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Panel: Wildfire Ready Watersheds has sustainable funding, council told; state budget constraints limit new spending
Summary
Colorado Forest Health Council members heard that Wildfire Ready Watersheds and the Colorado Water Plan grant provide sustainable funding, but state budget shortfalls make new general-fund investments unlikely in the near term.
At a Dec. 13 meeting of the Colorado Forest Health Council’s legislative committee, members were told that the Wildfire Ready Watersheds program receives sustainable funding through the Colorado Water Plan grant and that the program does not currently need additional state funding.
The council discussed whether state policy could create low-cost opportunities to support forest implementation work while officials await results of broader biomass and county studies expected in 2025.
“Allison Arch said she had contacted Chris Sturm at the Colorado Water Conservation Board and relayed that ‘the program has sustainable funding…
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