Colorado Bark Beetle Cooperative
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The Colorado Bark Beetle Cooperative (CBBC) is a place-based collaborative to address the environmental, social and economic impacts of bark Beetles on high altitude forests. The steering committee is comprised of federal, state, and local government representatives and representatives of utility and water providers, wood products industry, conservation and public interest groups.
CBBC Mapping Exercise
2009 Maps
- Treatable Acres Analysis
- Treatable Acres Analysis with Mountain Pine Beetle 2008
- Base Ownership
- CWPP Map
- High Stewardship Potential
- Infrastructure
- Mountain Pine Beetle Outbreak 2008
- Projects & Priorities
- Projects & Priorities - 2007 Priorities
- Eagle County: Projects & Priorities / Treatable Acres
- Garfield County: Projects & Priorities / Treatable Acres
- Grand County: Projects & Priorities / Treatable Acres
- Jackson County: Projects & Priorities / Treatable Acres
- Lake County: Projects & Priorities / Treatable Acres
- Park County: Projects & Priorities / Treatable Acres
- Pitkin Creek County: Projects & Priorities / Treatable Acres
- Routt County: Projects & Priorities / Treatable Acres
- Summit County: Projects & Priorities / Treatable Acres
- Red Zone
- Watersheds
2007 Maps
- Clear Creek County: Projects & Priorities / Treatable Acres
- Eagle County: Projects & Priorites/ Treatable Acres
- Garfield County: Projects & Priorities / Treatable Acres
- Grand County: Projects & Priorities / Treatable Acres
- Jackson County: Projects & Priorities / Treatable Acres
- Lake County: Projects & Priorities / Treatable Acres
- Park County: Projects & Priorities / Treatable Acres
- Pitkin County: Projects & Priorities / Treatable Acres
- Routt County: Projects & Priorities / Treatable Acres
- Summit County: Projects & Priorities / Treatable Acres
News Stories & Press Releases
- USFS Press Release: National Forest Visitors Need to Watch Out for Falling Trees due to Mountain Pine Beetle Epidemic (9/4/09)
- Governor Ritter's Office Press Release: Colorado to Seek Comments on Revisions to Roadless Rule (7/13/09)
- NWCCOG Organizes Delegation of Local Officials to Travel to Washington, D.C. to Talk Pine Beetle Epidemic in Colorado
- Ritter Puts Revised Colorado Roadless Rule Back on the Drawing Board - The Colorado Independent (7/14/09)
- U.S.F.S. Press Release: Campers Know Before You Go! Dangers from Beetle Killed Trees Cause Campground Closures (7/2/09)
- Joint Oversight Hearing on "Mountain Pine Beetle: Strategies for Protecting the West": Testimony from CBBC Steering Committee members John Rich & Sloan Shoemaker/ Testimony of Rick Cables, Regional Forester, USFS Rocky Mountain Region (6/16/09)
- Global Warming Forces Forest Service to Reconsider Strategy - 5/28/09 - The News & Observer
- Homeowners Should Take Precautionary Measures if Using Pesticides for Mountain Pine Beetle Prevention This Spring
- Montana Seeks Advice from Colorado on Bark Beetles
- 2009 NWCCOG Washington, D.C. Trip
- Beetles and Collaboration
- USFS Develops Seven County Bark Beetle Mitigation Plan
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Presentations
- PBS Presentation: Red and Dead - Montana's Pine Beetle Infestation - Oct. 29, 2009
- Presentation: Colorado State Parks: Mountain Pine Beetle Mitigation Summary - September 18, 2009
- Merrill Kaufmann's paper "The status of our scientific understanding of lodgepole pine and mountain pine beetles -- A focus on forest ecology and fire behavior"http://www.csfs.colostate.edu/pages/documents/LPP_scientific-LS-www_000.pdf
- What is the Colorado Bark Beetle Cooperative
- Are the Beetles Winning?
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Posters & Videos
- Rocky Moutain Research Station Video: Preventing Home Ignitions
- Rocky Mountain Research Station Video: Protecting Your Home from Wildfire
- Poster on Western Spruce Budworm
- Poster on Spruce Bark Beetle
- Poster on Mountain Pine Beetle
- Poster on Dwarf Mistletoes
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Fact Sheets
- Joint Ecology Working Group - One Page Summaries on Lodgepole Pine Ecology and Fire Behavior
- Pine Beetle Pesticide Fact Sheet
- How To Become A Federal Government Contractor