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 [...]
ERI field crews notched another successful year in 2021 and collected data for several projects that will provide forest managers with highly needed information related to ecological restoration treatments, climate effects on ecosystems, and [...]
What began as a response to an immediate need for home heating on the Navajo and Hopi nations is now recognized as a viable means of accomplishing land management agency goals for shared stewardship, [...]
The use of decision support systems (DSS), which includes a broad array of computer-based, spatial planning frameworks, methods, and tools, is increasingly common in pre-wildfire planning. Frameworks such as the National Cohesive Wildland Fire [...]
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 spring, ERI staff are working [...]
Understory plant communities account for a high proportion of total biodiversity in western forests, and they are important to monitor due to the role they play in affecting ecological function. In summer 2021, the [...]
Tribal Forestry Student Summit; The Tribal Forestry Student Summit has been postponed to fall 2021. This was in concern for the safety of summit participants and the NAU community. The planning committee also placed [...]
The ERI is exploring the different ways in which wildfires affect Arizona residents through multiple studies associated with wildfires in the Flagstaff area. In 2019, the ERI conducted a survey with the NAU School [...]
Building a Climate Adaptation Strategy with the Forest Service Climate change represents one of the most complex and unique challenges for natural resource management. In the Southwest, climate change contributes to changes we see [...]
