COLORADO

Multiple Fire Restoration

Project focuses on the reforestation of three wildfires in Colorado – the Spring Creek fire near La Veta, the Troublesome Fire in Grand County, and the Cameron Peak Fire near Fort Collins. In total, these fires consumed over 200,000 hectares of forests in Colorado.

Start Date:  August 7, 2023

Number Of Trees: 300,000

Our planting partners are working on a large-scale reforestation effort to address restoration of three of the largest forest fires in the history of Colorado – the Spring Creek Fire, the Troublesome Fire, and the Cameron Peak Fire. Our project is already the largest post-fire reforestation effort in Colorado and this portion of the project will help to increase these efforts by a significant degree. This is part of a larger initiative to replant 2 million trees in Colorado that were lost during recent fires (2018 to 2021) making this the largest conservation-based reforestation effort in the history of Colorado.  As a result of high stand densities, a large amount of fuel-loading due to severe pine tree mortality from bark beetles, and extremely arid conditions, the State of Colorado experienced its three largest fires in the past four years totaling more than 200,000 hectares consumed. Loss of trees and associated biodiversity, loss of carbon sequestered in trees and soil, and massive erosion in forests and riparian areas have resulted from this fire. This project will provide much needed relief to improve the currently degraded state of these forests.

This project will also involve indigenous communities, ordering seedlings from Apache Nation Nurseries in New Mexico and Arizona.

Tree Species

Ponderosa Pine
Limber Pine
Lodgepole Pine
Colorado Blue Spruce
Engelmann’s SpruceDouglas Fir

Planting program information with usage permission provided by One Tree Planted