In January 2024, a Climate Adaptation Workshop was jointly held by Forest Service Region 3, the SW Climate Hub, SW Fire Science Consortium, and the ERI in Flagstaff, Arizona, bringing together resource managers from [...]
In 2024, the ERI’s Ecology Team will conduct field projects to address current and emerging questions related to climate and fire impacts on forests, forest restoration treatment effectiveness, and understory plant responses. The ecology [...]
The Native American Forest and Rangeland Management Program continues to engage with the Wood For Life (WFL) Partnership. WFL is a collaborative network of organizations in northern Arizona and neighboring states that was formed [...]
Biochar application in soils of northern Arizona Researchers are studying the impact of biochar on soil properties in northern Arizona from biochar produced in a CharBoss machine during a biomass demo in April. Currently, [...]
Incorporating 4FRI Stakeholders into Wildfire Crisis Strategy Prioritization Ecological Restoration Institute staff have long supported the Four Forest Restoration Initiative (4FRI) through shared leadership roles, and have providing the best available science to planning [...]
Over the summer season, ERI staff, students, and field technicians visited sites across the state of Arizona to collect data for studies focused on fire behavior prediction, climate impacts on forests, responses to restoration [...]
ERI’s Science Delivery team spent the winter and spring months of 2023 preparing for the May 2–4 Cross-Boundary Landscape Restoration Workshop at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, CO. The workshop was convened by [...]
ERI’s Native American Forest and Rangeland Management Program has been busy this year partnering with tribal natural resource management programs, organizations, and federal and state agencies to facilitate restorative management of tribal forests and [...]
The Forest Operations and Biomass Utilization team at ERI conducted a weeklong experiment/ demo April 24–28 at the Coconino County Public Works Facility in Flagstaff. The ERI team studied burning efficiencies of an Air [...]
In summer 2022, the ERI’s Ecology team initiated new field projects and remeasured permanent study plots to address questions focused on climate-related changes and management strategies in southwestern forests. For example, field crews spent [...]
