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 [...]
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 [...]
