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Too hot, too cold, or just right: Can wildfire restore dry forests of the interior Pacific Northwest?

Year of Publication
2023
Publication Type
As contemporary wildfire activity intensifies across the western United States, there is increasing recognition that a variety of forest management activities are necessary to restore ecosystem function and reduce wildfire hazard in dry forests. However, the pace and scale of current, active forest management is insufficient to address restoration needs.

Burn severity and pre-fire seral state interact to shape vegetation responses to fire in a young, western Cascade Range forest

Year of Publication
2022
Publication Type
Wildfire size and frequency are increasing across the western U.S., affecting large areas of young, second-growth forest originating after logging and burning. Despite their prevalence in the western Cascade landscape, we have a poor understanding of how these young stands respond to fire or how their responses differ from older, undisturbed forests, which are well studied.

A multi-century history of fire regimes along a transect of mixed-conifer forests in central Oregon, U.S.A

Year of Publication
2019
Publication Type
Dry mixed-conifer forests are widespread in the interior Pacific Northwest, but their historical fire regimes are poorly characterized, in particular the relative mix of low- and high-severity fire. We reconstructed a multi-century history of fire from tree rings in dry mixed-conifer forests in central Oregon. These forests are dominated by ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa Lawson & C.