Background The risk of destructive wildfire on fire-prone landscapes with excessive fuel
buildup has prompted the use of fuel reduction treatments to protect valued resources from …

Increased understanding of how mechanical thinning, prescribed burning, and wildfire affect
subsequent wildfire severity is urgently needed as people and forests face a growing wildfire …

Recently burned boreal forests have lower aboveground fuel loads, generating a negative
feedback to subsequent wildfires. Despite this feedback, short‐interval reburns (≤ 20 years …

Fuel treatments are commonly applied to increase resilience to wildfire in dry and historically
frequent-fire forests of western North America. The long-term effects of fuel treatments on …

Wildfire occurrences have increased and are projected to continue increasing globally.
Strategic, evidence-based planning with diverse stakeholders, making use of diverse …

Risks associated with severe wildfire are growing in forest landscapes due to interactions
among climate change, fuel accumulation from fire suppression, an expanding wildland …

Background Sagebrush shrublands in the Great Basin, USA, are experiencing widespread
increases in wildfire size and area burned resulting in new policies and funding to …

Climate change is resulting in larger, more frequent, and more severe wildfires which have
increasingly negative impacts on people and the environment. Under these circumstances, it …

Abstract The USDA Forest Service recently launched a Wildfire Crisis Strategy outlining
objectives to safeguard communities and other values at risk by substantially increasing the …

Assessing the effectiveness and measuring the performance of fuel treatments and other
wildfire risk mitigation efforts are challenging endeavors. Perhaps the most complicated is …