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Post-fire regeneration

Journal articles

  • Beschta, R. L., Rhodes, J. J., Kauffman, J. B., Gresswell, R. E., Minshall, G. W., Karr, J. R., Perry, D. A., Hauer, F. R., & Frissell, C. A. (2004). Postfire management on forested public lands of the western United States. Conservation Biology (Vol. 18, Issue 4, pp. 957–967). https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2004.00495.x
  • Peterson, D. W., Hessburg, P. F., Salter, B., James, K. M., Dahlgreen, M. C., & Barnes, J. A. (n.d.). Reintroducing Fire in Regenerated Dry Forests Following Stand-Replacing Wildfire 1. https://www.fs.usda.gov/psw/publications/documents/psw_gtr203/psw_gtr203_009peterson.pdf 
  • Busby, Sebastian, Cody Evers, and Andrés Holz. 2024. “Patterns, Drivers, and Implications of Postfire Delayed Tree Mortality in Temperate Conifer Forests of the Western United States.” Ecosphere 15(4): e4805. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4805
  • Angela E. Boag, Mark J. Ducey, Michael W. Palace, Joel Hartter, Topography and fire legacies drive variable post-fire juvenile conifer regeneration in eastern Oregon, USA, Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 474, 2020, 118312, ISSN 0378-1127, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2020.118312
  • Coop, J. D., T. J. DeLory, W. M. Downing, S. L. Haire, M. A. Krawchuk, C. Miller, M.-A. Parisien, and R. B. Walker. 2019. Contributions of fire refugia to resilient ponderosa pine and dry mixed-conifer forest landscapes. Ecosphere 10(7):e02809. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2809
  • Maria J. Lopez Ortiz, Terry Marcey, Melissa S. Lucash, David Hibbs, Jeffrey P.A. Shatford, Jonathan R. Thompson, Post-fire management affects species composition but not Douglas-fir regeneration in the Klamath Mountains, Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 432, 2019, Pages 1030-1040, ISSN 0378-1127, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2018.10.030
  • *Tepley, A. J., F. J. Swanson, and T. A. Spies. 2014. Post-fire tree establishment and early cohort development in conifer forests of the western Cascades of Oregon, USA. Ecosphere 5(7):80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/ES14-00112.1    
  • Povak, N. A., D. J. Churchill, C. A. Cansler, P. F. Hessburg, V. R. Kane, J. T. Kane, J. A. Lutz, and A. J. Larson. 2020. Wildfire severity and postfire salvage harvest effects on long-term forest regeneration. Ecosphere 11(8):e03199. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3199   
  • Welch, K. R., H. D. Safford, and T. P. Young. 2016. Predicting conifer establishment post wildfire in mixed conifer forests of the North American Mediterranean-climate zone. Ecosphere 7(12):e01609. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.1609
  • Morgan, P., Moy, M., Droske, C.A. et al. Vegetation Response to Burn Severity, Native Grass Seeding, and Salvage Logging. Fire Ecology 11, 31–58 (2015). https://doi.org/10.4996/fireecology.1102031
  • Coop, Jonathan D., et al. "Wildfire-driven forest conversion in western North American landscapes." BioScience 70.8 (2020): 659-673. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biaa061
  • Malcolm P. North, Jens T. Stevens, David F. Greene, Michelle Coppoletta, Eric E. Knapp, Andrew M. Latimer, Christina M. Restaino, Ryan E. Tompkins, Kevin R. Welch, Rob A. York, Derek J.N. Young, Jodi N. Axelson, Tom N. Buckley, Becky L. Estes, Rachel N. Hager, Jonathan W. Long, Marc D. Meyer, Steven M. Ostoja, Hugh D. Safford, Kristen L. Shive, Carmen L. Tubbesing, Heather Vice, Dana Walsh, Chhaya M. Werner, Peter Wyrsch, Tamm Review: Reforestation for resilience in dry western U.S. forests, Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 432, 2019, Pages 209-224, ISSN 0378-1127, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2018.09.007.
  • Ariel D. Cowan, Jane E. Smith, Stephen A. Fitzgerald. 2016. Recovering lost ground: effects of soil burn intensity on nutrients and ectomycorrhiza communities of ponderosa pine seedlings. https://research.fs.usda.gov/pnw/news/highlights/high-severity-fires-affect-seedlings#publications
  • Erica E. Packard, Daniel M. Durall, Melanie D. Jones, Successional changes in fungal communities occur a few weeks following wildfire in a mixed Douglas-fir-ponderosa pine forest, Fungal Ecology, Volume 63, 2023, 101246, ISSN 1754-5048, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.funeco.2023.101246
  • Andrew J. Larson, Sean M.A. Jeronimo, Paul F. Hessburg, James A. Lutz, Nicholas A. Povak, C. Alina Cansler, Van R. Kane, Derek J. Churchill, Tamm Review: Ecological principles to guide post-fire forest landscape management in the Inland Pacific and Northern Rocky Mountain regions, Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 504, 2022, 119680, ISSN 0378-1127, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119680
  • Boag, Angela E., et al. "Topography and fire legacies drive variable post-fire juvenile conifer regeneration in eastern Oregon, USA." Forest Ecology and Management 474 (2020): 118312. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2020.118312 

 

 

Extension Publications

Postfire Revegetation Overview. OSU Extension. https://extension.oregonstate.edu/sites/default/files/documents/8341/reforestation-summary.pdf

 

 

Webinars and Videos

Composition and diversity of early-seral forest communities vary with burn severity and pre-fire stand age following fire in western Cascadia.

Liliana Rangel-Parra, University of Washington

https://youtu.be/i5i56OBfj34?si=PK6fWZRC-bDGfURd   

 

Twenty-year post-fire recovery in western Oregon: Tracing early seral trajectories with a spatially balanced forest inventory sample

Oriana Chafe, University of Washington

https://youtu.be/EkSl1J99F3I?si=dz42wPxyOe4zApBc  

 

Rock Creek post-fire restoration monitoring

Jeff McEnroe, U.S. Bureau of Land Management

https://youtu.be/GsywnwZox_E?si=ssCfyuxzzCWON5rg

 

 

Syntheses, research briefs, info graphics, and reports

Kirkland, John; Johnson, Morris. 2022. Passive or active management? Understanding consequences and changes after large stand-replacing wildfires. Science Findings 247. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 6p. https://research.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/64149 

 

 

Web-based tools and storymaps