Monitoring Riparian Wetlands in Colorado’s Cache La Poudre Watershed

Colorado Water TeamOriginal, Spring 2013 VPS

Imagery of Colorado's Cache La Poudre watershed. Credit: DEVELOP

Imagery of Colorado's Cache La Poudre watershed. Credit: DEVELOPIncreasing occurrences of large-scale forest fires in the Rocky Mountains have threatened forests that are vital to overall ecosystem health and human well-being. The goal of this project was to model riparian wetlands in the Cache La Poudre watershed to provide a decision-support tool for monitoring change in the watershed following the devastating High Park Fire of 2012.