Fire Ecology Lab

UM ecologist: Western forests need high-severity fire 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.

In Defense of Severe Fires

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

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

Beautifully Burned Forests - Oregon Wild Discover the beauty and ecological value of burned forests on this webcast with biologist and researcher Dick Hutto.

Another podcast about "A Beautifully Burned Forest" book

Green Root Podcast | greenrootpodcast Join environmental writer, investigative journalist, and organizer Josh Schlossberg on a quest to uncover the roots of the modern ecological crisis on the Green Root Podcast, the OFFICIAL podcast of Eco-IntegrityAlliance.org

Good interview with Layne Hartsell on severe fire story here:

After the Flames: A Conversation with Wildlife Biologist Richard L. Hutto - Korea IT Times Layne Hartsell connected via Zoom with Richard L. Hutto—known to colleagues as Dick—as dawn broke over Missoula, Montana. The emeritus professor of wildlife biology at the University of Montana h...

Review of fire book…

A Beautifully Burned Forest (Book Review) Dick took me to the Blue Mountain burn area just south of Missoula and he did indeed start showing me woodpeckers and telling me about them. What he was really teaching me, I slowly began to realiz…

Thoughts on severely burned forests in the West

THE ECONEWS REPORT: Rethinking High-Severity Fires?  

"A Beautifully Burned Forest" available soon...order yours before it sells out!

A Beautifully Burned Forest: Learning to Celebrate Severe Forest Fire Download the free Kindle app and start reading Kindle books instantly on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required.

Heaven, 12 years later...Driving along highway 12 toward Lolo pass today, I passed right through the 2013 Lolo Creek Complex fire. A bunch of big trees along this stretch escaped salvage logging that decimated most of the beautifully burned forest there and, wow, the Lewis’s Woodpecker show was amazing! There must have been 20 birds flying all around and perching on the broken-top snags, indicating just how important it is to leave burned forests alone after a severe fire–those forests become heaven for species like the Lewis’s Woodpecker, not right after the fire, but a decade or so later.