Abstract Background Wildfires in the Pacific Northwest (Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and
western Montana, USA) have been immense in recent years, capturing the attention of …

Background Wildfires, like many disturbances, can be catalysts for ecosystem change. Given
projected climate change, tree regeneration declines and ecosystem shifts following severe …

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 …

BACKGROUND Responding effectively to climate change requires urgent action to halt net
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and to adapt to changes that cannot be prevented. The …

Fire is an integral natural disturbance in the moist temperate forests of the Pacific Northwest
of the United States, but future changes remain uncertain. Fire regimes in this climatically …

Rising greenhouse gases are changing the Earth's climate and adversely affecting
ecosystems that currently provide a suite of invaluable benefits, from cleaning water to …

As the effects of climate change accumulate and intensify, resource managers juggle
existing goals and new mandates to operationalize adaptation. Fire managers contend with …

The Northwest Forest Plan (NWFP) has guided the management of 17 federal forests in the
US Pacific Northwest for the past 25 years. The existing management plans for these …

Climate change and a long legacy of fire suppression are leading to an increased
prevalence of 'mega‐disturbances' such as drought and wildfire in terrestrial ecosystems …

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 …