Search Results - "Hessburg, Paul F."

Wildfire and climate change adaptation of western North American forests: a case for intentional management by Hessburg, Paul F., Prichard, Susan J., Hagmann, R. Keala, Povak, Nicholas A., Lake, Frank K.

“…Forest landscapes across western North America (wNA) have experienced extensive changes over the last two centuries, while climatic warming has become a global…”
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The use of historical range and variability (HRV) in landscape management by Keane, Robert E., Hessburg, Paul F., Landres, Peter B., Swanson, Fred J.

“…This paper examines the past, present, and future use of the concept of historical range and variability (HRV) in land management. The history, central…”
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Wildfire and forest treatments mitigate—but cannot forestall—climate-driven changes in streamflow regimes in a western US mountain landscape by Furniss, Tucker J, Hessburg, Paul F, Churchill, Derek, Wigmosta, Mark, Povak, Nicholas, Duan, Zhuoran, Brion Salter, R

“…Warming temperatures and increasingly variable precipitation patterns are reducing winter snowpack and critical late-season streamflows. Here, we used two…”
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Wildfire severity and postfire salvage harvest effects on long‐term forest regeneration by Povak, Nicholas A., Churchill, Derek J., Cansler, C. Alina, Hessburg, Paul F., Kane, Van R., Kane, Jonathan T., Lutz, James A., Larson, Andrew J.

“…Following a wildfire, regeneration to forest can take decades to centuries and is no longer assured in many western U.S. environments given escalating wildfire…”
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Assessing impacts of sulfur deposition on aquatic ecosystems: A decision support system for the Southern Appalachians by Reynolds, Keith M., Hessburg, Paul F., Lakicevic, Milena, Povak, Nicholas A., Salter, R. Brion, Sullivan, Timothy J., McDonnell, Todd C., Cosby, Bernard J., Jackson, William

“…With climate change and ongoing impacts from human development and resource extraction, US federal land management agencies are acutely concerned with managing…”
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Informing climate adaptation strategies using ecological simulation models and spatial decision support tools by Furniss, Tucker J., Povak, Nicholas A., Hessburg, Paul F., Salter, R. Brion, Duan, Zhuoran, Wigmosta, Mark

“…Introduction: Forest landscapes offer resources and ecosystem services that are vital to the social, economic, and cultural well-being of human communities,…”
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Tamm Review: Shifting global fire regimes: Lessons from reburns and research needs by Prichard, Susan J., Stevens-Rumann, Camille S., Hessburg, Paul F.

“…•We reviewed published studies on reburns in fire-adapted ecosystems of the world.•Fire regimes often have shifted from frequent to infrequent fire return…”
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Evaluating Basin-Scale Forest Adaptation Scenarios: Wildfire, Streamflow, Biomass, and Economic Recovery Synergies and Trade-Offs by Povak, Nicholas A., Furniss, Tucker J., Hessburg, Paul F., Salter, R. Brion, Wigmosta, Mark, Duan, Zhuoran, LeFevre, Miles

“…Active forest management is applied in many parts of the western United States to reduce wildfire severity, mitigate vulnerability to drought and bark beetle…”
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Learning to coexist with wildfire by Moritz, Max A., Batllori, Enric, Bradstock, Ross A., Gill, A. Malcolm, Handmer, John, Hessburg, Paul F., Leonard, Justin, McCaffrey, Sarah, Odion, Dennis C., Schoennagel, Tania, Syphard, Alexandra D.

“…The impacts of escalating wildfire in many regions — the lives and homes lost, the expense of suppression and the damage to ecosystem services — necessitate a…”
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Adapting western North American forests to climate change and wildfires: 10 common questions by Prichard, Susan J., Hessburg, Paul F., Hagmann, R. Keala, Povak, Nicholas A., Dobrowski, Solomon Z., Hurteau, Matthew D., Kane, Van R., Keane, Robert E., Kobziar, Leda N., Kolden, Crystal A., North, Malcolm, Parks, Sean A., Safford, Hugh D., Stevens, Jens T., Yocom, Larissa L., Churchill, Derek J., Gray, Robert W., Huffman, David W., Lake, Frank K., Khatri-Chhetri, Pratima

“…We review science-based adaptation strategies for western North American (wNA) forests that include restoring active fire regimes and fostering resilient…”
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Restoring forest resilience: From reference spatial patterns to silvicultural prescriptions and monitoring by Churchill, Derek J., Larson, Andrew J., Dahlgreen, Matthew C., Franklin, Jerry F., Hessburg, Paul F., Lutz, James A.

“…► We quantified stand-level pattern in terms of individual trees, clumps, and openings. ► We used AET and Deficit to develop climate analog reference…”
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Previous wildfires and management treatments moderate subsequent fire severity by Cansler, C. Alina, Kane, Van R., Hessburg, Paul F., Kane, Jonathan T., Jeronimo, Sean M.A., Lutz, James A., Povak, Nicholas A., Churchill, Derek J., Larson, Andrew J.

“…Burn severity distributions for areas treated then burned (i.e., “treatment-fire”) and untreated burned controls. Density plots showing the frequency…”
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Tamm Review: Ecological principles to guide post-fire forest landscape management in the Inland Pacific and Northern Rocky Mountain regions by Larson, Andrew J., Jeronimo, Sean M.A., Hessburg, Paul F., Lutz, James A., Povak, Nicholas A., Cansler, C. Alina, Kane, Van R., Churchill, Derek J.

“…•Post-fire landscapes are today’s frontline of forest ecosystem change.•We develop principles and strategies for ecologically based post-fire…”
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Twenty-five years of the Northwest Forest Plan: what have we learned? by Spies, Thomas A, Long, Jonathan W, Charnley, Susan, Hessburg, Paul F, Marcot, Bruce G, Reeves, Gordon H, Lesmeister, Damon B, Reilly, Matthew J, Cerveny, Lee K, Stine, Peter A, Raphael, Martin G

“…The Northwest Forest Plan (NWFP) has guided the management of 17 federal forests in the US Pacific Northwest for the past 25 years. The existing management…”
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Restoring fire-prone Inland Pacific landscapes: seven core principles by Hessburg, Paul F, Churchill, Derek J, Larson, Andrew J, Haugo, Ryan D, Miller, Carol, Spies, Thomas A, North, Malcolm P, Povak, Nicholas A, Belote, R. Travis, Singleton, Peter H, Gaines, William L, Keane, Robert E, Aplet, Gregory H, Stephens, Scott L, Morgan, Penelope, Bisson, Peter A, Rieman, Bruce E, Salter, R. Brion, Reeves, Gordon H

“…CONTEXT: More than a century of forest and fire management of Inland Pacific landscapes has transformed their successional and disturbance dynamics. Regional…”
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Tamm Review: Management of mixed-severity fire regime forests in Oregon, Washington, and Northern California by Hessburg, Paul F., Spies, Thomas A., Perry, David A., Skinner, Carl N., Taylor, Alan H., Brown, Peter M., Stephens, Scott L., Larson, Andrew J., Churchill, Derek J., Povak, Nicholas A., Singleton, Peter H., McComb, Brenda, Zielinski, William J., Collins, Brandon M., Salter, R. Brion, Keane, John J., Franklin, Jerry F., Riegel, Greg

“…•Mixed severity fire regime forests have been strongly impacted by a century of management.•Current climate change and wildfire impacts are entwined with past…”
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Integrating ecosystem services modeling and efficiencies in decision-support models conceptualization for watershed management by Pascual, Adrián, Giardina, Christian P., Povak, Nicholas A., Hessburg, Paul F., Asner, Gregory P.

“…Decision-making resource stewardship models rely on statistical relationships between management actions and ecosystem services provisioning. The…”
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Blending Indigenous and western science: Quantifying cultural burning impacts in Karuk Aboriginal Territory by Greenler, Skye M., Lake, Frank K., Tripp, William, McCovey, Kathy, Tripp, Analisa, Hillman, Leaf G., Dunn, Christopher J., Prichard, Susan J., Hessburg, Paul F., Harling, Will, Bailey, John D.

“…The combined effects of Indigenous fire stewardship and lightning ignitions shaped historical fire regimes, landscape patterns, and available resources in many…”
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Predicting future patterns, processes, and their interactions: Benchmark calibration and validation procedures for forest landscape models by Furniss, Tucker J., Hessburg, Paul F., Povak, Nicholas A., Salter, R. Brion, Wigmosta, Mark S.

“…•Establishes consistent, generalizable standards for calibrating and validating LANDIS-II.•Initialization methods based on publicly available, full coverage…”
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Post-fire landscape evaluations in Eastern Washington, USA: Assessing the work of contemporary wildfires by Churchill, Derek J., Jeronimo, Sean M.A., Hessburg, Paul F., Cansler, C. Alina, Povak, Nicholas A., Kane, Van R., Lutz, James A., Larson, Andrew J.

“…•Moderate- and low-severity fire shifted closed- to open-canopy forest.•High- and moderate-severity fire restored patchworks of forest and…”
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