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 [...]
Researchers at Northern Arizona University and the Ecological Restoration Institute are using drones, airplanes and state-of-the-art laser scanning technology to conduct forest assessments around C.C. Cragin Reservoir in northern Arizona. The researchers are partnering [...]
A new white paper by researchers Catrin Edgeley and Melanie Colavito titled, Local Experiences with the 2019 Museum Fire and Associated Flood Risk: A Survey of Flagstaff-Area Residents, details results from a survey administered [...]
Soils are the foundation of forest ecosystems. As author Dan Binkley says in the latest ERI working paper, “Forests and soils interact so strongly that any major change in one of them leads to [...]
As much of the Southwest US grapples with high temperatures and drought conditions this summer, a new white paper describes how those factors contribute to increased wildfire size, severity and frequency. The paper, “Wildfire [...]
After a national search, the Ecological Restoration Institute (ERI) at Northern Arizona University has named prominent quantitative forest ecologist and cutting-edge researcher Andrew Sánchez Meador as its new executive director. He replaces ERI founder [...]
