Before the advent of intensive forest management and fire suppression, western North
American forests exhibited a naturally occurring resistance and resilience to wildfires and …

Climate, disturbance, vegetation response and their interaction are key factors in predicting
the distribution and function of ecosystems across landscapes. A range of factors, operating …

Many recent wildfires in ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa Lawson & C. Lawson)–
dominated forests of the western United States have burned more severely than historical …

Large, high-severity wildfires alter the physical and biological conditions that determine how
catchments retain and release nutrients and regulate streamwater quality. The short-term …

For millennia, natural disturbance regimes, including anthropogenic fire and hunting
practices, have led to forest regeneration patterns that created a diversity of forest lands …

Restoration treatments in dry forests of the western US often attempt silvicultural practices to
restore the historical characteristics of forest structure and fire behavior. However, it is …

Management practices since the late 19th century, including fire exclusion and harvesting,
have altered the structure of ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa Douglas ex P. Lawson & C …

In frequent‐fire forests, wildland fire acts as a self‐regulating process creating forest
structures that consist of a fine‐grained mosaic of isolated trees, tree groups of various sizes …

Recent shifts in global forest area highlight the importance of understanding the causes and
consequences of forest change. To examine the influence of several potential drivers of …

In response to large, severe wildfires in historically fire-adapted forests in the western US,
policy initiatives, such as the USDA Forest Service's Collaborative Forest Landscape …