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 …

Forests characterized by mixed-severity fires occupy a broad moisture gradient between
lower elevation forests typified by low-severity fires and higher elevation forests in which …

Stand-level spatial pattern influences key aspects of resilience and ecosystem function such
as disturbance behavior, regeneration, snow retention, and habitat quality in frequent-fire …

With the accumulating evidence of changing disturbance regimes becoming increasingly
obvious, there is potential for disturbance ecology to become the most valuable lens through …

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 …

Post-fire landscapes are the frontline of forest ecosystem change. As such, they represent
opportunities to foster conditions that are better adapted to future climate and wildfires with …

For some time, ecologists have known that spatial patterns of forest structure reflected
disturbance and recovery history, disturbance severity and underlying influences of …

Land managers in the western US are beginning to understand that early 20th century
forests displayed complex patterns of composition and structure at several different spatial …

In this chapter, we examine the scientific basis of the assumptions, management strategies,
and goals of the Northwest Forest Plan (NWFP, or Plan) relative to the ecology of old-growth …

Ecological forestry is based on the idea that forest patterns and processes are more likely to
persist if harvest strategies produce stand structures, return intervals, and severities similar …