“CREATING RESILIENT COMMUNITIES WITHIN CHANGING FORESTS” Presented by the Colorado Bark Beetle Cooperative 9:30 – 3:30, Friday, October 24, 2014 The Village At Breckenridge, Forest Room 9:30 – 9:45 W elcom e 9:45 – 10:30 “The Value of Collaboration” – K eynote P anel/ Moderated by Dr. Tony Cheng, Colorado State University (CSU) Associate Professor in Forest Policy and Colorado Forest Restoration Institute Director • Bill Bass, United States Forest Service (USFS) Region 2 Acting Deputy Forester • Greg Shoop, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Colorado Associate State Director • Mike Lester, Colorado State Forest Service (CSFS) Forester & Director 10:30-11:00 Forest Hazards P resentation 11:00 – 11:15 Break 11:15 – 11:40 USFS Accom plishm ents in I m pacted Forests – USFS Accom plishm ents on the Arapaho & Roosevelt, M edicine Bow -Routt, and W hite River National Forests for treatm ents in the w ake of the bark -beetle epidem ic including partner contribution Sloan Shoemaker, CBBC Chair/Executive Director Wilderness Workshop, Carbondale, CO Dr. Tony Cheng Jan Burke, USFS Forest Silviculturist and Timber Program Manager 11:40 – Noon CSFS Accom plishm ents and Colorado W ildfire Risk Assessm ent P ortal overview Mike Lester Noon – 12:20 M aking Com m unities Resilient to Forest Disturbance 12:20 – 1:00 Lunch 1:00 – 1:30 Case Study/ Lessons Learned from High P ark Fire & P oudre Flooding Brad Piehl, CBBC Vice Chair/Forest Hydrologist, JW Associates Please take some time to browse the mapping information on the walls – “Forest Management Treatments in the CBBC Area” Lisa Voytko, former Ft. Collins Water Department Manager 1:30 – 2:15 Com ponents of Resilience – P rivate and Local Governm ent R oles • • • 1:30 - 1:45 Dan Gibbs, Summit County Commissioner/Summit County Wildfire Council - Role of Local Government in Community Resilience 1:45 - 2:00 Dan Schroder, Summit County CSU Extension Director - Private Sector Roles 2:00 - 2:15 Q & A 2:15 – 2:30 Break 2:30 – 2:45 P artnering w ith the W ood I ndustry 2:45 – 3:30 Conclusion – W hat did w e get right? W hat did w e m iss? W hat do you need from the CBB C going forw ard? Rob Davis, Forest Energy Corporation Sloan Shoemaker “THANK YOU” TO THE NATI ON AL FOR EST FOUNDATI ON AN D THE VI LLAGE AT BR ECK ENR I DGE (VAI L R ESOR TS) FOR SP ONSOR I NG THI S EVENT