Ecological restoration guided by historical reference conditions can increase resilience to climate change of southwestern US Ponderosa pine forests

MT Stoddard, JP Roccaforte, AJS Meador… - Forest Ecology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
opportunity to examine ecological effects of restoration treatments in a southwestern
ponderosa pine … fire in southwestern ponderosa pine forests generally maintained effectiveness …

Extent of recent fire-induced losses of ponderosa pine forests of Arizona and New Mexico, USA

AM Woolman, JD Coop, JD Shaw, J DeMarco - Forest Ecology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
… of US forestlands maintained by the US Forest Service. The … changes to southwestern
ponderosa pine forests associated … We also found challenges to using the understory species …

Widespread regeneration failure in ponderosa pine forests of the southwestern United States

MD Petrie, RM Hubbard, JB Bradford, TE Kolb… - Forest Ecology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
… To maintain consistency in our sampling across sites, we focused on characterizing the … or
personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. …

Using wildfire as a management strategy to restore resiliency to ponderosa pine forests in the southwestern United States

JD Young, AA Ager, AE Thode - Ecosphere, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
… the western United States presents multiple challenges to land … wildlife habitat and foraging
opportunities for goshawk and … structure by maintaining ponderosa pine basal area and …

Fire-catalyzed vegetation shifts in ponderosa pine and Douglas-fir forests of the western United States

KT Davis, PE Higuera, SZ Dobrowski… - Environmental …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
… aimed at maintaining ponderosa pine and Douglas-fir forests in the US … and Douglas-fir will
be challenging, if not impossible. … Crofutt for assistance with field and lab work. We thank the …

An ecological perspective on living with fire in ponderosa pine forests of Oregon and Washington: resistance, gone but not forgotten

AG Merschel, PA Beedlow, DC Shaw… - Trees, Forests and …, 2021 - Elsevier
… fire in maintaining resistance in ponderosa pine forests of … for the challenge of living with
fire in ponderosa pine forests of … and in the Klamath Mountains of southwest Oregon (Fig. 1). …

Natural regeneration responses to thinning and burning treatments in ponderosa pine forests and implications for restoration

TN Wasserman, AEM Waltz, JP Roccaforte… - Journal of Forestry …, 2022 - Springer
… context of the contemporary challenges and climate change, … fire will require maintaining
ponderosa pine overstory at … in tree density in western ponderosa pine forests leaves room for …

Tamm Review: Postfire landscape management in frequent-fire conifer forests of the southwestern United States

JT Stevens, CM Haffey, JD Coop, PJ Fornwalt… - Forest Ecology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
… Decisions to preserve or regenerate conifer forest on postfire … To address the multitude of
challenges to long-term resilience … Our focus is on ponderosa pine and mixed-conifer forests of …

Pyrosilviculture needed for landscape resilience of dry western United States forests

MP North, RA York, BM Collins, MD Hurteau… - … of Forestry, 2021 - academic.oup.com
western US, several forest types (ie, ponderosa pine, Jeffrey … ) and maintenance (blue) in
the Sierra National Forest's new forest … has succeeded in mitigating many wildfire challenges. …

Increases in understory plant cover and richness persist following restoration treatments in Pinus ponderosa forests

JD Springer, MT Stoddard, KC Rodman… - Journal of Applied …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
… gradient in ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) forests of the American Southwest, an
ecosystem that is broadly distributed and actively managed throughout the western United States. …