Deschutes Collaborative Forest Project

This is such a great visual for all that goes into community wildfire prevention and protection and all its intricacies! Protecting our communities takes a commitment from everyone 💪

Thanks for this graphic Community Planning Assistance for Wildfire (CPAW) and 🙏🔥

Learn more 👇👇
https://cpaw.headwaterseconomics.org/

“There is overwhelming evidence that reducing tree density and returning low severity fire to dry mixed conifer forests reduces the severity of subsequent wildfires”- Kimberley Davis, Research Ecologist at the USDA Forest Service’s Rocky Mountain Research Station.

Read the whole article by 👇 and on our blog 🔗 in our bio.
https://deschutescollaborative.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/sycu5_2024_06_burning_questions.pdf

FEATURED SCIENTISTS:
Kimberley T. Davis is a Research Ecologist for the Rocky Mountain Research Station in the Fire, Fuel, and Smoke Science Program who zeroes in on the ways forest resilience and management are impacted by dynamic shifts in climate and fire regimes.

Jamie Peeler is a Landscape Ecologist and post-doctoral fellow at the University of Montana’s Department of Ecosystem and Conservation Sciences Paleoecology and Fire Ecology Lab.

Joseph Fargione is the Science Director, North America for The Nature Conservancy.

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🔥 Reminder that prescribed fire is the best tool we have in preventing catastrophic wildfire from destroying our towns, trails and favorite spots in the forest.

🚒 Prescribed fire is extremely well managed. Specialists on site are constantly monitoring and making sure there is as little smoke impact to town as possible.

🌲 Our dry ponderosa forest needs low intensity fire like prescribed fire to thrive! This helps "clean up" the forest floor of excess fuels (that feed wildfire!) and helps the whole forest ecosystem get back to historic norms.

💨 A little smoke now is worth it in the long run! Sign up for alerts and reminders: text COFIRE to 888-777 to get all the info, locations and more on all things prescribed fire this season.