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 …

Tamm Review: Reforestation for resilience in dry western US forests

MP North, JT Stevens, DF Greene, M Coppoletta… - Forest Ecology and …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
The increasing frequency and severity of fire and drought events have negatively impacted
the capacity and success of reforestation efforts in many dry, western US forests. Challenges …

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 …

Forest restoration and fuels reduction: convergent or divergent?

SL Stephens, MA Battaglia, DJ Churchill… - Bioscience, 2021‏ - academic.oup.com
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 …

Evidence of fuels management and fire weather influencing fire severity in an extreme fire event

JM Lydersen, BM Collins, ML Brooks… - Ecological …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Following changes in vegetation structure and pattern, along with a changing climate, large
wildfire incidence has increased in forests throughout the western United States. Given this …

Fuel treatment effectiveness at the landscape scale: a systematic review of simulation studies comparing treatment scenarios in North America

JE Ott, FF Kilkenny, TB Jain - Fire Ecology, 2023‏ - Springer
Background The risk of destructive wildfire on fire-prone landscapes with excessive fuel
buildup has prompted the use of fuel reduction treatments to protect valued resources from …

[HTML][HTML] The economic value of fuel treatments: a review of the recent literature for fuel treatment planning

ME Hunter, MH Taylor - Forests, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
This review synthesizes the scientific literature on fuel treatment economics published since
2013 with a focus on its implications for land managers and policy makers. We review the …

Strategically placed landscape fuel treatments decrease fire severity and promote recovery in the northern Sierra Nevada

CL Tubbesing, DL Fry, GB Roller, BM Collins… - Forest Ecology and …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Strategically placed landscape area treatments (SPLATs) are landscape fuel reduction
treatments designed to reduce fire severity across an entire landscape with only a fraction 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 …

Optimizing prescribed fire allocation for managing fire risk in central Catalonia

FJ Alcasena, AA Ager, M Salis, MA Day… - Science of the total …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
We used spatial optimization to allocate and prioritize prescribed fire treatments in the fire-
prone Bages County, central Catalonia (northeastern Spain). The goal of this study was to …