We review science‐based adaptation strategies for western North American (wNA) forests
that include restoring active fire regimes and fostering resilient structure and composition of …

Mega‐fires are often defined according to their size and intensity but are more accurately
described by their socioeconomic impacts. Three factors–climate change, fire exclusion, and …

Implementation of wildfire‐and climate‐adaptation strategies in seasonally dry forests of
western North America is impeded by numerous constraints and uncertainties. After more …

Energy from biomass plays a large and growing role in the global energy system. Energy
from biomass can make significant contributions to reducing carbon emissions, especially …

Wildfires across western North America have increased in number and size over the past
three decades, and this trend will continue in response to further warming. As a …

For over 20 years, forest fuel reduction has been the dominant management action in
western US forests. These same actions have also been associated with the restoration of …

Forest thinning can significantly affect hydrological processes. However, these effects
largely vary with forest types, climate, thinning intensity, and hydrological variables of …

Across the globe, rising temperatures and altered precipitation patterns have caused
persistent regional droughts, lengthened fire seasons, and increased the number of weather …

Context More than a century of forest and fire management of Inland Pacific landscapes has
transformed their successional and disturbance dynamics. Regional connectivity of many …

The prevailing paradigm in the western US is that the increase in stand-replacing wildfires in
historically frequent-fire dry forests is due to unnatural fuel loads that have resulted from …