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Patterns and drivers of early conifer regeneration following stand-replacing wildfire in Pacific Northwest (USA) temperate maritime forests

Year of Publication

2023

Publication Type

Tree regeneration is a critical mechanism of forest resilience to stand-replacing wildfire (i.e., where fire results in >90 % tree mortality), and post-fire regeneration is a concern worldwide as the climate becomes warmer.

Forest restoration and fuels reduction work: Different pathways for achieving success in the Sierra Nevada

Year of Publication

2023

Publication Type

Journal Article

Fire suppression and past selective logging of large trees have fundamentally changed frequent-fire-adapted forests in California. The culmination of these changes produced forests that are vulnerable to catastrophic change by wildfire, drought, and bark beetles, with climate change exacerbating this vulnerability.

Satellite-derived prefire vegetation predicts variation in field-based invasive annual grass cover after fir

Year of Publication

2023

Publication Type

Journal Article

Aims

Water utility engagement in wildfire mitigation in watersheds in the western United States

Year of Publication

2023

Publication Type

Journal Article

Scaling up climate-adaptation in wildfire-prone watersheds requires innovative partnerships and funding. Water utilities are one stakeholder group that could play a role in these efforts. The overarching purpose of this study was to understand water utility engagement in wildfire mitigation efforts in the western United States.

Exceptional variability in historical fire regimes across a western Cascades landscape, Oregon, USA

Year of Publication

2023

Publication Type

Journal Article

Detailed information about the historical range of variability in wildfire activity informs adaptation to future climate and disturbance regimes. Here, we describe one of the first annually resolved reconstructions of historical (1500–1900 ce) fire occurrence in coast Douglas-fir dominated forests of the west slope of the Cascade Range in western Oregon.

Mechanical thinning restores ecological functions in a seasonally dry ponderosa pine forest in the inland Pacific Northwest, USA

Year of Publication

2023

Publication Type

Journal Article

An increasingly important goal of federal land managers in seasonally dry forests of the western US is restoring forest resilience. In this study, we quantified the degree to which a thinning treatment in a dry forest of eastern Oregon restored aspects of forest resilience by focusing on key functional attributes of our study system.

Harnessing Natural Disturbances: A Nature-Based Solution for Restoring and Adapting Dry Forests in the Western USA to Climate Change

Year of Publication

2023

Publication Type

Journal Article

Natural disturbances (wildfires, droughts, beetle outbreaks) shaped temperate forests for millennia, including dry forests of the western USA. Could they now best restore and adapt dry forests to climate change while protecting nearby communities?

Avoided wildfire impact modeling with counterfactual probabilistic analysis

Year of Publication

2023

Publication Type

Journal Article

Assessing the effectiveness and measuring the performance of fuel treatments and other wildfire risk mitigation efforts are challenging endeavors. Perhaps the most complicated is quantifying avoided impacts. In this study, we show how probabilistic counterfactual analysis can help with performance evaluation.

Consistently heterogeneous structures observed at multiple spatial scales across fire-intact reference sites

Year of Publication

2023

Publication Type

Journal Article

Yellow pine and mixed-conifer (YPMC) forests of California’s Sierra Nevada have experienced widespread fire suppression for over a century, resulting in ingrowth and densification of trees, heavy fuel accumulation, and shifts in species composition.

Low-intensity fires mitigate the risk of high-intensity wildfires in California’s forests

Year of Publication

2023

Publication Type

Journal Article

The increasing frequency of severe wildfires demands a shift in landscape management to mitigate their consequences. The role of managed, low-intensity fire as a driver of beneficial fuel treatment in fire-adapted ecosystems has drawn interest in both scientific and policy venues.

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