We review science‐based adaptation strategies for western North American (wNA) forests
that include restoring active fire regimes and fostering resilient structure and composition of …

Context More than a century of forest and fire management of Inland Pacific landscapes has
transformed their successional and disturbance dynamics. Regional connectivity of many …

Citizen science has advanced science for hundreds of years, contributed to many peer-
reviewed articles, and informed land management decisions and policies across the United …

For over 20 years, forest fuel reduction has been the dominant management action in
western US forests. These same actions have also been associated with the restoration of …

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 …

Many of the most pressing threats to forests result from complex interactions between
multiple stressors and require management on large spatial and temporal scales. For this …

Numerous wildfire management agencies and institutions rely primarily on simple risk
approaches to wildfire that focus on technical risk assessments that do not reflect the …

The concept of forest landscape restoration (FLR) is being widely adopted around the globe
by governmental, non‐governmental agencies, and the private sector, all of whom see FLR …

Background There is broad recognition that fire management in the United States must
fundamentally change and depart from practices that have led to an over-emphasis on …

Governance challenges are frequently underestimated in forest landscape restoration.
Forest restoration practitioners are generally foresters or ecologists and their focus tends to …