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Principles of Fire Ecology. Jan 9, 2025. RECORDING not currently available

Follow-up to questions asked in the webinar:

  • What paper is the bark thickness graph from? Answer: Modeling postfire conifer mortality for long-range planning. David L. Peterson and Kevin C. Ryan. Environmental Management. Volume 10, pages 797–808, (1986). This paper does not appear to be available for free download, but can be requested through OSU’s interlibrary loan if you’re a student or employee.
  • How do you adjust fire frequency expectations due to the effects of climate change? Answer: it’s challenging, because there are a lot of uncertainties involved in modeling climate change and those are compounded by local interactions the influence fire. I recommend this review paper to provide guidance on how to approach the issue: Vegetation fires in the Anthropocene. David M. J. S. Bowman, Crystal A. Kolden, John T. Abatzoglou, Fay H. Johnston, Guido R. van der Werf & Mike Flannigan. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment volume 1, pages 500–515 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-020-0085-3
  • Have there been studies on the effects of exclusion of post-fire disturbances (much like the lack of grazing animals on post-fire landscapes) as restoration work tends to focus on recreating and sustaining pre-fire conditions? Answer: There’s a growing body of literature addressing implications of fire exclusion on various ecosystems, but I think you’re asking something different. There are papers on the impacts of bison exclusion from prairies, and lots of papers investigating implications of cattle grazing or exclusion thereof if various habitats. A relatively recent example is: Long-term frequent fire and cattle grazing alter dry forest understory vegetation. Becky K. Kerns, Michelle A. Day. 2024. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2972. Check the literature cited in this article and it will lead you to a wealth of related studies.
  • What’s the citation for the Jones 2023 article. Answer: Fire-driven animal evolution in the Pyrocene. Jones, Gavin M. et al. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Volume 38, Issue 11, 1072 – 1084.

Fire Regimes: What they are and how we know. Jan 23, 2025. RECORDING

Fire Ecology of Soils. February 13, 2025. RECORDING

Fire Ecology of Western Cascades and Coast Range, February 20, 2025. RECORDING

Fire Ecology of Eastside Moist and Sub/Alpine Forests. February 27, 2025. RECORDING

  • Johnston, J.D., P.N. Stephens, M.R. Schmidt, S.M.A. Jeronimo, A.E. Brackett, A.E. Wuenschel, D.E.M. Ulrich, R.H. Paine, L.F. Duloisy, S.M. Greenler, A.J. Larson, D.J. Churchill. In review. Significant mortality of old trees across a dry forest landscape, Oregon, USA.  Forest Ecology and Management.
  • Prevéy, J., C. Jarnevich, I. Pearse, S. Munson, J. Stevens, K. Barrett, J. Cook, M. Day, D. Firmage, P. Fornwalt, K. Haynes, J. Johnston, B. Kerns, M. Krawchuk, B. Miller, T. Nietupski, J. Roaque, J. Springer, C. Stevens_Rumman, M. Stoddard, C. Tortorelli.  2023.  Nonnative plant invasion after fire in western USA varies by functional type and with climate. Journal of Applied Ecology. 
  • Vernon, M.J., J.D. Johnston, T.D. Stokely, B.A. Miller, D.R. Woodruff.  2023.  Mechanical thinning restores ecological functions in a seasonally dry ponderosa pine forest in the inland Pacific Northwest, USA.  Forest Ecology and Management.
  • Greenler, S.M., C.J. Dunn, J.D. Johnston, M.J. Reilly, A.G. Merschel, R.K. Hagmann, and J.D. Bailey.  2023.  Too hot, too cold, or just right:  Can wildfire restore dry forests of the Interior Pacific Northwest? PLOS One 18(2), e0281927.
  • Johnston, J.D., and A.A. Lindsay.  2022.  Development of tools to age grand fir to aid in collaborative restoration of federal lands in eastern Oregon. Journal of Forestry.
  • Johnston, J.D., J.H. Olszewski, B.A. Miller, M.R. Schmidt, M.J. Vernon, and L.M. Ellsworth.  2021.  Mechanical thinning without prescribed fire moderates wildfire behavior in an eastern Oregon, USA ponderosa pine forest.  Forest Ecology and Management 501:119674.
  • Hogland, J., C.J. Dunn, and J.D. Johnston. 2021.  21st Century Planning Techniques for Creating Fire-Resilient Forests in the American West. Forests 12(8):1084. 
  • Johnston, J.D., S.M. Greenler, M.J. Reilly, M.R. Webb, A.G. Merschel, K.N. Johnson, and J.F. Franklin. 2021.  Conservation of dry forest old growth in eastern Oregon.  Journal of Forestry 1:13.
  • Johnston, J.D., R.K. Hagmann, A.G. Merschel, S.T. Seager, J.F. Franklin, and K.N. Johnston.  2021.  General Commentary:  Large Trees Dominate Carbon Storage in Forests East of the Cascade Crest in the United States Pacific Northwest. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 4:653774.
  • Johnston, J.D., S.M. Greenler, B.A. Miller, M.J. Reilly, A.A. Lindsay, and C.J. Dunn. 2021.  Diameter limits impede restoration of historical conditions in dry mixed-conifer forests of eastern Oregon, USA. Ecosphere 12(2):e03394.10.1002/ecs2.3394.
  • Lindsay, A.A., and J.D. Johnston. 2020. Using historical reconstructions of moist mixed conifer forests to inform forest management on the Malheur National Forest. In: Pile, Lauren S.; Deal, Robert L.; Dey, Daniel C.; Gwaze, David; Kabrick, John M.; Palik, Brian; Schuler, Thomas M., comps. The 2019 National Silviculture Workshop: a focus on forest management-research partnerships. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-193. Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station: 23-33. https://doi.org/10.2737/NRS-GTR-P-193-paper4.
  • Downing, W.M., J.D. Johnston, M.A. Krawchuk, A.G. Merschel, and J.H. Rausch. 2020 Disjunct and decoupled? The persistence of a fire sensitive conifer species in a historically frequent fire landscape. Journal for Nature Conservation.
  • Harley, G.L., E.K. Heyerdahl, J.D. Johnston, and D.L. Olson. 2020. Riparian and adjacent upland forests burned synchronously during dry years in eastern Oregon (1650-1900 CE), USA. International Journal of Wildland Fire.
  • Johnston, J.D., C.J. Dunn, M.J. Vernon, J.D. Bailey, B.A. Morrisette, and K. Morici. 2018. Restoring historical forest conditions in a diverse inland Pacific Northwest landscape. Ecosphere 9(8).
  • Johnston, J.D., J.D. Bailey, C.J. Dunn, and A.A. Lindsay. 2017. Historical fire-climate relationships in contrasting interior Pacific Northwest forest types. Fire Ecology 13(2).
  • Johnston, J.D. 2017. Forest succession along a productivity gradient following fire exclusion. Forest Ecology and Management 392:45-57.
  • Johnston, J.D., J.D. Bailey, and C.J. Dunn. 2016. Influence of fire disturbance and biophysical heterogeneity on pre-settlement ponderosa pine and mixed conifer forests. Ecosphere 7(11).

Fire ecology of southwestern Oregon. March 6, 2025. RECORDING

Specific to Region

  • Metlen, K. L., C. N. Skinner, D. R. Olson, C. Nichols, and D. Borgias. 2018. Regional and local controls on historical fire regimes of dry forests and woodlands in the Rogue River Basin, Oregon, USA. Forest Ecology and Management 430:43-58.
  • Taylor, A.H., V. Trouet, C.N. Skinner, and S. Stephens. 2016. “Socioecological Transitions Trigger Fire Regime Shifts and Modulate Fire-Climate Interactions in the Sierra Nevada, USA, 1600–2015 CE.” PNAS 113, no. 48
  • Knight, Clarke A., Charles V. Cogbill, Matthew D. Potts, James A. Wanket, and John J. Battles. “Settlement-Era Forest Structure and Composition in the Klamath Mountains: Reconstructing a Historical Baseline.” Ecosphere 11, no. 9 (2020): e03250. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3250.
  • Knight, C.A., L. Anderson, M.J. Bunting, M. Champagne, R.M. Clayburn, J.N. Crawford, A. Klimaszewski-Patterson, et al. 2022. “Land Management Explains Major Trends in Forest Structure and Composition over the Last Millennium in California’s Klamath Mountains.” PNAS 119, no. 12
  • Thompson, J.R., T.A. Spies, and L.M. Ganio. 2007. “Reburn Severity in Managed and Unmanaged Vegetation in a Large Wildfire.” PNAS 104, no. 25
  • Fontaine, Joseph B., Daniel C. Donato, W. Douglas Robinson, Beverly E. Law, and J. Boone Kauffman. “Bird Communities Following High-Severity Fire: Response to Single and Repeat Fires in a Mixed-Evergreen Forest, Oregon, USA.” Forest Ecology and Management 257, no. 6 (March 10, 2009): 1496–1504. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2008.12.030.
  • Donato, Daniel C., Joseph B. Fontaine, W. Douglas Robinson, J. Boone Kauffman, and Beverly E. Law. “Vegetation Response to a Short Interval between High-Severity Wildfires in a Mixed-Evergreen Forest.” Journal of Ecology 97, no. 1 (January 1, 2009): 142–54. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2745.2008.01456.x.
  • Vinyeta, Kirsten. “Under the Guise of Science: How the US Forest Service Deployed Settler Colonial and Racist Logics to Advance an Unsubstantiated Fire Suppression Agenda.” Environmental Sociology 0, no. 0 (October 12, 2021): 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2021.1987608.
  • Long, Jonathan, Andrew Gray, and Frank Lake. 2018. “Recent Trends in Large Hardwoods in the Pacific Northwest, USA.” Forests 9, no. 10: 651. http://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/9/10/651
  • Greenler, Skye M., Frank K. Lake, William Tripp, Kathy McCovey, Analisa Tripp, Leaf G. Hillman, Christopher J. Dunn, et al. “Blending Indigenous and Western Science: Quantifying Cultural Burning Impacts in Karuk Aboriginal Territory.” Ecological Applications 34, no. 4 (2024): e2973. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2973.

Related studies:

  • Parks, S.A., C.H. Guiterman, E.Q. Margolis, M.Lonergan, E. Whitman, J.T. Abatzoglou, D.A. Falk, et al. 2025 “A Fire Deficit Persists across Diverse North American Forests despite Recent Increases in Area Burned.” Nature Communications 16, no. 1
  • Miller, Jay D., and Hugh D. Safford. 2017. “Corroborating Evidence of a Pre-Euro-American Low- to Moderate-Severity Fire Regime in Yellow Pine-Mixed Conifer Forests of the Sierra Nevada, California, USA.” Fire Ecology 13, no. 1
  • Haugo, et al. 2019. The missing fire: quantifying human exclusion of wildfire in Pacific Northwest forests, USA. Ecosphere 10:e02702.
  • Foster, Daniel E., Scott S. Stephens, Perry de Valpine, and John J. Battles. 2024. “Threats to the Persistence of Sugar Pine (Pinus Lambertiana) in the Western USA.” Forest Ecology and Management 554

Books:

  • Agee, James K. Steward’s Fork: A Sustainable Future for the Klamath Mountains. 1st ed. University of California Press, 2007.
  • Anderson, M. Kat. Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California’s Natural Resources. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.
  • Norgaard, Kari Marie. Salmon and Acorns Feed Our People: Colonialism, Nature, and Social Action. Rutgers University Press, 2019.
  • Boyd, Robert. Indians, Fire and the Land in the Pacific Northwest. Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press, 1999. [See chapter “Burning for a “Fine and Beautiful Open Country”: Native Uses of Fire in Southwestern Oregon, Jeff LaLande and Reg Pullen”]
  • Karuk Tribe Department of Natural Resources. 2020. kúkuum yáv nukyâati peethívthaaneen  – We make the world good again.  https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/bebd5ff6a9f748968790c31448f03a2e

Fire ecology of Oregon’s dry forests. March 13, 2025. RECORDING

Fire ecology of sagebrush ecosystems. March 20, 2025. RECORDING

Fire ecology of oak savannah and oak woodlands. March 27, 2025. RECORDING

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