A lightning-caused wildfire in 2002 burned through a third of the 22,000 acre Tercio Ranch in Southern Colorado. Restoration efforts included contour felling, chipping/mulching, and aerial seeding to stabilize the steep ground.  Subsequent efforts included forest treatments in strategic locations to reduce the potential for further loss. Significant among these was the work done over succeeding years to protect and regenerate aspen. Work on aspen regeneration has continued on the 172,000 acre Trinchera Ranch, which itself suffered a 14,000 acre wildfire in 2006. That work now includes experimentation on opening exclosures to allow limited ungulate access and a cooperative study with USU to better understand the aspen-elk dynamic. This presentation will address a variety of post-fire restoration techniques, forest treatments, and aspen management practices that have been used on these two ranches over the past 13 years, with observations on both the successes and the “learning opportunities”.