The Boulder Watershed Collective, in collaboration with their partners, welcomes you to their first educational wildfire panel. September 24th from 4:00-6:00pm (MST).

Colorado’s Front Range, like many areas in the West, is grappling with the increase of high severity wildfires and their costly side effects on downstream water resources. Wildfire has the potential to affect both water quality and water quantity, and approximately 80 percent of the U.S.’s freshwater resource originates on forested land (USGS, ND). With forests and water so intimately intertwined, what are the downstream impacts on water resources with large-scale wildfire? In this panel you will learn how forests are managed to protect drinking water sources, how climate change is affecting drought and wildfire events and some of the successes and challenges with associated with managing forests and source water areas.

The panel will feature four 15-minute presentations from a variety of forest and water resource industry experts who each have unique experience and perspectives managing these critical resources. A question and answer session will follow the presentations.

Featured Speakers include:

• Kate Dunlap: Source Water Quality Program Manager at City of Boulder

• Gretel Follingstad: University of Colorado Boulder MENV

• Jason Lawson: Southwest Project Manager for the Rocky Mountain Restoration Initiative

• Keith Stagg: Principal at Bluestem Conservation Management

This event is in collaboration with:

University of Colorado Boulder Masters of the Environment,
The Center for Sustainable Landscapes and Communities
and the Boulder Watershed Collective.

Join this panel on Zoom using the following link: https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/96950220912