Six years after the Cameron Peak Fire, restoration continues in Black Hollow

Denver7 · Sep 24, 2026 · 448 words · By Peter Choi

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COLORADO — Six years after the Cameron Peak Fire burned more than 200,000 acres across Northern Colorado, restoration work continues in areas where forests have struggled to naturally recover.

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COLORADO — Six years after the Cameron Peak Fire burned more than 200,000 acres across Northern Colorado, restoration work continues in areas where forests have struggled to naturally recover.

Why it matters

Near Highway 14 and Poudre Canyon Road, Denver7 met Morgan Cannon, Northern Colorado project coordinator with the National Forest Foundation.

Common ground

She took us into the Cameron Peak burn scar to see some of that restoration work firsthand.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 5 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “So far, more than 80,000 trees have been planted as of June this year.”

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The provided evidence contains no information regarding the number of trees planted specifically for the Cameron Peak restoration effort as of June 2024.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Dove Olivia Cameron (born Chloe Celeste Hosterman; January 15, 1996) is an American singer and actress. She rose to fame for her dual role of the eponymous characters in Disney Channel's comedy series…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dove_Cameron

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — "Breakfast" is a song by the American singer and actress Dove Cameron. She wrote it along with Delacey, Jesse Finkelstein, and its producer, Evan Blair. The song was released through Disruptor and Col…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakfast_(Dove_Cameron_song)

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Cameron Donald Whitcomb is a Canadian singer and songwriter from Nanaimo, British Columbia. He competed on season 20 of reality television show American Idol. He is currently signed to Atlantic Record…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_Whitcomb

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Claim 2: “burning an area larger than Denver”

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While evidence confirms the fire burned over 200,000 acres and was the largest in state history, none of the provided evidence sources explicitly compare the burned area's size to the city of Denver.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Cameron Peak fire was a wildfire that started near Chambers Lake, Colorado, 25 miles (40 km) east of Walden and 15 miles (24 km) southwest of Red Feather Lakes near Cameron Pass on August 13, 2020…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_Peak_fire

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2020 East Troublesome Fire was a massive and destructive wildfire, and the second-largest in the history of the U.S. state of Colorado. Named for the East Fork of Troublesome Creek, close to the f…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Troublesome_Fire

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of the most extensive, most destructive, and deadliest Colorado wildfires that have occurred in modern history. During the severe 2002 Colorado wildfire season that burned nearly 619,02…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Colorado_wildfires

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Claim 3: “Six years after the Cameron Peak Fire burned more than 200,000 acres across Northern Colorado”

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Multiple web search results confirm the Cameron Peak Fire burned more than 200,000 acres in Northern Colorado. One source explicitly mentions it burned 'more than 200,000 acres' and another confirms it ignited in August 2020.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Pine Gulch Fire was a wildfire that burned in Mesa County and Garfield County, Colorado in the United States. The fire was started by a lightning strike and first reported on July 31, 2020, and qu…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Gulch_Fire

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Claim 4: “the National Forest Foundation and its partners are planting trees as part of the restoration effort [at Black Hollow]”

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The evidence mentions the National Forest Foundation partnering for tree planting in general contexts, but there is no mention of a specific restoration effort at 'Black Hollow'.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Black Forest (German: Schwarzwald [ˈʃvaʁtsvalt] ) is a large forested mountain range in the state of Baden-Württemberg in southwest Germany, bounded by the Rhine Valley to the west and south and c…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Forest

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Black Rock Forest is a 3,920-acre (15.9 km2) forest and biological field station maintained by Black Rock Forest Consortium. It is located in the western Hudson Highlands region of the U.S. state of N…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Rock_Forest

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Tongass National Forest () in Southeast Alaska is the largest U.S. National Forest at 16.7 million acres (26,100 sq mi; 6,800,000 ha; 68,000 km2), an expanse larger than 10 U.S. states and 75 U.N.…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongass_National_Forest

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Claim 5: “The Cameron Peak Fire was the largest wildfire in Colorado’s recorded history”

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The claim is corroborated by a cross-reference (Denver7) and multiple independent web search results stating it is the largest wildfire in Colorado's recorded history.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2020 Colorado wildfire season was a series of significant wildfires that burned throughout the U.S. state of Colorado as part of the 2020 Western United States wildfire season. With a total of 665…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Colorado_wildfires

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