By Shannon Lukens.

 

Senator John Hickenlooper held a roundtable hosted by Steamboat Fire Chief Chuck Cerasoli, and other local officials about fire mitigation in the region. Those included were from the Routt County Wildfire Mitigation Council, Routt County Climate Action Collaborative, Upper Yampa Water Conservancy District, and the U.S. Forest Service. It was a discussion on a fire adapted future for Colorado and the west.

Senator Hickenlooper says he learned how well the region works together as far as fire mitigation, building back healthy forests and forest resiliency and how the community is coming together to make sure people can insure their mountain homes in case of a fire.

“These kinds of things come out of a meeting like this… My job is to go back and get some resources and try to solve the problem, again with all the people today that were here helping us.”

Hickenlooper says there is nothing partisan about this, and that both sides need to work together.