In 2010, the USDA Forest Service (USFS) initiated the national 10-year Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration (CFLR) program to increase the pace and scale of ecological restoration efforts in forests with pressing needs for treatment to offset the effects of past anthropogenic stressors. Following several major wildfires, a mountain pine beetle epidemic, and rapid expansion of the wildland-urban interface, the Front Range of the southern Rocky Mountains in Colorado was one of the first landscapes in the US to receive CFLR funding. Over the past 8 years, CFLR funding has catalyzed efforts by a diverse collaborative group (USFS, other resource managers, scientists, and stakeholders) to implement and monitor restoration treatments in ponderosa-pine dominated forests along the Colorado Front Range. This talk describes the progress and challenges experienced by the collaborative, focusing in particular on how more than 10 scientific studies and monitoring efforts have been developed and integrated – with varying degrees of success! - into both the adaptive management and adaptive monitoring processes.