A dry winter in Northern Colorado is forcing volunteers working to restore areas burned by the Cameron Peak Fire to put tree-planting efforts on hold, highlighting the growing challenges drought poses to long-term wildfire recovery.
Since the Cameron Peak Fire scorched hundreds of thousands of acres across Northern Colorado in 2020, crews have worked to rebuild damaged communities, restore water infrastructure and replant forests lost to the state’s largest wildfire.
But this year, members of the Larimer County Conservation Corps say conditions are simply too dry for new seedlings to survive…