Fire Ecology

Changes in fuel loading and conifer mortality risk factors due to bark beetles and drought in California.

Often fires are managed to support or reduce the presence of specific plant species or sizes. FireStem is a computer model designed to aid fire managers in predicting tree mortality based on fire behavior and intensity.

Stand composition, health, and annual diameter growth were recorded and compared against climate patterns for the past 100 years.

Growth response of whitebark pine trees to thinning and prescribed burn treatments.

This research uses agent-based landscape forest modelling to explore synergies between wildfire and forest and fuels management to create fire resilient forests, conserve carbon, and reduce future high severity fire.

Effects of new restoration technique called Daylighting is evaluated on various whitebark pine stands in the Northern Rocky Mountains.

Evaluating the ecological benefits of wildfire by integrating fire and ecosystem simulation models

Evaluating effects of various prescribed burning and silvicultural techniques used for restoring whitebark pine ecosystems (RWPE)

Assessing ponderosa pine mortality in the Bob Marshall Wilderness Area after successive fires Over 14 Years

Development of the tools, protocols, methods, and data products for the National LANDFIRE Project.

Fires are widespread in prairies globally. Fire often perpetuates grasslands by counteracting tree encroachment, yet there is often little record of this fire preserved in the grasslands.

We are creating tools to inform post-fire decisions that predict post-fire growth rates and mortality levels due to fire alone or fire+beetle for ponderosa pine (PP) and Douglas-fir (DF). The models in the tools will account for tree size, fire injury, site productivity, changes in competition, and beetle pressure. The project will also validate and update current FVS post-fire growth predictions.

Mortality reconsidered: Testing and extending models of fire–induced tree mortality across the United States

Grand fir and western hemlock mortality and regeneration dynamics after wildfire and salvage.

Lodgepole pine-dominated forest is the third most extensive forest type in western North America, covering 15 million acres in the western United States.

LANDFIRE After Action Review and Scoping In Preparation for Comprehensive Remapping

The ecological, economic and health and safety concerns surrounding wildland fires are driving the need to better understand climate-fire interactions.

Characterizing Information on Fire and Invasive Plants

Physiological Drivers of the ‘Spring Dip’ in Red Pine and Jack Pine Foliar Moisture Content and Its Relationship to Crown Fire in the Great Lakes

Describing and Scaling Physio-chemical Properties of Live and Dead Fuels to Parameterize Physics-based Fire Behavior Models

Using STANDFIRE to test whether fuel treatments are effective in changing fire behavior

Quantifying the Potential Effects of Mountain Pine Beetle on Wildland Fire Behavior

Mitigating old tree mortality in long-unburned, fire-dependent forests