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Gov. Jared Polis signed a suite of wildfire prevention and recovery-related bills Friday, clearing the way for the state to stand up a new emergency insurance plan, standardize fire-resistant building codes and buy a $26 million firefighting helicopter.

The only database of landslides in the state is a digitized map that is being created by the Colorado Geological Survey that shows where landslides have occurred. It doesn't contain related information that would help to show susceptibility for more slides, writes Nancy Lofholm in The Denver Post...

The City of Colorado Springs, Colorado, has released maps that indicate flash flood risks from the Waldo Canyon wildfire scar. The interactive maps are complete with addresses, flash flood risk areas and the potential impact of various precipitation amounts, reports Denver Post...

'We're going to have to figure out some more effective and efficient ways for adapting rather than just pouring more and more resources and money at it,' Forest Service climate change advisor Dave Cleaves said. 'We're going to have to have a lot more partnerships with states and communities to look at fires and forest health problems'...

'Our fire-management policy has not changed. It remains to restore and maintain resilient ecosystems, create fire-adapted communities, and respond to wildland fire while keeping communities safe,' writes the U.S. Forest Service chief Tom Tidwell in his opinion for the Denver Post...