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and land managers use many different lines of evidence, including dendrochronology, forest structure data, and historical documents and photographs, to reconstruct a landscape’s historical forest conditions and fire regimes.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 [...]
A new set of papers reviews the established science on wildfires and forest management. In the three papers, the authors—which include several ecologists from the ERI and NAU’s School of Forestry—summarized more than 1,000 published papers [...]
Understanding the long-term socio-economic implications of high-severity wildfire and post-fire flooding Southwestern mountain town communities like Flagstaff, Arizona are no strangers to wildfires and monsoon rains. But, a changing climate is affecting the [...]
The 2020 wildfire season set records across the western US. Scientists expect climate change to exacerbate severe wildfires with increasing temperatures and drought conditions. Add to the mix dense forests full of excess trees [...]
