Task Force Report to the Governor
Presentation from Previous Meetings:
- Protecting Your Home from Wildfire (Formerly CSU Fact Sheet 6.302) - August 19 Colorado State Forest Service
- WUI Regulatory Assessment - August 16 Raymond Bizal
- National Flood Insurance Program - July 29, 2013 Karen Amrhein
- Human Dimensions of Wildfire Research in Colorado
- WUI Interface Mitigation - Colorado Springs Ordinance
- Ignition Resistant Construction Design Manual
- Your Wildfire Defensible Space
- Homeowner's Insurance - Before and After HB 13-1225
- Summary of Draft Recommendations May 15, 2013 mtg. (Map as a Webpage) | (Word Document)
- Executive Order - Summary Outline
- Presentations (4-19-2013): Forest Health and WUI | Insurance
- Facilitator notes 2-28-13 mtg
- Issue Development Map: (As webpage) | (PDF Document)
Articles and Studies:
- Feds developing 'Richter' scale for wildfires
- Into the Wildfire
- Wildfires - Record-smashing Rim fire spurs calls for more prescribed burns
- Wildfires - Blazes to double in size and duration by 2050 -- study
- Research - Wildfires projected to worsen with climate change
- The Yosemite Inferno in the Context of Forest Policy, Ecology and Climate Change
- Proposal: Fee for CO residents in fire prone areas
- Insurers brace for higher rates of property damage as more Americans move to wildfire-prone areas
- Gov. Hickenlooper announces grants for wildfire mitigation
- Proposed Legislation to Allow FEMA to Proactively Work to Reduce Wildfire Risks
- Wildfire Mitigation Law in the Mountain States: A Comparative Assessment
- Fourmile Canyon Fire - Final Report and Assessment
- Summary of Boulder County Land Use WUI Building Codes and the Fourmile Canyon Fire
- Consolidated - LInks to Wildfire Articles June 27 through July 22, 2013
- Consolidated - Wildfire Articles June 27 through July 22, 2013
- Forest firefighters stressed by warming and budget cuts -- briefing
- Fighting Fire Before It Starts
- After big Colorado burns, homeowners, communities try to fire-proof
- Wildfires Will Worsen, And Further Strain The Forest Service
- Wildfire - Vail, Colorado
- Warming, homebuilding patterns means fires could eat entire Forest Service budget
- Comparative analysis of WUI mitigation regulation- AZ, CA, CO, OR, NM, NV, UT
- Lessons and questions left to smolder in the wake of massive suburban forest fire
- A Review and Assessment of Regulatory and Planning Tools
- Federal wildfire budgets need a makeover
- At the boundary between wilderness and civilization, the danger increases
- Wildfire Risk Management ...Who Pays?
- The Rising Cost of Wildfire Protection
- In Colorado, wildfires may drive up costs of living in paradise