Publications Library
Heading and backing fire behaviours mediate the influence of fuels on wildfire energy. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 2023. Available at: https://www.publish.csiro.au/WF/WF22010.
Birch et al_2023_heading and backing fire behavior.pdf (2.46 MB)

High-severity burned area and proportion exceed historic conditions in Sierra Nevada, California, and adjacent ranges. Ecosphere. 2023;14(1).
Ecosphere - 2023 - Williams - High‐severity burned area and proportion exceed historic conditions in Sierra Nevada .pdf (1.96 MB)
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High-severity fire drives persistent floristic homogenization in human-altered forests. Ecosphere. 2023.
Ecosphere - 2023 - Weeks - High‐severity fire drives persistent floristic homogenization in human‐altered forests.pdf (1.33 MB)
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Homeowner firewise behaviors in fire-prone central Oregon: An exploration of the attitudinal, situational, and cultural worldviews impacting pre-fire mitigation actions Author links open overlay panel. Journal of Environmental Management. 2023;327.
. How social and ecological characteristics shape transaction costs in polycentric wildfire governance: insights from the Sequoia-Kings Canyon Ecosystem, California, USA. Ecology and Society . 2023;28(1). Available at: https://ecologyandsociety.org/vol28/iss1/art34/.
How social and ecological characteristics shape transaction costs in polycentric wildfire governance- insights from the Sequoia-Kings Canyon Ecosystem, California, USA.pdf (971.08 KB)

Human and climatic influences on wildfires ignited by recreational activities in national forests in Washington, Oregon, and California. Environmental Research Communications. 2023;5.
Jenkins_2023_Environ._Res._Commun._5_095002.pdf (1.19 MB)
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Human- and lightning-caused wildland fire ignition clusters in British Columbia, Canada. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 2022;31(11). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1071/WF21177.
Coogan et al_2022_IJWF_Human and Lightning caused wildland fire ignition clusters in BC Canada.pdf (10.13 MB)
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Hazards of Risk: Identifying Plausible Community Wildfire Disasters in Low-Frequency Fire Regimes. forests. 2021;12(7).
. High-severity wildfire reduces richness and alters composition of ectomycorrhizal fungi in low-severity adapted ponderosa pine forests. Forest Ecology and Management. 2021;485.
pnw_2021_pulido-chavez001.pdf (1.77 MB)
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Historical Fire and Ventenata dubia Invasion in a Temperate Grassland. Rangeland Ecology & Management. 2021;75.
Historical Fire and Ventenata dubia Invasion in a Temperate Grassland.pdf (735.31 KB)

High‐severity wildfire leads to multi‐decadal impacts on soil biogeochemistry in mixed‐conifer forests Ecological Applications. 2020;e02072.
. The hot-dry-windy index: A new tool for forecasting fire weather. Portland: USDA Forest Service PNW Research Station; 2020. Available at: https://www.fs.usda.gov/pnw/ .
scifi227.pdf (2.74 MB)

How does tree regeneration respond to mixed‐severity fire in the western Oregon Cascades, USA? Ecosphere. 2020;11(1).
. How to measure the economic health cost of wildfires – A systematic review of the literature for northern America. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 2020;29.
pnw_2020_dittrich001.pdf (290.7 KB)
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High-severity fire: Evaluating its key drivers and mapping its probability across western US forests Environmental Research Letters. 2018;13. Available at: https://www.fs.fed.us/rmrs/publications/high-severity-fire-evaluating-its-key-drivers-and-mapping-its-probability-across.
. How does forest recovery following moderate-severity fire influence effects of subsequent wildfire in mixed-conifer forests? Fire Ecology. 2018;14(3).
. Human-related ignitions concurrent with high winds promote large wildfires across the USA International Journal of Wildland Fire. 2018;Online early.
. Health benefits and costs of filtration interventions that reduce indoor exposure to PM2.5 during wildfires. International Journal of Indoor Environment and Health. 2017;27(1).
. The hierarchy of predictability in ecological restoration: are vegetation structure and functional diversity more predictable than community composition? Journal of Applied Ecology. 2017;54(4).
. Historical Fire–Climate Relationships in Contrasting Interior Pacific Northwest Forest Types Fire Ecology. 2017;13(2).
. Historical perspective on the influence of wildfire policy, law, and informal institutions on management and forest resilience in a multiownership, frequent-fire, coupled human and natural system in Oregon, USA Ecology and Society. 2017;22(3).
. How to generate and interpret fire characteristics charts for the U.S. fire danger rating system. ( ). Fort Collins: Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station; 2017:62 p. Available at: https://www.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/pubs/54597.
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