Mature forests provide important wildlife habitat and support critical ecosystem functions
globally. Within the dry conifer forests of the western United States, past management and …

Wildfire and postfire salvage logging are major drivers of forest succession in western North
America. Although postfire landscapes support a variety of carnivore species, it is unclear …

Many wildlife species have sex specific habitat requirements. Due to the unique
requirements for birthing and raising offspring, female reproductive habitat is often a limiting …

A recent climate-induced tree mortality event in California, USA has led to dramatic
landscape-level changes in the southern Sierra Nevada. Wide-spread conifer mortality was …

Post-fire harvest (PFH) is a forest management practice designed to salvage value from
burned timber, mitigate safety hazards from dead trees, reduce long-term fuels, and prepare …

Anthropogenic activities can profoundly affect ecological communities. This is true of the
most ubiquitous type of anthropogenic land-use, livestock grazing. While livestock grazing is …

The consumption of an astounding one million acres resulted from California's largest single
fire to date, the 2021 Dixie Fire. The social and economic losses associated with the fire …

Abstract The Humboldt marten (Martes caurina humboldtensis) is a species facing
conservation concern in Oregon and California. Historical populations were subjected to …

Background The health of the forests in the western United States has been negatively
affected by global warming in recent decades (Keen et al., 2021). The impact of this trend …