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 [...]
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. Some [...]
In addition to exploring the social impacts of reforestation and fire management, ERI’s Policy and Communications group is collaborating with partners to evaluate wildfire risk science and decision-support tools. Some of the ongoing social [...]
The Forest Operations and Biomass Utilization program at ERI focuses on improving the overall economics of restoration treatments through improving operational efficiency and increasing wood and biomass utilization. This fall, ERI staff are working [...]
In the summer of 2024, ERI staff and students collected field data at various sites across the Southwest. This effort investigated the impacts of drought and wildfire on ecosystems, evaluated the effects of ecological [...]
ERI’s Science Delivery and Application staff are leading 4FRI Stakeholder Group members to support the 4FRI Treatment Prioritization and Optimization of the 4FRI landscape, which has 2.4 million acres of NEPA-cleared restoration work in [...]
