by admin | Sep 14, 2023 | Activism, Colorado, Disaster, Disaster Recovery, Emergency Management, Housing, Natural Hazards, Public safety, Urban Planning, Wildfire
The field production of Planning to Turn the Tide, the documentary film project of the American Planning Association’s Hazard Mitigation and Disaster Recovery (HMDR) Planning Division, has involved dozens of local volunteers and supporters in several states spread...
by admin | Sep 6, 2023 | Blogging, Colorado, Disaster, Disaster Recovery, Drought, Emergency Management, Floodplain management, Government, Hazard Mitigation, Infrastructure, Natural Hazards, Resilience, Urban Planning, Wildfire
Ten years ago this month, Colorado faced a crisis. Following previous years of drought and wildfires, Rocky Mountain monsoon rains dumped a year’s worth of precipitation on the Front Range in a single day. Water poured down mountainsides that were sometimes so parched...