Indigenous communities in the Pacific West of North America have long depended on fire to
steward their environments, and they are increasingly asserting the importance of cultural …

A significant increase in treatment pace and scale is needed to restore dry western US forest
resilience owing to increasingly frequent and severe wildfire and drought. We propose a …

Background Pre-fire fuels, topography, and weather influence wildfire behaviour and fire-
driven ecosystem carbon loss. However, the pre-fire characteristics that contribute to fire …

We used a prescribed fire study to demonstrate the concept of pyrosilviculture, defined here
as (i) using prescribed fire to meet management objectives or (ii) altering nonfire silvicultural …

Rapid environmental changes challenge the resilience of wildlands. The western portion of
the Lake Tahoe Basin in California is an important ecological and cultural hotspot that is at …

Smoke from wildfires has become a growing public health issue around the world but
especially in western North America and California. At the same time, managers and …

Young, planted forests are particularly vulnerable to wildfire. High severity effects in planted
forests translate to the loss of previous reforestation investments and the loss of future …

In dry, productive forests where historically infrequent high-severity fires are now common,
new silvicultural systems will be needed to better align management activity with the …

A significant expansion of prescribed fire activity will be necessary to mitigate growing
wildfire hazard in California forests. Forest managers can facilitate this expansion by …

Prescribed burning is an effective treatment to reduce the risk of very severe wildfires. Many
forests, however, are ill-suited for prescribed fire, because of high fuel loads, high tree …