I traveled to Salida, Colorado, for two days with a coworker at the Colorado State Forest Service to film this video highlighting a massive partnership project the CSFS has undertaken with the Bureau of Land Management, local agencies and private landowners to reduce wildfire risk on Poncha Pass. We worked with local colleagues to organize the interviews before arriving so we could film 7 interviews, drone footage and b-roll from two cameras in two days. (Phew!) Back at the home office in Fort Collins, I edited the massive amounts of footage into this feature video that conveys how landowners can benefit from partnership projects across federal, state and private land boundaries. I earned the national Society of American Foresters Outstanding Forestry Journalism award in 2024, largely for the video editing that brought this story to state legislators, federal partners and educated residents around the state about benefits of wildfire reduction efforts.
Amy Bulger 