As California expands its prescribed burning efforts, a study of more than 180 such projects suggests they are an effective way to reduce a blaze's intensity and smoke

In a tropical agricultural landscape, conserving strips of secondary forests along streams had a positive impact on tree recruitment in young regrowing forests. Surprisingly, this effect persisted ev...

Aim Increasing aridity has driven widespread synchronous fire occurrence in recent decades across North America. The lack of historical (pre-1880) fire records limits our ability to understand long-...

Nearly 80% of wildfires in New Mexico are caused by human activity. While we can’t control lightning strikes, we can take proactive steps to reduce the number of fires sparked

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In 2024, wildfires burned a record number of forests participating in California's forest offset program, exposing the danger of relying on forests to slow climate change. While California maintains ....

Interruption of frequent burning in dry forests across western North America and the continued impacts of anthropogenic climate change have resulted in increases in fire size and severity compared to....

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As disturbance regimes change in response to anthropogenic activities, ecosystem resilience is critically important to the persistence of biodiversity…

A memorandum of understanding signed Nov. 1 will preserve and maintain tribal access to sites across the Caja del Rio Plateau.

Changing climate and its interaction with disturbances is reshaping forests of the western United States and southwestern forests are experiencing the…

Written by Rachel Swanwick This past summer, the Forest Stewards Guild partnered with The Nature Conservancy to launch the NextGen Forest Program – a summer apprenticeship that supports training and…

Contemporary fires are less frequent than those occurring in the past, but their severity results in higher tree mortality, based on a comparison of historical and contemporary fire severity using den...