Fire Ecology Lab

09/24/2026

Here's a link to a new review of "A Beautifully Burned Forest" in Ecological Restoration

09/05/2026

Now available to one and all!

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-03180-8

09/05/2026

Bald Cypress is another tree species in northern California that REQUIRES severe fire for cones to open. It is threatened by thinning and burning with low-severity fire, which kills adults and is not intense enough to open cones!

https://publications.cnps.org/books/Artemisia-V51N2-full-book/ =29

08/23/2026

Sorry, natural succession following disturbance supports shrublands for a while...sometimes a LONG while. Where's the ecology in this article?

Bigger, Hotter Fires Are Slowly Erasing America’s Great Forests

Towering woodlands in the West are being permanently replaced by tracts of spiky shrubs. Conditions “just aren’t normal anymore,” one researcher said.

08/22/2026

I can't believe that the USFS us conducting widespread use of Roundup on our public lands!!! Where is the ecology in an agency supposedly managing the land to maintain its ecological integrity? Early successional stages are important to maintain--our public lands are NOT TREE FARMS!

An investigation by the Center for Investigative Reporting has revealed that glyphosate is being sprayed in California forests at record levels by timber companies and the U.S. Forest Service. Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, kills vegetation that competes with young trees. The weedkill...

05/29/2026

Forest managers claim logging projects are needed to restore Western forests and protect them from catastrophic wildfire, but a former University of Montana professor has research to show that isn’t so.

04/26/2026

In Defense of Severe Fires

The prevalent view among fire managers (and beyond) is that forest ecosystems may experience “good” fires (i.e., low-intensity surface fires that leave tre

04/09/2026

Webinar with Oregon Wild…can get recording if you miss it.

Discover the beauty and ecological value of burned forests on this webcast with biologist and researcher Dick Hutto.