The prevailing paradigm in the western US is that the increase in stand-replacing wildfires in
historically frequent-fire dry forests is due to unnatural fuel loads that have resulted from …

Increasingly, objectives for forests with moderate-or mixed-severity fire regimes are to
restore successionally diverse landscapes that are resistant and resilient to current and …

A significant increase in treatment pace and scale is needed to restore dry western US forest
resilience owing to increasingly frequent and severe wildfire and drought. We propose a …

Mature forests provide important wildlife habitat and support critical ecosystem functions
globally. Within the dry conifer forests of the western United States, past management and …

Current US forest fire policy emphasizes short‐term outcomes versus long‐term goals. This
perspective drives managers to focus on the protection of high‐valued resources, whether …

Increasingly frequent “megafires” in North America's dry forests have prompted proposals to
restore historical fire regimes and ecosystem resilience. Restoration efforts that reduce tree …

Climate change and fire suppression have altered disturbance regimes in forest ecosystems
globally. In the seasonally dry forests of western North America, large‐scale restoration may …

Restoration of western dry forests in the USA often focuses on reducing fuel loads. In the
range of the spotted owl, these treatments may reduce canopy cover and tree density, which …

Context Climate and land-use change have led to disturbance regimes in many ecosystems
without a historical analog, leading to uncertainty about how species adapted to past …

Background The risk of destructive wildfire on fire-prone landscapes with excessive fuel
buildup has prompted the use of fuel reduction treatments to protect valued resources from …