The prevailing paradigm in the western US is that the increase in stand-replacing wildfires in
historically frequent-fire dry forests is due to unnatural fuel loads that have resulted from …

Ecosystems change in response to factors such as climate variability, invasions, and
wildfires. Most records used to assess such change are based on short-term ecological data …

In the last three decades, over 4.1 million hectares have burned in Arizona and New Mexico
and the largest fires in documented history have occurred in the past two decades. Changes …

We used a database capturing large wildfires (> 405 ha) in the western US to document
regional trends in fire occurrence, total fire area, fire size, and day of year of ignition for 1984 …

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 …

Tree-ring dating (dendrochronology) is a method of scientific dating based on the analysis of
tree-ring growth patterns. As author James Speer notes, trees are remarkable bioindicators …

In areas where fire regimes and forest structure have been dramatically altered, there is
increasing concern that contemporary fires have the potential to set forests on a positive …

Applied historical ecology is the use of historical knowledge in the management of
ecosystems. Historical perspectives increase our understanding of the dynamic nature of …

Prior research suggests that Indigenous fire management buffers climate influences on
wildfires, but it is unclear whether these benefits accrue across geographic scales. We use a …

The purpose of this paper is to promote a broad and flexible perspective on ecological
restoration of Southwestern (US) ponderosa pine forests. Ponderosa pine forests in the …