to be aware of that will help ensure a successful workshop.

  • Current CSU health and COVID guidelines.  
  • The CSU Principles of Community help us express what our community stands for and expectations for one another.  
  • Pronouns will be displayed on all name badges. Here’s background why CSU encourages their use to demonstrate respect and honor people of all identities.  
  • The CSU land acknowledgement, which emphasizes the relationship between land and people, and between our histories and futures.
  • Potential weather closures, safety notifications, and other emergency alerts found here. 

Workshop Sponsors