A key challenge in the United States is how to manage wildfire risk across boundaries and
scales, as roles, responsibilities, and ability to act are distributed among actors in ways that …

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 …

Fire is a complex Earth system phenomenon that fundamentally affects vegetation
distributions, biogeochemical cycling, climate, and human society across most of Earth's …

This synthesis uses an overarching analogy to outline key wildfire social science lessons
and present human adaptation to wildfire as an ongoing process of negotiated trade-offs …

Reactive nitrogen (Nr) within smoke plumes plays important roles in the production of ozone,
the formation of secondary aerosols, and deposition of fixed N to ecosystems. The Western …

Fires and their associated carbon and air pollutant emissions have a broad range of
environmental and societal impacts, including negative effects on human health, damage to …

Abstract Background Karuk and Yurok tribes in northwestern California, USA, are revitalizing
the practice of cultural burning, which is the use of prescribed burns to enhance culturally …

There is a broad consensus in the academic and policy communities over the need to shift
the focus from fire suppression to fire prevention. To inform policies that effectively promote …

Large-scale, high-severity wildfires are a major challenge to the future social-ecological
sustainability of fire-adapted forest ecosystems in the American West. Managing forests to …

Since their introduction two decades ago, Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPPs)
have become a common planning tool for improving community preparedness and risk …