Abstract Purpose of Review Science plays a critical role in natural resource management,
and the use of science in decision-making is mandated by several policy initiatives. Other …

Recent literature has highlighted the growing array of scale mismatches in environmental
governance and offered policy design principles for improved governance approaches. A …

Collaborative governance and landscape approaches have become a more prevalent in
public land management in the United States in the face of increasing ecological and …

In response to large, severe wildfires in historically fire-adapted forests in the western US,
policy initiatives, such as the USDA Forest Service's Collaborative Forest Landscape …

Public land and natural resource management policies in the United States commonly
require the use of “best available science information”(BASI) in planning and implementing …

Wildfires are increasingly impacting social and environmental systems in the United States
(US). The ability to mitigate the adverse effects of wildfires increases with understanding of …

Context Several initiatives seek to increase the pace and scale of dry forest restoration and
fuels reduction to enhance forest resilience to wildfire and other stressors while improving …

Collaborative governance is commonly viewed as an alternative venue for government
agencies to deliver public services, provide public goods, and develop policy …

There is increasing interest in better understanding resilience in forest and fire management
but a great deal of uncertainty about the characteristics of resilient systems. This presents an …

Ecological restoration seeks to modify current conditions to more closely approximate
conditions deemed to be more desirable within a given landscape. While substantial …