Restoring fire-prone Inland Pacific landscapes: seven core principles

PF Hessburg, DJ Churchill, AJ Larson, RD Haugo… - Landscape …, 2015 - Springer
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 …

Tamm Review: Management of mixed-severity fire regime forests in Oregon, Washington, and Northern California

PF Hessburg, TA Spies, DA Perry, CN Skinner… - Forest Ecology and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Increasingly, objectives for forests with moderate-or mixed-severity fire regimes are to
restore successionally diverse landscapes that are resistant and resilient to current and …

Evidence for widespread changes in the structure, composition, and fire regimes of western North American forests

RK Hagmann, PF Hessburg, SJ Prichard… - Ecological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Implementation of wildfire‐and climate‐adaptation strategies in seasonally dry forests of
western North America is impeded by numerous constraints and uncertainties. After more …

Dry forests and wildland fires of the inland Northwest USA: contrasting the landscape ecology of the pre-settlement and modern eras

PF Hessburg, JK Agee, JF Franklin - Forest Ecology and management, 2005 - Elsevier
Prior to Euro–American settlement, dry ponderosa pine and mixed conifer forests (hereafter,
the “dry forests”) of the Inland Northwest were burned by frequent low-or mixed-severity fires …

Map** wildland fuels for fire management across multiple scales: Integrating remote sensing, GIS, and biophysical modeling

RE Keane, R Burgan… - International Journal of …, 2001 - CSIRO Publishing
International Journal of Wildland Fire Page 1 P ublishing Address manuscripts and editorial
enquiries to: International Journal of Wildland Fire Editor in Chief Dr Gwynfor Richards …

An environmental narrative of inland northwest United States forests, 1800–2000

PF Hessburg, JK Agee - Forest Ecology and Management, 2003 - Elsevier
Fire was arguably the most important forest and rangeland disturbance process in the Inland
Northwest United States for millennia. Prior to the Lewis and Clark expedition, fire regimes …

Conserving old‐growth forest diversity in disturbance‐prone landscapes

TA Spies, MA Hemstrom, A Youngblood… - Conservation …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
A decade after its creation, the Northwest Forest Plan is contributing to the conservation of
old‐growth forests on federal land. However, the success and outlook for the plan are …

Recent changes (1930s–1990s) in spatial patterns of interior northwest forests, USA

PF Hessburg, BG Smith, RB Salter, RD Ottmar… - Forest Ecology and …, 2000 - Elsevier
We characterized recent historical and current vegetation composition and structure of a
representative sample of subwatersheds on all ownerships within the interior Columbia …

Detecting change in forest spatial patterns from reference conditions

PF Hessburg, BG Smith, RB Salter - Ecological applications, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
Timber harvest, fire suppression, road construction, and domestic livestock grazing have
transformed spatial patterns of Interior Northwest forests. As a consequence, parameters of …

System-level feedbacks of active fire regimes in large landscapes

NA Povak, PF Hessburg, RB Salter, RW Gray… - Fire Ecology, 2023 - Springer
Background Climate is a main driver of fire regimes, but recurrent fires provide stabilizing
feedbacks at several spatial scales that can limit fire spread and severity—potentially …