Complex early seral forests (CESFs) occupy potentially forested sites after a stand-
replacement disturbance and before re-establishment of a closed-forest canopy. Such …

There is significant debate about restoration targets for ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa)
and mixed-conifer forests in the Sierra Nevada, California, USA. On one side are …

Drier montane forest ecosystems and some shrub habitats are assumed to have been
maintained historically by lower-severity fires that created open and park-like structures in …

Megafires are landscape-scale fires most often> 50,000 ha (but sometimes much larger) and
occur infrequently in any given region. They consist of varying fire-patch severities, including …

Many at‐risk wildlife species depend upon high‐severity fire patches to create “complex
early seral forest”(CESF) land cover, characterized by an abundance of snags, downed logs …

Postfire management most often includes extensiver removal of biological legacies (eg,
snags and native shrubs) and replacing them with commercially valuable trees, as well as …

Megafires are landscape-scale fires most often> 50,000 ha (but sometimes much larger) that
occur in dry fire-adapted regions. They consist of varying fire-patch sizes, patch …

In the western US, the black-backed woodpecker has been found to be associated with
dense montane conifer forests with high snag densities, typically resulting from moderate-to …

Discussion The project as proposed–eg,“salvage tree removal within areas of high to
moderately high fire severity”–would entail significant adverse environmental impacts, due …

On behalf of the John Muir Project of Earth Island Institute (JMP) and the Center for
Biological Diversity (CBD), we offer the following comments on the Environmental …