Organizations Filed Purposes:
To inspire, motivate, educate and serve individuals, organizations and communities joining together to protect lives and property from wildfire across five southwest counties of Colorado
Education and outreach programs are focused on educating the general public of SW Colorado on wildfire preparedness including how to create defensible space for their homes and neighborhoods and evacuation planning. Outreach also includes our Neighborhood Ambassador Program, where staff support volunteer ambassadors (through trainings, HOA presentations, and community protection plans) who act as sparkplugs for their communities wildfire efforts, motivating their neighbors to learn to live with wildfire and create fire adapted communities. There are 135 volunteer ambassadors who represent 95 communities that have high risk of wildfire throughout the 5 counties in SW Colorado.
Wildfire Mitigation Incentive Programs help individuals and communities in SW Colorado to reduce the overall cost of completing wildfire risk reduction activities. Activities include: defensible space site visit and cost share program, chipper rebate program, and other community-level projects. All incentive programs help residents by reimbursing for approved activities up to 50% of expenses, ultimately, lovering the overall cost of mitigation activities that subsequesntly make their properties safer in the event of a wildfire.
The Dolores Watershed and Resilient Forest (DWRF) Collaborative promotes forest, community and watershed resilience through stakeholder collaboration in the Dolores River watershed in SW Colorado. DWRF fosters a network of professionals and residents who share knowledge and resources in order to better prepare for, respond to, and recover from severe wildfire, post-fire effects and other disturbances within the watershed.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Paulette Church | Vice Chair | 5 | $0 |
| Les Kole | Chairman | 5 | $0 |
| Philip Ayers | Treasurer | 5 | $0 |
| Joe Reddan | Member | 5 | $0 |
| Al Myatt | Secretary | 5 | $0 |
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