Upcoming Chaffee County wildfire meetings seen as critical for “a county that lives with fire”

Envision Chaffee County is hosting a pair of Community Wildfire Readiness meetings October 2 and 3. These sessions will provide the opportunity to view and comment on computer-generated GIS maps that depict fire risk levels across the county and model where forest treatments will be most effective and economical. The risk modeling was developed as a pilot project by the Colorado Forest Restoration Institute at CSU in conjunction with development of our Community Wildfire Protection Plan.

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