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 …

Changes to the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity program map** production procedures and data products

JJ Picotte, K Bhattarai, D Howard, J Lecker, J Epting… - Fire Ecology, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Background The Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) program has been
providing the fire science community with large fire perimeter and burn severity data for the …

Exceptional variability in historical fire regimes across a western Cascades landscape, Oregon, USA

JD Johnston, MR Schmidt, AG Merschel… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Detailed information about the historical range of variability in wildfire activity informs
adaptation to future climate and disturbance regimes. Here, we describe one of the first …

[HTML][HTML] Small coastal marine protected areas offer recurring, seasonal protection to the common stingray (Dasyatis pastinaca)

S Kraft, AC Winkler, D Abecasis - Ocean & Coastal Management, 2023 - Elsevier
Marine protected areas (MPAs) are a crucial tool in safeguarding marine biodiversity.
However, elasmobranchs are often not the primary protection target of MPAs, and their …

Trade‐offs among management objectives in mature Douglas‐fir forests of the Pacific Northwest

NG Williams, MD Powers - Ecosphere, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Mature conifer‐dominated forests are an important component of the Pacific Northwest
landscape, and the conservation of species associated with late‐successional forests has …

[HTML][HTML] Disentangling effects of natural and anthropogenic drivers on forest net ecosystem production

YR Wang, N Buchmann, DO Hessen, F Stordal… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Net Ecosystem Production (NEP) of forests is the net carbon dioxide (CO 2) fluxes
between land and the atmosphere due to forests' biogeochemical processes. NEP varies …

Traditional summer habitat use by Southern Resident killer whales in the Salish Sea is linked to Fraser River Chinook salmon returns

JD Stewart, J Cogan, JW Durban… - Marine Mammal …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Southern Resident killer whales (SRKW, Orcinus orca) are a small, endangered population
of fish‐eating killer whales that inhabit coastal and inland waters of the western United …