Increasing home development in wildfire-prone areas, coupled with climate change, are exacerbating wildfire risks to many …
Wildfire Trends Across the Western US: Forest Fires Have Increased in Size, Severity, and Frequency Across Western Forests
Wildfires have increased in size, severity, and frequency in most western forests over the last three decades, as demonstrated by …
Federal wildfire policy and the legacy of suppression
Federal wildfire policy that emphasizes suppression—a legacy of early-1900s forest management—has resulted in a paradox: …
Continue Reading about Federal wildfire policy and the legacy of suppression
Preserving the Pine Ridge
Catastrophic wildfires have ravaged more than half of northwestern Nebraska’s pine forests. Land managers are making strides …
Conversations about Conversions: Perspectives of Disturbance-Driven Change
From authors Jill M. Young and Jonathan D. Coop - School of Environment & Sustainability, Western Colorado University:Changing …
Continue Reading about Conversations about Conversions: Perspectives of Disturbance-Driven Change
Community Adaptation, Landscape Resilience and Safe Responses for COVID-19
Click here to read the article from Fire Adapted Colorado. …
Continue Reading about Community Adaptation, Landscape Resilience and Safe Responses for COVID-19
The Pinaleño Ecological Restoration Project and Demonstration Unit: Effects of Restoration Treatment and Wildfire in a Mixed-Conifer Forest
This report briefly summarizes early restoration demonstration work on the Coronado National Forest (2008-2009), results from …
How the Natural Range of Variability of Frequent-Fire Forests Informs Restoration Treatments
This one-page topics paper is written for the general public and describes how a forest’s natural range of variability can inform …