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and land managers use many different lines of evidence, including dendrochronology, forest structure data, and historical documents and photographs, to reconstruct a landscape’s historical forest conditions and fire regimes.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 [...]
A recent study led by Mike Stoddard and a team of ERI-NAU ecologists examined two decades of ecological responses to forest restoration treatments at a set of sites in ERI’s Long-term Ecological Assessment and Restoration Network [...]
Climate change represents one of the most complex and unique challenges for natural resource management and poses an existential threat to sustaining the nation’s forests and grasslands. It is well documented that wildfires across [...]
A critical barrier to achieving forest restoration goals in the Southwest is a lack of capacity in the forest products industry. Expanding opportunities in the industry sector allows for an increase in acres restored, [...]
Catastrophic wildfire events impact communities, ecosystems, and cultural resources—and can pose ongoing hazards years after the fire is extinguished. Flash flooding and erosion from heavy rainstorms are postfire emergencies caused by the severe loss [...]
Researchers and ecologists at the Ecological Restoration Institute (ERI) conduct rapid ecological assessments, also referred to as RAPs, to quickly gather relevant scientific information on an ecosystem, forest type, or stand to aid land [...]
