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 …

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 …

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

Forest landscapes across western North America (wNA) have experienced extensive
changes over the last two centuries, while climatic warming has become a global reality over …

Changing disturbance regimes and climate can overcome forest ecosystem resilience.
Following high-severity fire, forest recovery may be compromised by lack of tree seed …

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 …

With the increasing frequency and severity of altered disturbance regimes in dry, western US
forests, treatments promoting resilience have become a management objective but have …

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 …

The 2020 fire season punctuated a decades-long trend of increased fire activity across the
western United States, nearly doubling the total area burned in the central Rocky Mountains …

Rapid urbanization has highlighted ecological problems in the metropolitan area, with
increasing landscape fragmentation and severe threats to ecosystem health (EH). Studying …