"This issue of Two More Chains reflects a year that tested us in the wildlandfire community in new, familiar, and sobering ways. …
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Wildfire research and mental health: impacts, reflections, and a call to action
"We highlight the mental health risks of conducting wildfire research, in which both direct and secondary traumatic experiences …
What determines the effectiveness of Pinyon-Juniper clearing treatments? Evidence from the remote sensing archive and counter-factual scenarios
"Here, we evaluated PJ reduction treatment outcomes leveraging large, curated databases of land treatments, new remotely sensed …
Vulnerability of different Colorado plateau land types to drivers of change
"We assess management-relevant drivers of change—aridification, livestock grazing, invasive species, surface disturbance, and …
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Mapping ecological states in the upper Colorado River basin: implications for fire management
"We aimed to quantify ecological dynamics of two ES groups in the Upper Colorado River Basin from 1986 to 2022 through annual maps …
Mapping predicted ecological states at landscape scales using remote-sensing data and machine learning
"Here, we extend these frameworks to larger landscapes with a machine learning approach that integrates large-scale, …
Quantifying Regional Ecological Dynamics Using Agency Monitoring Data, Ecological Site Descriptions, and Ecological Site Groups
"Here, we demonstrate a new repeatable workflow for developing data-driven STMs in the United States (US)." Read HERE …
A Quantitative Soil-Geomorphic Framework for Developing and Mapping Ecological Site Groups
"This study examines ESDs in the diverse Upper Colorado River region, where ESDs are only partially complete, to look at …