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 [...]
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 [...]
