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The Ponderosa pine forests that hug the Front Range are known as the Urban Interface Forest. It is within this forest that the fire regime has been altered. A fire regime is used to describe the characteristics of fire within an ecosystem. Fire is a natural part of an ecosystem because it acts as a way that the natural environment cycles nutrients back into the soil. Fire would roll through this ecosystem in 1-25 year intervals. Fires were historically low intensity ground fires. Because of population encroachment, lack of natural fires, and this ecosystems dependency on fire, fires in this area are now often high intensity fires.
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