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<br />"The interface is developing <br />faster than fire protection <br />services. " <br /> <br />"Developers should be given <br />incentives for fire safety <br />measures." <br /> <br />"The Black Tiger Fire did <br />what we expected such <br />afire to do." <br /> <br />"Coniferous forests are <br />inherently 'fire <br />. ", <br />environments. <br /> <br />4 <br /> <br />3. Economic growth <br />For revenue,hungry rural jurisdictions development has been welcomed. <br />Improvements and their attendant values provide much,needed sales for <br />local businesses and tax revenues to governments. Rural economic growth <br />is a state priority. <br /> <br />4. Land use legislation <br />Unbridled growth and sprawl of the 19605 and early 1970s brought about <br />much needed land use legislation by the state legislature. However, the <br />proviso of exempting land divisions exceeding 35 acres per parcel from <br />subdivision requirements has worsened the interface problem, Homes can <br />now be found scattered over larger wildland tracts rather than being <br />concentrated into fue,safe areas. Services, such as providing good road <br />access, water systems and fire protection, critical for defending <br />improvements against wildfire, are more costly and difficult to maintain. <br /> <br />The Fire Environment <br /> <br />"Wildfire" can be described as an open fue which spreads unconstrained <br />through the environment. If not quickly controlled, the result can be a fire <br />stonn, often tenned a "conflagration." which destroys large amounts of <br />property and threatens lives. <br /> <br /> <br />Since prehistoric times, wildfires (both large and small) have been a <br />continuous and powerful natural force in shaping and changing Colorado's <br />landscape. Many of the state's tree, brush and grass species have evolved <br />into fire,dependent ecosystems. Some are so fire dependent that their <br />flammability increases with age thus assuring renewal and continuation of <br />the species after each re,occurring wildfire. <br /> <br />So, wildfues will continue to occur as a natural process on a regular basis. <br />While any vegetation can bum during drought, most fire'prone wildlands <br />are generally found on drier sites at lower or middle elevations - which <br />are the same sites preferred by humans for development. Therefore, more <br />