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 …

Tamm Review: Management of mixed-severity fire regime forests in Oregon, Washington, and Northern California

PF Hessburg, TA Spies, DA Perry, CN Skinner… - Forest Ecology and …, 2016 - Elsevier
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 …

Terrestrial carbon dynamics in an era of increasing wildfire

T Hudiburg, J Mathias, K Bartowitz, DM Berardi… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
In an increasingly flammable world, wildfire is altering the terrestrial carbon balance.
However, the degree to which novel wildfire regimes disrupt biological function remains …

Uncertainty and risk in wildland fire management: a review

MP Thompson, DE Calkin - Journal of environmental management, 2011 - Elsevier
Wildland fire management is subject to manifold sources of uncertainty. Beyond the
unpredictability of wildfire behavior, uncertainty stems from inaccurate/missing data, limited …

Forest biogeochemistry in response to drought

WH Schlesinger, MC Dietze, RB Jackson… - Global change …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Trees alter their use and allocation of nutrients in response to drought, and changes in soil
nutrient cycling and trace gas flux (N2O and CH 4) are observed when experimental drought …

Global potential of biospheric carbon management for climate mitigation

JG Canadell, ED Schulze - Nature communications, 2014 - nature.com
Elevated concentrations of atmospheric greenhouse gases (GHGs), particularly carbon
dioxide (CO2), have affected the global climate. Land-based biological carbon mitigation …

Climate change, fire management, and ecological services in the southwestern US

MD Hurteau, JB Bradford, PZ Fulé, AH Taylor… - Forest Ecology and …, 2014 - Elsevier
The diverse forest types of the southwestern US are inseparable from fire. Across climate
zones in California, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico, fire suppression has left many forest …

Fuel treatment effectiveness in California yellow pine and mixed conifer forests

HD Safford, JT Stevens, K Merriam, MD Meyer… - Forest Ecology and …, 2012 - Elsevier
We assessed the effectiveness of forest fuel thinning projects that explicitly removed surface
and ladder fuels (all but one were combined mechanical and prescribed fire/pile burn …

Historical and current landscape‐scale ponderosa pine and mixed conifer forest structure in the Southern Sierra Nevada

SL Stephens, JM Lydersen, BM Collins, DL Fry… - …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Many managers today are tasked with restoring forests to mitigate the potential for
uncharacteristically severe fire. One challenge to this mandate is the lack of large‐scale …

Managing forests because carbon matters: integrating energy, products, and land management policy

RW Malmsheimer, JL Bowyer, JS Fried… - Journal of Forestry …, 2011 - research.fs.usda.gov
Abstract The United States needs many different types of forests: some managed for wood
products plus other benefits, and some managed for nonconsumptive uses and benefits …