Wildfire Resilience at the Landscape Scale

Aspen Wildfire Foundation funds cross-boundary, landscape scale projects in and around Aspen. We are working with local partners each year on planning and executing prescribed fires and bark beetle mitigation to improve the health and resilience of local ecosystems.

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Landscape Spotlight: Cross-Boundary Fuel Break

Aspen Fire, the BLM, Pitkin County Open Space and Trails, and private partners are working together to demonstrate the wonderful possibilities that…

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Landscape Spotlight: Prescribed Fires 2022 & 2023

With the help of many local partners, AFPD helped with the 750-acre Collins Creek Prescribed Burn on April 30, 2023, as well as the 900-acre Hunter…

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Landscape Spotlight: Bark Beetle Treatment

Fires in beetle-killed areas are typically more severe, difficult to revegetate, and can experience high erosion. That's why, starting in 2022, AFPD…

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