As we enter another active wildfire season in the Southwest, a new white paper by the Ecological Restoration Institute analyzes wildfire trends across the western US since 1950. The paper summarizes the conclusions of [...]
The US Forest Service’s Wood Innovations Grant program awarded the Ecological Restoration Institute’s Dr. Han-Sup Han a $260,000 grant to lead a Wood Utilization Team across three states focused on increasing forest restoration efforts [...]
To learn more about the effectiveness of managing wildfires to meet restoration goals, ecologists at the Ecological Restoration Institute have been working to better understand the ecological outcomes of wildfire applications and the conditions [...]
This month’s ERI Science Flash is a flash from the past. We are sharing a working paper on restoration and small mammals from 2010, because small mammals are important in forest ecosystems. They recycle [...]
The lack of markets for low-value woody biomass is one of the biggest barriers to accelerating the pace and scale of restoration treatments. A pilot project in Flagstaff tested the possibilities of shipping wood [...]
In 2008, the Coronado National Forest in southeastern Arizona invited the Ecological Restoration Institute (ERI) to collaborate on the Pinaleño Ecosystem Restoration Project. Together with the forest’s silviculturist, the ERI initiated a forest restoration [...]
Our new ERI white paper, written by researchers Bryce Esch and Amy Waltz, presents findings from an assessment of landscape monitoring plans developed by the 23 individual Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program(CFLRP) projects. The [...]
The use of remote sensing for assessing current forest conditions, treatment planning and project implementation has a long and extremely productive history in forestry and natural resource management. Over the past 20 years, managers [...]
It’s that time of year again where the weather and fuel conditions allow land management agencies to plan for and safely implement prescribed fire projects. However, not many people understand how this complex process [...]
In the highly departed fire-adapted forests of the Southwest, a forest ecosystem’s natural range of variability (NRV) reflects the evolutionary history of the system and its resiliency to disturbances and changes in climate over [...]
