(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2020) Cheng, Antony S.
Because wildfires don’t stop at ownership boundaries, managers from governmental and
nongovernmental organizations in Northern Colorado are taking steps to pro-actively
“co-manage” wildfire risk through the Northern Colorado Fireshed Collaborative (NCFC).
For this research project, co-management refers to the collective actions taken by organizations to
share the resources, costs, and burdens associated with managing fire risk across a large landscape.
We examine factors that facilitated and limited wildfire risk co-management in a case study of the NCFC.
