Millions of dollars are coming to Colorado State University to study wildfire prevention, mitigation and recovery, after years of drought and record-setting wildfires across the state.
The $20 million grant will be split between CSU’s Colorado Forest Restoration Institute, Northern Arizona University and Highlands University in New Mexico, according to Brett Wolk, assistant director of the Institute.that Congress passed late last year, U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse’s office said in a release.
Wolk said the universities haven’t yet determined how the money will be split but it should fund a five-year project during which researchers will create a database of where forest management is happening overlapped with wildfire locations. “That sounds pretty simple but actually getting all that data from different agencies and jurisdictions is actually quite complex, and then putting it all on one map,” Wolk said.
That database should give land and wildfire managers, public officials, emergency responders and more, an idea of which treatments are effective, where they’ve worked and where management isn’t happening, Wolk said. Information like that can inform decisions of how best to stop or minimize fires in the future.
“Sometimes that means stopping a fire,” Wolk said. “But a lot of times it means changing a fire’s behavior so it burns less intensely.”
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