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 [...]
Determining Forest Thinning Operation Costs in the Western US Mechanical forest thinning treatments are implemented across the western US to improve forest health, reduce hazardous fuels, and mitigate unnaturally severe wildfire. However, thinning [...]
The Right Seedling for Reforestation: Success, Partners, and Policy Forest regeneration in a changing climate, Part 2 November 9, 2022 | 11am–12:30pm MST Co-hosted by Rocky Mountain Research Station and Southwest Ecological [...]
Too Much, Too Little or Just Right? Forest regeneration in fire-adapted landscapes May 5, 2022 | 10–11:30am MDT Co-hosted by Rocky Mountain Research Station and Southwest Ecological Restoration Institutes Join us for [...]
A major barrier to increasing the pace and scale of restoration treatmentsand reducing the threat of wildfire is a lack of forest product industry workforce and capacity. The forest product industry has been in [...]
20 years of Megafire: Compounding Disturbances in a Climate-Altered West March 8–10, 2022 Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado The 2022 Cross-Boundary Landscape Restoration Workshop will bring together land and fire managers, researchers, and stakeholders to [...]
