We’re excited to share major progress from the ReSHAPE team this fall. With the release of TWIG 1.0 and new research findings, managers now have stronger tools and insights to guide wildfire planning and [...]
From informing national conversations on forest management to advancing community-focused research in the Southwest, the ERI Human Dimensions and Partnerships group has had an impactful summer and fall season. Highlights include: Publication of a [...]
ERI’s newly renamed Tribal Forest Stewardship and Restoration Program continues to reflect our mission to engage with tribes, tribal practitioners, and their partners in landscape-scale ecosystem restoration. The program highlights the vital role of [...]
It has been an exciting and productive summer and fall season for ERI’s Ecology group, marked by fieldwork, conference participation, and the completion of several major projects before year’s end. From studying forest resilience [...]
ReSHAPE Program Updates: Improvements and Opportunities The ReSHAPE program, and the Treatment and Wildfire Interagency Geodatabase (TWIG) continue to expand and improve to better support land managers, researchers, and policy makers. Recent updates make [...]
The Science Delivery and Application group at ERI is planning to participate in the 36th annual Flagstaff Festival of Science and the Colorado Plateau Biennial Workshop, both occurring this September. The Science Delivery team’s [...]
ERI’s Native American Forest and Rangeland Management program has been actively partnering with tribal natural resource management programs, organizations, and federal and state agencies to facilitate restorative management of tribal forests and rangelands. ERI [...]
ERI’s Policy and Communications group, comprised of Niki vonHedemann, Sarah Devenport, Scott Franz, and led by Melanie Colavito, has been full speed ahead on a number of projects that advance best available knowledge on [...]
ERI’s Forest Operation and Biomass Utilization team is planning a new study to address the operational and ecological challenges associated with conventional slash management in whole-tree (WT) harvest operations. Commonly used in the Southwest, [...]
This field season, ERI’s ecology group will continue to focus on applied research addressing modern technologies that improve data accuracy and efficiency, recent changes in structure of lesser-studied forest types, drought-related shifts in fire [...]
