Forests occupy 22.6 million acres in Colorado, or 32 percent of the land area, and nearly
three-quarters of the forest lands in Colorado are in public ownership. About 55 percent of …

Forest fires-affected landscapes enhance sudden runoff discharges, high sediment loads
and extreme soil erosion rates. Different soil stabilisation treatments, such as mulching, can …

Aim Forest restoration in ponderosa pine and mixed ponderosa pine–Douglas fir forests in
the US Rocky Mountains has been highly influenced by a historical model of frequent, low …

Management practices since the late 19th century, including fire exclusion and harvesting,
have altered the structure of ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa Douglas ex P. Lawson & C …

“Awareness and understanding of disturbance ecology and the role disturbance plays in
ecosystem dynamics... is essential in understanding the consequences of management …

Montane coniferous forests and woodlands in the Front Range of the Colorado Rocky
Mountains have been subject to increased wildfire in recent years. The area and intensity of …

While the commitment to protect and restore forest ecosystems has become a policy goal in
many countries since the Rio Conference, there is still no general consensus on what …

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 …

The premise behind many projects aimed at wildfire hazard reduction and ecological
restoration in forests of the western United States is the idea that unnatural fuel buildup has …

Understanding the changes in physicochemical and microbiological soil properties induced
by straw soil mulching is very important in the Mediterranean environment, where forest …