An Allenspark Forest Steward's Suggested Reading List

Watersheds & Wildfire

Wildfire and Watersheds
Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry. (PDF: 763KB)

Critical Community Watershed Wildfire Protection Plans (CWP)²
Communities and municipalities tend not to lay claim to the larger watershed(s) that provide surface water for their residents. Critical Community Watershed Wildfire Protection Plans (CWP)² builds upon and broadens the CWPP concept to incorporate these critical watersheds. (DOC: 81KB)

SPLATS, SPOTS, and the Future of Fuels Treatment
Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center; National Advanced Fire and Resource Institute. (HTML)

SPOTS
Using a Strategic Placement of TreatmentS to maximize the effectiveness of fuel and vegetation management with integrated landscape design. (HTML)

Landscape-Level Strategies for Forest Fuel Management
A review of past and current approaches to managing fuels on a landscape basis and, based on a synthesis of many of these approaches, proposes an outline for a potential fuel-management strategy. (PDF: 399KB)

Front Range Watershed Protection Data Refinement Sub-Work Group
The purpose of the Front Range Watershed Protection Data Refinement Sub-Work Group is to adapt and refine the methods used by the Pinchot Institute to identify critical watersheds that supply municipal water in ten Front Range counties of Colorado, determine if additional information is needed and create a template for watershed assessments for watersheds within the Front Range Fuels Treatment Partnership Area. (DOC: 30KB)

JW Associates Proposal
A proposal to provide assistance in development of the Front Range Watershed Protection Data Refinement Working Group’s technical approach to watershed assessments. (PDF: 60KB)

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