In August of 2020, the Cameron Peak Fire was racing uncontrollably towards communities in northern Colorado. As it reached the footprint of a past U.S. Forest Service prescribed burn and the Drala Mountain Center (formerly Shambhala Mountain Center), a near-miracle occurred. The prescribed burn, combined with forest restoration treatments at Drala, gave firefighters a foothold to halt a portion of the fire and avert disaster for the communities downslope.
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Evan Barrientos is a conservation filmmaker and the creator of Fireforest. He began working on prescribed fire crews in Florida in 2015 and continued to do so in Nebraska in 2016. In 2017 and 2018, he supported The Nature Conservancy’s forest restoration in southern Oregon. There, he developed a foundation in forest ecology and restoration and a passion for communicating about it.
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