Colorado Statewide Forest Resource Assessment

potential funding and partnership opportunities, and responsiveness to“one-time-only” opportunities. The following actions for many species alreadyhave been identifi ed in associated recovery or conservation plans.• Twenty of Colorado’s rarest plants that are associated exclusively withforested habitats• Riparian forest plant communities• CNHP Potential Conservation Areas containing at least 50 percent forest• TNC priority landscapes associated with forestsThe resulting layer shows 7.7 million acres of forest land that are of high tovery high importance for Colorado’s imperiled wildlife. Of these acres, themajority are in spruce-fi r (2.2 million) and aspen (1.8 million) forest types,followed by piñon-juniper and lodgepole pine at approximately 820,000 acreseach. The USFS has responsibility for 60 percent (4.6 million acres) of thesehigh-priority acres, but private landowners also play a signifi cant role with 23percent (1.7 million acres).When combined with data showing areas projected to be signifi cantlyimpacted by future human development and modifi cation, the resulting layerreveals 2.5 million acres of highly ranked habitat for imperiled wildlife speciesthat also is highly threatened by fragmentation.Map 23 – Important Habitat for Imperiled Species57