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 [...]
In Arizona and New Mexico, there are 10 million acres of tribal forested land. Across the US, tribes share thousands of miles of forested boundaries with federal land management agencies. For example, tribes share [...]
Scientists and land managers use many different lines of evidence, including dendrochronology, forest structure data, and historical documents and photographs, to reconstruct a landscape’s historical forest conditions and fire regimes. One line of direct [...]
