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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.

The contribution of Indigenous stewardship to an historical mixed-severity fire regime in British Columbia, Canada

Year of Publication
2022
Publication Type

Indigenous land stewardship and mixed-severity fire regimes both promote landscape heterogeneity, and the relationship between them is an emerging area of research. In our study, we reconstructed the historical fire regime of Ne Sextsine, a 5900-ha dry, Douglas-fir-dominated forest in the traditional territory of the T’exelc (Williams Lake First Nation) in British Columbia, Canada.

Evidence for widespread changes in the structure, composition, and fire regimes of western North American forests

Year of Publication
2021
Publication Type

Implementation of wildfire- and climate-adaptation strategies in seasonally dry forests of western North America is impeded by numerous constraints and uncertainties. After more than a century of resource and land use change, some question the need for proactive management, particularly given novel social, ecological, and climatic conditions.

Wildfire severity and postfire salvage harvest effects on long-term forest regeneration

Year of Publication
2020
Publication Type

Following a wildfire, regeneration to forest can take decades to centuries and is no longerassured in many western U.S. environments given escalating wildfire severity and warming trends. Afterlarge fire years, managers prioritize where to allocate scarce planting resources, often with limited informationon the factors that drive successful forest establishment.

How does tree regeneration respond to mixed‐severity fire in the western Oregon Cascades, USA?

Year of Publication
2020
Publication Type

Dendroecological studies of historical tree recruitment patterns suggest mixed‐severity fire effects are common in Douglas‐fir/western hemlock forests of the Pacific Northwest (PNW), USA, but empirical studies linking observed fire severity to tree regeneration response are needed to expand our understanding into the functional role of fire in this forest type.