Podcast Series: Fire in the Southwest Integrating Indigenous Knowledge into Western Fire Management with ERI’s Jon Martin Jon Martin, ERI’s Director of Native American Forest and Rangeland Management Programming at the Ecological Restoration Institute, [...]
Estimating the Return on Investment from Restoration and Fuel Treatments in US Western Frequent-Fire Forests Forest restoration and fuel treatments, including thinning and prescribed burning, have become the primary approaches for reducing the [...]
Understanding Post-Fire Flood Insurance Decision-Making Flood insurance can minimize the social and financial impacts associated with post-fire flood events, but little is known about who purchases coverage after wildfires or their experiences with [...]
2024 IUFRO World Congress: Communicating and Connecting This week, ERI staff are contributing to the International Union of Forest Research Organizations World Congress 2024, in Stockholm, Sweden! Amy Waltz, ERI’s Director of Science Delivery, worked [...]
Indigenous Biomass Use for Forest and Community Well-Being: A Case Study of Wood For Life Climate change is expected to continue to exacerbate impacts to forested ecosystems by increasing the frequency, size, and severity [...]
Publication Corner: Climate Influences on Future Fire Severity Climate change is expected to continue to exacerbate impacts to forested ecosystems by increasing the frequency, size, and severity of wildfires across the western US. [...]
Experiences with Wildfire and Flooding: The 2019 Museum Fire The 2019 Museum Fire provided a case study for ERI and NAU School of Forestry researchers to better understand how the cascading disturbances of [...]
Refuge-yeah or Refuge-nah? A new study in the journal Global Change Biology shows that the most important places on the landscape after a wildfire are the places where trees survived, known as refugia. The article [...]
Hot Topic: Managed Wildfire Managed wildfire has been in use on federally managed lands since at least the 1910s, despite falling in and out of public and political favor over the years. Managers [...]
Trees are sensitive to the effects of a warming climate, particularly in dry regions such as the southwestern United States. Over the past few decades, climate change has driven increases in wildfire, bark [...]
