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Wildfire and climate change adaptation of western North American forests: a case for intentional management von 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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Evaluating climate change impacts on ecosystem resources through the lens of climate analogs von Povak, Nicholas A., Manley, Patricia N.

“… As disturbances continue to increase in magnitude and severity under climate change, there is an urgency to develop climate-informed management solutions to …”
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Quantitative methods for integrating climate adaptation strategies into spatial decision support models von Povak, Nicholas A., Manley, Patricia N., Wilson, Kristen N.

“… With the onset of rapid climate change and the legacy of past forest management and fire suppression policies, the capacity for forested landscapes to maintain …”
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Wildfire severity and postfire salvage harvest effects on long‐term forest regeneration von 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 von 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 von 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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Evaluating Basin-Scale Forest Adaptation Scenarios: Wildfire, Streamflow, Biomass, and Economic Recovery Synergies and Trade-Offs von 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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Fuel treatment effectiveness in the context of landform, vegetation, and large, wind-driven wildfires von Prichard, Susan J., Povak, Nicholas A., Kennedy, Maureen C., Peterson, David W.

“… Large wildfires (>50,000 ha) are becoming increasingly common in semiarid landscapes of the western United States. Although fuel reduction treatments are used …”
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Thinning and prescribed fire effects on overstory tree and snag structure in dry coniferous forests of the interior Pacific Northwest von Harrod, Richy J., Peterson, David W., Povak, Nicholas A., Dodson, Erich K.

“… Forest thinning and prescribed fires are practices used by managers to address concerns over ecosystem degradation and severe wildland fire potential in dry …”
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Adapting western North American forests to climate change and wildfires: 10 common questions von 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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Previous wildfires and management treatments moderate subsequent fire severity von 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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Evidence of fuels management and fire weather influencing fire severity in an extreme fire event von Lydersen, Jamie M., Collins, Brandon M., Brooks, Matthew L., Matchett, John R., Shive, Kristen L., Povak, Nicholas A., Kane, Van R., Smith, Douglas F.

“… Following changes in vegetation structure and pattern, along with a changing climate, large wildfire incidence has increased in forests throughout the western …”
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Tamm Review: Ecological principles to guide post-fire forest landscape management in the Inland Pacific and Northern Rocky Mountain regions von 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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Mixed severity fire effects within the Rim fire: Relative importance of local climate, fire weather, topography, and forest structure von Kane, Van R., Cansler, C. Alina, Povak, Nicholas A., Kane, Jonathan T., McGaughey, Robert J., Lutz, James A., Churchill, Derek J., North, Malcolm P.

“… •Examined importance of controls on mixed-severity burn patterns.•Biophysical environment and fire history best explained burn severity patterns.•Spatial …”
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Multi-scaled drivers of severity patterns vary across land ownerships for the 2013 Rim Fire, California von Povak, Nicholas A., Kane, Van R., Collins, Brandon M., Lydersen, Jamie M., Kane, Jonathan T.

“… Context As the frequency of large, severe fires increases, detecting the drivers of spatial fire severity patterns is key to predicting controls provided by …”
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Restoring fire-prone Inland Pacific landscapes: seven core principles von 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 von 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 von 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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Managing for biodiversity: The effects of climate, management and natural disturbance on wildlife species richness von Zeller, Katherine A., Povak, Nicholas A., Manley, Patricia, Flake, Samuel W., Hefty, Kira L.

“… AimManagers are increasingly facing an uncertain future given changing climates and ecological trajectories. The interacting effects of climate, natural …”
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Water balance and topography predict fire and forest structure patterns von Kane, Van R., Lutz, James A., Alina Cansler, C., Povak, Nicholas A., Churchill, Derek J., Smith, Douglas F., Kane, Jonathan T., North, Malcolm P.

“… •Examined effects of the mountainous environmental mosaic in Yosemite, USA.•Examined environment effects on fire number, burn severity, and forest …”
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