Before Treatment

After Treatment
  • Even aged trees
  • Evenly-sized trees
  • Dense stands
  • Little to no understory plant community
  • Lacking wildlife habitat
  • Low resilience and resistance to disturbance events (pests, diseases, wildfire, weather)
  • Improved tree age-class diversity
  • Tree size-class diversity
  • Decreased stand density
  • Ground vegetation flourishes
  • Improved diversity of available wildlife habitat
  • Improved resilience and resistance to disturbance
  • Accessible and aesthetically pleasing
Scroll down to check out what our forest restoration projects looks like!
An example of the understory plant response we expect within 1-3 years post-treatment. The plant community seen here helps support native grazers and pollinators, as well as cattle.
photo: Fort Collins Conservation District
Aerial imagery of a treatment footprint from 6 months prior to treatment (left) and 1 year post-treatment (right). One of the goals of this project was to expand the meadow area to a more historic extent.
maps: Fort Collins Conservation District
Before (top) and After (bottom) a ponderosa pine restoration treatment on a cattle ranch in northern Larimer County.
photo: Fort Collins Conservation District
Before (left) and After (right) a ponderosa pine restoration treatment at Shambhala Mountain Center, near Red Feather Lakes, CO.
photo: Fort Collins Conservation District
Before (left) and After (right) a ponderosa pine restoration treatment at Shambhala Mountain Center.
photo: Fort Collins Conservation District
Before (top) and after (bottom) overview of a ponderosa pine restoration project at a ranch in northern Larimer County. This project was completed in July of 2018.
​photo credit: Big Thompson Conservation District
Before (top) and after (bottom) treatment view of a stand that was heavily effected by mountain pine beetle in the 10-12 years prior to treatment. This photo is from a forest restoration treatment completed on a cattle ranch in northern Larimer County in July of 2018.
​photo: Fort Collins Conservation District
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