Reports

This section contains reports that were published by CFRI..

Historical Range of Variability

• Historical Forest Structure on the Uncompahgre Plateau: Informing restoration prescriptions for mountainside stewardship(pdf)
  
  
• Historical and Modern Disturbance Regimes: Stand Structures, and Landscape Dynamics in Piñon-Juniper Vegetation of the Western US (pdf)
  
  
• Historical Range of Variability for Forest Vegetation of the Grand Mesa National Forest, Colorado) (pdf) Note: this is a large pdf file - 7.6 MB. Download time depends on the speed of your Internet connection.
  
  
• The Forests of Southwestern Colorado and Northwestern New Mexico: How the Past and Present Inform Our Choices for the Future by William H. Romme, M. Lisa Floyd, David Hanna (pdf)
  
  
• The Past and Future of Colorado's Forests: Connecting People and Ecology by Dan Binkley and Sally L. Duncan
  
  
• Historical Fire Regimes in Ponderosa Pine Forests of the Colorado Front Range and Recommendations for Ecological Restoration and Fuels Management (pdf)

Insect and Disease

• Recent Forest Insect Outbreaks and Fire Risk in Colorado Forests: A Brief Synthesis of Relevant Research (pdf 1 MB), by Bill Romme, Jessica Clement, Jeff Hicke, Dominik Kulakowski, Lee MacDonald, Tania Schoennagel, and Tom Veblen.
  
  *See Clarification Statement regarding the connection between bark beetle outbreaks and climate change.

Other Reports

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