and it is vital for renewing forests and plant life and supporting diverse wildlife habitats and healthy watersheds. However, increasingly large and severe fires threaten these natural and community resources. Achieving CCFC’s mission of increased landscape, watershed, and community resilience requires integrating diverse approaches such as mechanical and manual treatments and prescribed fire. It also requires working closely with residents, agencies, and diverse partners to co-create priorities and develop cross-jurisdictional pre-fire plans that support ecosystem health as well as community resilience.

Expanding strategic landscape-scale wildfire mitigation demands collaboration among diverse individuals, organizations, and agencies, ensuring the right work is done in the right places at the right scale.

This call to action was delivered by the U.S. Forest Service through their 2022 Wildfire Crisis Strategy, (WCS) a 10-year strategy to address the wildfire crisis in the places where it poses the most immediate threats to communities, like the Colorado Front Range WCS Priority Landscape. Together the CCFC and the Northern Colorado Fireshed Collaborative represent landscape-scale collaboration across the full extent of the Colorado Front Range Priority Landscape. 

Working to bridge the gap between federal and private land management, the CCFC strives to increase cross-boundary collaboration across the Pike National Forest and Jefferson, Douglas, El Paso, Teller, and Park counties. This geography encompasses multiple land types, jurisdictions, and land managers who work on private, municipal, county, and federal public lands, including the three ranger districts of the Pike National Forest: South Park, South Platte, and Pikes Peak.