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						Landscape/Watershed Assessments JW Associates has been a leader in innovative approaches to Watershed/Landscape Assessments in the last 10 years. Our involvement began in the Upper South Platte Watershed Landscape Assessment in 1999. That assessment has lead to forest restoration of more than 10,000 acres of ponderosa pine forest. Numerous NEPA planning efforts have used that assessment as support for the landscape vision of forest restoration. JW Associates has completed three other large-scale landscape assessments in association with Northern Arizona University in Arizona and New Mexico. Those assessments were focused on prioritizing watersheds for treatment to reduce the impacts of flooding and erosion following intense wildfires. We supported the Colorado State Forest Service and a group of agencies, water providers and other technical advisors in creation of Protecting Critical Watersheds in Colorado from Wildfire: A Technical Approach to Watershed Assessment and Prioritization. We have completed 11 watershed assessments and are currently implementing that approach in one more watershed in Colorado. See the Watershed Wildfire Protection Group page for more information. Click on the image below to display some of our assessment projects.


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