Drought and Fire Related Tip Sheets

• Consumer/Family
• Crops/Soils

• Food & Nutrition
• Lawn & Gardening

• Livestock
• Natural Resources

Consumer & Family

• Assessing Your Homesite After A Wildfire
• Farm and Ranch Family Stress and Depression: A Checklist and Guide for Making Referrals
• Farm & Ranch Family Tough Times Resource List
• Three Questions and Answers Related to Wildfires and Stress
• Resources for Depression
• Wildfires and Stress

Crops/Soils

• Adoption of More Technically Efficient Irrigation Systems as a Drought Response
• Beware of Nitrates
• Colorado farms and ranches risk nitrate poisoning in drought stressed forages
• Drought and Irrigated Wheat Variety Decisions (for Agents)
• Determination of Soil Moisture Calculations (Excel)
• Management Responses by Agricultural Producers During the 2002 Drought
• Measurement of Soil Moisture
• Strategies to Minimize Nitrate Levels in Stressed Corn
• Suggested structures, chop length and screen size for harvesting corn for silage.
• Other State Extension Crop Resources:
• Sunflower Silage
• Feed value of Corn at Various Maturity Stages
• How to value standing corn

Food & Nutrition

• Food Safety Issues After a Fire
• Food Safety and Storage for Emergency Preparedness
• Three-Day Emergency Supply of Shelf-Stable Food for One Person
• Resource Tipsheet: Water Storage

Lawn & Gardening

• Landscape Management during Drought and with Limited Water Availability in Colorado
• Water Wise Tips for Colorado Landscapes
• Efficient Landscape Irrigation during Drought and with Limited Water Availability in Colorado
• Landscape Irrigation Services: How to be a Wise Consumer
• Irrigation Check Form (Excel)
• Woody Plant Management During Drought and with Limited Water Availability in Colorado
• Flower Management during Drought and with Limited Water Availability in Colorado
• Water Conservation in the Vegetable Garden
• Drought cycles in Colorado

Livestock

• Alternative Feeding Strategies for Cows and Calves Due to Drought Related Forage Shortages

Natural Resources

• Colorado Residents are Urged to Help Promote Fire Prevention
• Coping with Natural and Institutional Drought
• Impacts of Drought on Wildlife

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