Under current policy, fire managers may use natural ignitions (i.e., lightning) to allow fire to fulfill its natural role on the landscape, while meeting objectives for firefighter safety, resource benefit, and community protection as [...]
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 [...]
Effective land management requires understanding an ecosystem’s vulnerability to climate change impacts and the appropriate management responses to these threats. The ERI hosted a workshop in March 2022 for the Coronado National Forest, in [...]
Tribal Forestry Student Summit The ERI is coordinating renewed planning for the Tribal Forestry Student Summit, which will be held on the NAU campus October 12–14, 2022. This hybrid event has been postponed twice [...]
There are currently a number of ongoing projects at ERI related to the human dimensions of forest restoration, which refer to activities contribute to building support and motivating action for restoration. Highlights from these [...]
In 2022, the ERI’s Ecology team will conduct field projects to address current and emerging questions related to forest restoration treatment effectiveness, climate and fire impacts on forests, and understudied forest ecosystems. During the [...]
This past summer, the ERI outreach crew headed to the Santa Fe National Forest in New Mexico to revisit a 12-year-old restoration demonstration site and explore the San Juan Canyon for a rapid assessment [...]
San Carlos Forest Tour ERI staff Jon Martin and Dave Huffman made a two-day trip to the San Carlos Apache Reservation to tour specific project sites and assess research potential. The tour was led [...]
On June 20, 2010, the Schultz Fire was ignited by an abandoned campfire and went on to burn 15,075 acres northeast of Flagstaff, Arizona. Following the fire, intense monsoon rains over the burned area [...]
The Forest Operations and Biomass Utilization team at ERI completed an ongoing project synthesizing thinning cost studies published over the last 40 years (1980–2020) in the US West. We found that forest thinning operational [...]
