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\nCommunities are on the frontlines of wildfire exposure and function as laboratories of innovative approaches for reducing risk. The CoNIFER project investigates the extent to which community wildfire protection planning affects how wildfire risk management stakeholders adapt the approaches they take to mitigate wildfire threats from local to regional scales.<\/p>\n
How these different groups come together to plan for and carry out actions contributes to how successful these efforts are at reducing risks on the ground. Some groups may work together well to share expertise and resources while others may be characterized by competition and find it challenging to develop a shared way forward. While these differences have real and meaningful implications for the success of efforts to reduce wildfire risk, there is limited understanding of how stakeholder interactions affect learning or success in working together.<\/p>\n
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Leadership Team<\/strong><\/p>\n Jonathan Salerno<\/a> – Colorado State University<\/p>\n Matthew Hamilton<\/a> – Ohio State University\u200b<\/p>\n Antony Cheng<\/a> – Colorado State University\u200b<\/p>\n Eric Toman<\/a> – Colorado State University\u200b<\/p>\n A. Paige Fischer<\/a> – University of Michigan\u200b<\/p>\n Max Nielsen-Pincus<\/a> – Portland State University<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Post-Doctoral Fellows<\/strong><\/p>\n Maya Daurio – Colorado State University 2025 – present<\/p>\n Jennifer Brousseau – Colorado State University 2023-2024<\/p>\n Federico Holm – Colorado State University 2022-2023<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Advisory Group<\/strong><\/p>\n \u200b\u200bDaniel Beveridge – Colorado State Forest Service<\/p>\n Patty Champ – US Forest Service<\/p>\n Gloria Edwards – Southern Rockies Fire Science Network\u200b<\/p>\n Daniel Godwin – US Forest Service<\/p>\n Rebecca Samulski – Fire Adapted Colorado <\/p>\n John Sanderson – Colorado State University, Center for Collaborative Conservation\u200b<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t 1) Improve understanding of how social interactions affect collaborative decision-making in CWPPs.<\/p>\n 2) Identify conditions that shape implementation of risk mitigation activities proposed in CWPPs, especially activities that span administrative boundaries or extend over large spatial scales.<\/p>\n 3) Evaluate factors that affect the efficiency of risk mitigation at regional scales, and particularly the reduction of disparities in resources, capacities, and hazardous conditions among communities.<\/p>\n 4) Engage and inform local, state, and national decision-makers to co-produce policy-relevant insights from the research.<\/p>\n Our research aims to improve the understanding of wildfire risk mitigation planning and implementation by studying stakeholders and their relationships in Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPPs) in Colorado. Focusing on CWPPs along with related wildfire collaborative planning processes will allow us to study how these processes are formed, play out over time, and ultimately contribute to risk mitigation.<\/p>\n We have completed document analysis of Colorado CWPPs and completed about 150 interviews during the Spring and Summer of 2022.<\/p>\n Associated Results & Materials:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n This research aims to better understand local capacity to mitigate vulnerability to wildfire in Colorado, USA.<\/p>\n Part 1 seeks\u00a0to explore spatial patterns of local capacity relative to wildfire risk across the state of Colorado, USA, with the aim of informing efforts to reduce vulnerability to wildfire.<\/p>\n Part 2 seeks to understand processes that enable communities to translate elements of capacity into wildfire mitigation outcomes through qualitative interviews.<\/p>\n Led by M.S. student, Karissa Courtney at CSU<\/em><\/p>\n Associated Results & Materials:<\/p>\n Community bulletin board for wildfire mitigation<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n We focus on the rules and norms in a population that can incentivize individuals to make decisions to prepare for wildfire and participate in collaborative governance, and how those institutions will persist or fail.<\/p>\n Associated Results & Materials:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Student Research Assistants<\/strong><\/p>\n Karissa Courtney, CSU<\/p>\n Ryan Filtz, CSU<\/p>\n Harrison Fried, OSU<\/p>\n Jordan Inskeep, OSU<\/p>\n Aidan Lyde, CSU<\/p>\n Clara Mosso, CSU<\/p>\n Emily Palsa, OSU<\/p>\n Emily Rabung, OSU<\/p>\n Hallie Stelzle, OSU<\/p>\n <\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Community Networks in Fire-Environment Resilience (CoNIFER) About the Project Communities are on the frontlines of wildfire exposure and function as laboratories of innovative approaches for reducing risk. 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Community Wildfire Protection Plans<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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Complex Systems & Risk Governance<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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