Adapting western North American forests to climate change and wildfires: 10 common questions

SJ Prichard, PF Hessburg, RK Hagmann… - Ecological …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Tamm review: A meta-analysis of thinning, prescribed fire, and wildfire effects on subsequent wildfire severity in conifer dominated forests of the Western US

KT Davis, J Peeler, J Fargione, RD Haugo… - Forest Ecology and …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Increased understanding of how mechanical thinning, prescribed burning, and wildfire affect
subsequent wildfire severity is urgently needed as people and forests face a growing wildfire …

The 2020 California fire season: A year like no other, a return to the past or a harbinger of the future?

HD Safford, AK Paulson, ZL Steel… - Global Ecology and …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Aim Wildfire burned area, fire size, fire severity and the ecological and socio‐economic
impacts of fire have been increasing rapidly in California in recent decades. We summarize …

Wildfire, smoke exposure, human health, and environmental justice need to be integrated into forest restoration and management

SM D'Evelyn, J Jung, E Alvarado… - Current environmental …, 2022‏ - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Increasing wildfire size and severity across the western United
States has created an environmental and social crisis that must be approached from a …

Pyrosilviculture needed for landscape resilience of dry western United States forests

MP North, RA York, BM Collins, MD Hurteau… - Journal of …, 2021‏ - academic.oup.com
A significant increase in treatment pace and scale is needed to restore dry western US forest
resilience owing to increasingly frequent and severe wildfire and drought. We propose a …

Climate, environment, and disturbance history govern resilience of western North American forests

PF Hessburg, CL Miller, SA Parks, NA Povak… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2019‏ - frontiersin.org
Before the advent of intensive forest management and fire suppression, western North
American forests exhibited a naturally occurring resistance and resilience to wildfires and …

Mega‐disturbances cause rapid decline of mature conifer forest habitat in California

ZL Steel, GM Jones, BM Collins, R Green… - Ecological …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Mature forests provide important wildlife habitat and support critical ecosystem functions
globally. Within the dry conifer forests of the western United States, past management and …

Forest restoration and fuels reduction work: Different pathways for achieving success in the S ierra N evada

SL Stephens, DE Foster, JJ Battles… - Ecological …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Fire suppression and past selective logging of large trees have fundamentally changed
frequent‐fire‐adapted forests in California. The culmination of these changes produced …

Cascadia Burning: The historic, but not historically unprecedented, 2020 wildfires in the Pacific Northwest, USA

MJ Reilly, A Zuspan, JS Halofsky, C Raymond… - …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Wildfires devastated communities in Oregon and Washington in September 2020, burning
almost as much forest west of the Cascade Mountain crest (“the westside”) in 2 weeks …

Fire and climate change: conserving seasonally dry forests is still possible

SL Stephens, ALR Westerling… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
The destructive wildfires that occurred recently in the western US starkly foreshadow the
possible future of forest ecosystems and human communities in the region. With increases in …