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For The Forest

Best Practices Symposium

Place-Based Strategies: Pine Beetles and Forest Health
- A Best Practices Symposium -

Highlights Video:

(Highlights, 15minutes)

Video and Photo's courtesy: ColoradoDivision of Wildlife, EcoFlight, Grassroots TV, & JonathanKloberdanz.

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Learn about Mountain Pine Beetle and Forest Health Strategies used across the West. The symposium will feature an exchange of ideas and best practices by representatives from western communities working on mountain pine beetle mitigation efforts and wildfire reduction projects. Participants will explore what works and what doesn't in community forests and the wildland/urban interface. Explore innovative ideas from Canadian communities such as Merritt, BC and Grand Prairie, AB, along with several Colorado towns (view presenter list).

Who Should Attend? Everyone is welcome. The symposium is free and open to the public (register now). The audience will include representatives from other towns & counties facing forest health challenges, as well as a wide variety of civic leaders, forest experts, landowners and ordinary citizens.

Presenters Speakers include Colorado Governor Bill Ritter, USFS Rocky Mountain Regional Forester Rick Cables, Dr. Allan Carroll of the University of British Columbia and Dr. Nancy Gillette with the Preliminary Study Results from the Smuggler Mountain Open Space Project. In addition, leaders from communities across the West will be presenting their own experience with forest health issues.

Click on the links below for further information:

Presenter List

Symposium Schedule

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