Brandon M. Collins, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• Nehalem C. Clark, Signe Leirfallom, Hannah Farrell, Michael A. Battaglia, Brandon M. Collins, Justin S. Crotteau, Kimberley T. Davis, Paula J. Fornwalt, Paul F. Hessburg, Sharon M. Hood, Eric E. Knapp, W. Keith Moser, Jose Negron. 2024. What do we know about forest treatments and fire? Photos and long-term studies help us understand
• Pariya Pourmohammadi, Zachary Steel, Brandon M. Collins, Matthew D. Hurteau, Emily J. Francis. 2023. Proportion of forest area burned at high-severity increases with increasing forest cover and connectivity in western US watersheds
• Kathryn E. Low, John J. Battles, Ryan E. Tompkins, Colin P. Dillingham, Scott L. Stephens, Brandon M. Collins. 2023. Shaded fuel breaks create wildfire-resilient forest stands: lessons from a long-term study in the Sierra Nevada
• Hannah M. Fertel, Brandon M. Collins, Jamie Lydersen, Scott L. Stephens. 2023. Vegetation type change in California’s Northern Bay Area: A comparison of contemporary and historical aerial imagery
• Scott L. Stephens, Zachary Steel, Brandon M. Collins, Danny L. Fry, Samantha J. Gill, Hiram Rivera‐Huerta, Carl N. Skinner. 2023. Climate and fire impacts on tree recruitment in mixed conifer forests in northwestern Mexico and California
• Lisa A. McCauley, Nicholas Povak, Kristen L. Shive, Edward Smith, Jens Stevens, Camille S. Stevens-Rumann, lan H. Taylor, Alan J. Tepley, Derek J. N. Young, Robert A. Andrus, Mike A. Battaglia, Julia K. Berkey, Sebastian Busby, Amanda R. Carlson, Marin E. Chambers, Erich Dodson, Daniel C. Donato, William M. Downing, Paula J. Fornwalt, Joshua S. Halofsky, Ashley Hoffman, Andres Holz, Jose Iniguez, Meg A. Krawchuk, Mark R. Kreider, Andrew J. Larson, Garrett W. Meigs, John Paul Roccaforte, Monica T. Rother, Hugh Safford, Michael Schaedel, Jason S. Sibold, Megan P. Singleton, Monica G. Turner, Alexandra K. Urza, Kyra D. Clark-Wolf, Larissa Yocom, Joseph B. Fontaine, John L. Campbell, Kimberley T. Davis, Marcos D. Robles, Kerry B. Kemp, Philip E. Higuera, Teresa Chapman, Kerry L. Metlen, Jamie L. Peeler, Kyle C. Rodman, Travis Woolley, Robert N. Addington, Brian J. Buma, C. Alina Cansler, Michael J. Case, Brandon M. Collins, Jonathan D. Coop, Solomon Z. Dobrowski, Nathan S. Gill, Collin Haffey, Lucas B. Harris, Brian J. Harvey, Ryan D. Haugo, Matthew D. Hurteau, Dominik Kulakowski, Caitlin E. Littlefield. 2023. Reduced fire severity offers near-term buffer to climate-driven declines in conifer resilience across the western United States
• Alexis Bernal, Scott Stephens, Brandon M. Collins, John J. Battles. 2022. Biomass stocks in California’s fire-prone forests: mismatch in ecology and policy
• Zachary Steel, Gavin M. Jones, Brandon M. Collins, Rebecca E. Green, Alexander Koltunov, Kathryn L. Purcell, Sarah Sawyer, Michele R. Slaton, Scott L. Stephens, Peter Stine, Craig M. Thompson. 2022. Mega-disturbances cause rapid decline of mature conifer forest habitat in California
• Scott L. Stephens, Alexis A. Bernal, Brandon M. Collins, Mark A. Finney, Chris Lautenberger, David Saah. 2022. Mass fire behavior created by extensive tree mortality and high tree density not predicted by operational fire behavior models in the southern Sierra Nevada
• Gavin M. Jones, Emily K. Vraga, Paul F. Hessburg, Matthew D. Hurteau, Craig D. Allen, Robert E. Keane, Thomas Spies, Malcolm P. North, Brandon M. Collins, Mark A. Finney, Jamie Lydersen, A. Leroy. Westerling. 2022. Counteracting wildfire misinformation
• David W. Huffman, Jose Iniguez, Kurt F. Kipfmueller, Stanley G. Kitchen, Keith Lombardo, Donald McKenzie, Andrew G. Merschel, Kerry L. Metlen, Jesse Minor, Christopher D. O'Connor, Laura Platt, William J. Platt, Thomas Saladyga, Amanda B. Stan, Scott Stephens, Colleen Sutheimer, Ramzi Touchan, Peter J. Weisberg, Ellis Q. Margolis, Christopher H. Guiterman, Raphael D. Chavardes, Jonathan D. Coop, Kelsey Copes-Gerbitz, Denyse A. Dawe, Donald A. Falk, James D. Johnston, Evan Larson, Hang Li, Joseph M. Marschall, Cameron E. Naficy, Adam T. Naito, Marc-Andre Parisien, Sean A. Parks, Jeanne Portier, Helen M. Poulos, Kevin M. Robertson, James H. Speer, Michael Stambaugh, Thomas W. Swetnam, Alan J. Tepley, Ichchha Thapa, Craig D. Allen, Yves Bergeron, Lori D. Daniels, Peter Z. Fule, David Gervais, Martin P. Girardin, Grant L. Harley, Jill E. Harvey, Kira M. Hoffman, Jean M. Huffman, Matthew D. Hurteau, Lane B. Johnson, Charles W. Lafon, Manuel K. Lopez, R. Stockton Maxwell, Jed Meunier, Malcolm P. North, Monica T. Rother, Micah R. Schmidt, Rosemary L. Sherriff, Lauren A. Stachowiak, Alan Taylor, Erana J. Taylor, Valerie Trouet, Miguel L. Villarreal, Larissa L. Yocom, Karen B. Arabas, Alexis H. Arizpe, Dominique Arseneault, Alicia Azpeleta Tarancon, Christopher Baisan, Erica Bigio, Franco Biondi, Gabriel D. Cahalan, Anthony Caprio, Julian Cerano-Paredes, Brandon M. Collins, Daniel C. C. Dey, Igor Drobyshev, Calvin Farris, M. Adele Fenwick, William Flatley, M. Lisa Floyd, Ze'ev Gedalof, Andres Holz, Lauren F. Howard. 2022. The North American tree-ring fire-scar network
• Malcolm P. North, Ryan E. Tompkins, Alexis A. Bernal, Brandon M. Collins, Scott L. Stephens, Robert A. York. 2022. Operational resilience in western US frequent-fire forests
• Zachary Steel, Daniel Foster, Michelle Coppoletta, Jamie Lydersen, Scott L. Stephens, Asha Paudel, Scott H. Markwith, Kyle Merriam, Brandon M. Collins. 2021. Ecological resilience and vegetation transition in the face of two successive large wildfires
• Kate Wilkin, Lauren Ponisio, Danny L. Fry, Brandon M. Collins, Tadashi Moody, Scott L. Stephens. 2021. Drivers of understory plant communities in Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forests with pyrodiversity
• Brandon M. Collins, Alexis Bernal, Robert A. York, Jens Stevens, Andrew Juska, Scott L. Stephens. 2021. Mixed‐conifer forest reference conditions for privately owned timberland in the southern Cascade Range
• Ian B. Moore, Brandon M. Collins, Daniel Foster, Ryan E. Tompkins, Jens Stevens, Scott L. Stephens. 2021. Variability in wildland fuel patches following high-severity fire and post-fire treatments in the northern Sierra Nevada
• Bodie Cabiyo, Jeremy S. Fried, Brandon M. Collins, William Stewart, Jun Wong, Daniel L. Sanchez. 2021. Innovative wood use can enable carbon-beneficial forest management in California
• Scott L. Stephens, Michael A. Battaglia, Derek J. Churchill, Brandon M. Collins, Michelle Coppoletta, Chad M. Hoffman, Jamie Lydersen, Malcolm P. North, Russell A. Parsons, Scott Ritter, Jens Stevens. 2021. Forest restoration and fuels reduction: Convergent or divergent?
• Kyle E. Merriam, Michelle Coppoletta, Angela M. White, Brandon M. Collins, Shana E. Gross. 2021. Postfire restoration framework
• Malcolm P. North, R York, Brandon M. Collins, M Hurteau, Gavin M. Jones, Eric E. Knapp, L Kobziar, H McCann, M Meyer, S Stephens, R Tompkins, C L. Tubbesing. 2021. Pyrosilviculture needed for landscape resilience of dry western United States forests
• Zachary Steel, Brandon M. Collins, David B. Sapsis, Scott L. Stephens. 2021. Quantifying pyrodiversity and its drivers
• Kathryn E. Low, Brandon M. Collins, Alexis Bernal, John E. Sanders, Dylan Pastor, Patricia N. Manley, Angela M. White, Scott L. Stephens. 2021. Longer-term impacts of fuel reduction treatments on forest structure, fuels, and drought resistance in the Lake Tahoe Basin
• Justin P. Ziegler, Chad M. Hoffman, Brandon M. Collins, Eric E. Knapp, William E. Mell. 2021. Pyric tree spatial patterning interactions in historical and contemporary mixed conifer forests, California, USA
• Qin Ma, Roger C. Bales, Joseph Rungee, Martha H. Conklin, Brandon M. Collins, Michael L. Goulden. 2020. Wildfire controls on evapotranspiration in California’s Sierra Nevada
• Justin P. Ziegler, Chad M. Hoffman, Brandon M. Collins, Jonathan W. Long, Christa Dagley, William E. Mell. 2020. Simulated fire behavior and fine-scale forest structure following conifer removal in aspen-conifer forests in the Lake Tahoe Basin, USA
• Nicholas A. Povak, Van R. Kane, Brandon M. Collins, Jamie Lydersen, Jonathan T. Kane. 2020. Multi-scaled drivers of severity patterns vary across land ownerships for the 2013 Rim Fire, California
• Jacob I Levine, Brandon M. Collins, Robert A. York, Daniel E. Foster, Danny L. Fry, Scott L. Stephens. 2020. Forest stand and site characteristics influence fuel consumption in repeat prescribed burns
• Jens Stevens, Gabrielle F. S. Boisramé, Ekaterina Rakhmatulina, Sally E. Thompson, Brandon M. Collins, Scott L. Stephens. 2020. Forest vegetation change and its impacts on soil water following 47 Years of managed wildfire
• Connor W. Stephens, Brandon M. Collins, John Rogan. 2020. Land ownership impacts post-wildfire forest regeneration in Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forests
• Daniel E. Foster, John J. Battles, Brandon M. Collins, Robert A. York, Scott L. Stephens. 2020. Potential wildfire and carbon stability in frequent‐fire forests in the Sierra Nevada: trade‐offs from a long‐term study
• Jonathan D. Coop, Sean A. Parks, Camille S. Stevens-Rumann, Shelley D. Crausbay, Philip E. Higuera, Matthew D. Hurteau, Alan Tepley, Ellen Whitman, Timothy Assal, Brandon M. Collins, Kimberley T. Davis, Solomon Dobrowski, Donald A. Falk, Paula J. Fornwalt, Peter Z. Fule, Brian J. Harvey, Van R. Kane, Caitlin E. Littlefield, Ellis Q. Margolis, Malcolm P. North, Marc-Andre Parisien, Susan Prichard, Kyle C. Rodman. 2020. Wildfire-driven forest conversion in western North American landscapes
• Eric E. Knapp, Bob Carlson, Malcolm P. North, Jamie Lydersen, Brandon M. Collins. 2020. Restoring forest heterogeneity with thinning and prescribed fire: Initial results from the central Sierra Nevada, California
• Brandon M. Collins, Scott L. Stephens, Robert A. York. 2019. Perspectives from a long-term study of fuel reduction and forest restoration in the Sierra Nevada
• Jamie Lydersen, Brandon M. Collins, Michelle Coppoletta, Melissa R. Jaffe, Hudson Northrop, Scott L. Stephens. 2019. Fuel dynamics and reburn severity following high-severity fire in a Sierra Nevada, USA, mixed-conifer forest
• Van R. Kane, Bryce N. Bartl-Geller, Malcolm P. North, Jonathan T. Kane, Jamie Lydersen, Sean M.A. Jeronimo, Brandon M. Collins, L. Monika Moskal. 2019. First-entry wildfires can create opening and tree clump patterns characteristic of resilient forests
• Jamie Lydersen, Brandon M. Collins, Carolyn T. Hunsaker. 2019. Implementation constraints limit benefits of restoration treatments in mixed-conifer forests
• Paul F. Hessburg, Carol L. Miller, Sean A. Parks, Nicholas Povak, Malcolm P. North, Brandon M. Collins, Thomas Spies, Alina Cansler, Michael A. Battaglia, Carl N. Skinner. 2019. Climate, environment, and disturbance history govern resilience of Western North American forests
• Brandon M. Collins, Jay D. Miller, Eric E. Knapp, David B. Sapsis. 2019. A quantitative comparison of forest fires in central and northern California under early (1911–1924) and contemporary (2002–2015) fire suppression
• Jan W. van Wagtendonk, Jo Ann Fites-Kaufman, Hugh D. Safford, Malcolm P. North, Brandon M. Collins. 2018. Sierra Nevada Bioregion
• Chad M. Hoffman, Brandon M. Collins, Michael A. Battaglia. 2018. Wildland fuel treatments
• Jamie Lydersen, Brandon M. Collins. 2018. Change in vegetation patterns over a large forested landscape based on historical and contemporary aerial photography
• Alexandro B. Leverkus, José María Rey Benayas, Jorge Castro, Dominique Boucher, Stephen Brewer, Brandon M. Collins, Daniel Donato, Shawn Fraver, Barbara E. Kishchuk, Eun-Jae Lee, David B. Lindenmayer, Emanuele Lingua, Ellen Macdonald, Raffaella Marzano, Charles C. Rhoades, Alejandro A. Royo, Simon Thorn, Joseph Wagenbrenner, Kaysandra Waldron, Thomas Wohlgemuth, Lena Gustafsson. 2018. Salvage logging effects on regulating and supporting ecosystem services — a systematic map
• Scott L Stephens, Brandon M. Collins, Christopher J. Fettig, Mark A. Finney, Chad M Hoffman, Eric E. Knapp, Malcolm P. North, Hugh Safford, Rebecca B Wayman. 2018. Drought, tree mortality, and wildfire in forests adapted to frequent fire
• Brandon M. Collins, Danny L. Fry, Jamie Lydersen, Richard Everett, Scott L. Stephens. 2017. Impacts of different land management histories on forest change
• Jens Stevens, Brandon M. Collins, Jay D. Miller, Malcolm P. North, Scott L. Stephens. 2017. Changing spatial patterns of stand-replacing fire in California conifer forests
• Eric E. Knapp, Jamie Lydersen, Malcolm P. North, Brandon M. Collins. 2017. Efficacy of variable density thinning and prescribed fire for restoring forest heterogeneity to mixed-conifer forest in the central Sierra Nevada, CA
• Malcolm P. North, Mark W. Schwartz, Brandon M. Collins, John J. Keane. 2017. Current and projected condition of mid-elevation Sierra Nevada forests
• Carrie R. Levine, Charles V. Cogbill, Brandon M. Collins, Andrew J. Larson, James A. Lutz, Malcolm P. North, Christina M. Restaino, Hugh D. Safford, Scott L. Stephens, John J. Battles. 2017. Evaluating a new method for reconstructing forest conditions from General Land Office survey records
• Jamie Lydersen, Brandon M. Collins, Matthew L. Brooks, John R. Matchett, Kristen L. Shive, Nicholas Povak, Van R. Kane, Douglas F. Smith. 2017. Evidence of fuels management and fire weather influencing fire severity in an extreme fire event
• Brandon M. Collins, Jens Stevens, Jay D. Miller, Scott L. Stephens, Peter M. Brown, Malcolm P. North. 2017. Alternative characterization of forest fire regimes: incorporating spatial patterns
• Lindsay A. Chiono, Danny L. Fry, Brandon M. Collins, Andrea H. Chatfield, Scott L. Stephens. 2017. Landscape-scale fuel treatment and wildfire impacts on carbon stocks and fire hazard in California spotted owl habitat
• Gabrielle Boisramé, Sally Thompson, Brandon M. Collins, Scott Stephens. 2017. Managed wildfire effects on forest resilience and water in the Sierra Nevada
• Michelle Coppoletta, Kyle E. Merriam, Brandon M. Collins. 2016. Post‐fire vegetation and fuel development influences fire severity patterns in reburns
• Sabina Dore, Danny L. Fry, Brandon M. Collins, Rodrigo Vargas, Robert A. York, Scott L. Stephens. 2016. Management impacts on carbon dynamics in a Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forest
• Heather A. Kramer, Brandon M. Collins, Lief V. Gallagher, John J. Keane, Scott L. Stephens, Maggi Kelly. 2016. Accessible light detection and ranging: estimating large tree density for habitat identification
• Yanjun Su, Qinghua Guo, Brandon M. Collins, Danny L. Fry, Tianyu Hu, Maggi Kelly. 2016. Forest fuel treatment detection using multi-temporal airborne lidar data and high-resolution aerial imagery: a case study in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California
• A. Paige Fischer, Thomas Spies, Toddi A Steelman, Cassandra Moseley, Bart R Johnson, John D Bailey, Alan Ager, Patrick Bourgeron, Susan Charnley, Brandon M. Collins, Jeffrey D Kline, Jessica E Leahy, Jeremy S Littell, James DA Millington, Max Nielsen-Pincus, Christine S Olsen, Travis B Paveglio, Christopher I Roos, Michelle M Steen-Adams, Forrest R Stevens, Jelena Vukomanovic, Eric M White, David M. J. S. Bowman. 2016. Pathology of wildfire risk: A characterization of social and ecological dimensions
• Yanjun Su, Qinghua Guo, Danny L. Fry, Brandon M. Collins, Maggi Kelly, Jacob P. Flanagan, John J. Battles. 2016. A vegetation mapping strategy for conifer forests by combining airborne LiDAR data and aerial imagery
• Christopher B. Dow, Brandon M. Collins, Scott L. Stephens. 2016. Incorporating resource protection constraints in an analysis of landscape fuel-treatment effectiveness in the northern Sierra Nevada, CA, USA
• Malcolm P. North, Brandon M. Collins, Hugh Safford, Nathan L. Stephenson. 2016. Montane forests
• Scott L. Stephens, Jay D. Miller, Brandon M. Collins, Malcolm P. North, John J. Keane, Susan L. Roberts. 2016. Wildfire impacts on California spotted owl nesting habitat in the Sierra Nevada
• Brandon M. Collins, Jamie Lydersen, Danny L. Fry, Katherine Wilkin, Tadashi Moody, Scott L. Stephens. 2016. Variability in vegetation and surface fuels across mixed-conifer-dominated landscapes with over 40 years of natural fire
• Jamie Lydersen, Brandon M. Collins, Jay D. Miller, Danny L. Fry, Scott L. Stephens. 2016. Relating fire-caused change in forest structure to remotely sensed estimates of fire severity
• Heather Kramer, Brandon M. Collins, Frank K. Lake, Marek Jakubowski, Scott Stephens, Maggi Kelly. 2016. Estimating ladder fuels: a new approach combining field photography with LiDAR
• Jens Stevens, Brandon M. Collins, Jonathan W. Long, Malcolm P. North, Susan J. Prichard, Leland Tarnay, Angela M. White. 2016. Evaluating potential trade-offs among fuel treatment strategies in mixed-conifer forests of the Sierra Nevada
• A Paige Fischer, Thomas Spies, Toddi A Steelman, Cassandra Moseley, Bart R Johnson, John D Bailey, Alan Ager, Patrick Bourgeron, Susan Charnley, Brandon M. Collins, Jeffrey D. Kline, Jessica E Leahy, Jeremy S Littell, James DA Millington, Max Nielsen-Pincus, Christine S Olsen, Travis B Paveglio, Christopher I Roos, Michelle M Steen-Adams, Forrest R Stevens, Jelena Vukomanovic, Eric M. White, David MJS Bowman. 2016. Wildfire risk as a socioecological pathology
• Paul F. Hessburg, Thomas Spies, David A. Perry, Carl N. Skinner, Alan H. Taylor, Peter M. Brown, Scott L. Stephens, Andrew J. Larson, Derek J. Churchill, Nicholas Povak, Peter Singleton, Brenda McComb, Bill Zielinski, Brandon M. Collins, R. Brion Salter, John J. Keane, Jerry F. Franklin, Greg Riegel. 2016. Tamm Review: Management of mixed-severity fire regime forests in Oregon, Washington, and Northern California
• Brandon M. Collins, Jamie Lydersen, Richard G. Everett, Danny L. Fry, Scott L. Stephens. 2015. Novel characterization of landscape-level variability in historical vegetation structure
• Scott L. Stephens, Jamie Lydersen, Brandon M. Collins, Danny L. Fry, Marc D. Meyer. 2015. Historical and current landscape-scale ponderosa pine and mixed conifer forest structure in the Southern Sierra Nevada
• Jamie Lydersen, Brandon M. Collins, Eric E. Knapp, Gary B. Roller, Scott Stephens. 2015. Relating fuel loads to overstorey structure and composition in a fire-excluded Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forest
• Malcolm P. North, April Brough, Jonathan W. Long, Brandon M. Collins, Phil Bowden, Don Yasuda, Jay Miller, Neil Suighara. 2015. Constraints on mechanized treatment significantly limit mechanical fuels reduction extent in the Sierra Nevada
• Brandon M. Collins, Adrian J. Das, John J. Battles, Danny L. Fry, Kevin D. Krasnow, Scott L. Stephens. 2014. Beyond reducing fire hazard: fuel treatment impacts on overstory tree survival
• Scott L. Stephens, Seth W. Bigelow, Ryan D. Burnett, Brandon M. Collins, Lief V. Gallagher, John J. Keane, Douglas A. Kelt, Malcolm P. North, Lance J. Roberts, Peter Stine, Dirk H. Van Vuren. 2014. California spotted owl, songbird, and small mammal responses to landscape fuel treatments
• Brandon M. Collins, Carl Skinner. 2014. Fire and fuels
• Malcolm P. North, Brandon M. Collins, John J. Keane, Jonathan W. Long, Carl N. Skinner, Bill Zielinski. 2014. Synopsis of emergent approaches
• Brandon M. Collins. 2014. Fire weather and large fire potential in the northern Sierra Nevada
• Danny L. Fry, Scott L. Stephens, Brandon M. Collins, Malcolm P. North, Ernesto Franco-Vizcaino, Samantha J. Gill. 2014. Contrasting spatial patterns in active-fire and fire-suppressed Mediterranean climate old-growth mixed conifer forests
• Heather Kramer, Brandon M. Collins, Maggi Kelly, Scott Stephens. 2014. Quantifying Ladder Fuels: A New Approach Using LiDAR
• Jamie Lydersen, Malcolm P. North, Brandon M. Collins. 2014. Severity of an uncharacteristically large wildfire, the Rim Fire, in forests with relatively restored frequent fire regimes
• Jamie Lydersen, Brandon M. Collins, Carol Ewell, Alicia Reiner, Jo Ann Fites, Christopher Dow, Patrick Gonzalez, David Saah, John Battles. 2014. Using field data to assess model predictions of surface and ground fuel consumption by wildfire in coniferous forests of California
• Brandon M. Collins, Gary B. Roller. 2013. Early forest dynamics in stand-replacing fire patches in the northern Sierra Nevada, California, USA
• Brandon M. Collins, Heather A. Kramer, Kurt Menning, Colin Dillingham, David Saah, Peter Stine, Scott L. Stephens. 2013. Modeling hazardous fire potential within a completed fuel treatment network in the northern Sierra Nevada
• Jamie Lydersen, Malcolm P. North, Eric E. Knapp, Brandon M. Collins. 2013. Quantifying spatial patterns of tree groups and gaps in mixed-conifer forests: reference conditions and long-term changes following fire suppression and logging
• Marek K. Jakubowksi, Qinghua Guo, Brandon M. Collins, Scott Stephens, Maggi Kelly. 2013. Predicting surface fuel models and fuel metrics using lidar and CIR imagery in a dense mixed conifer forest
• Malcolm P. North, Brandon M. Collins, Scott L Stephens. 2012. Using fire to increase the scale, benefits and future maintenance of fuels treatments
• Jay D. Miller, Brandon M. Collins, James A. Lutz, Scott L. Stephens, Jan W. van Wagtendonk, Donald A. Yasuda. 2012. Differences in wildfires among ecoregions and land management agencies in the Sierra Nevada region, California, USA
• Scott. L. Stephens, Brandon M. Collins, Gary Roller. 2012. Fuel treatment longevity in a Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forest
• Scott L. Stephens, Ralph E. J. Boerner, Jason J. Moghaddas, Emily E. Moghaddas, Brandon M. Collins, Christopher B. Dow, Carl Edminster, Carl E. Fiedler, Danny L. Fry, Bruce R. Hartsough, Jon E. Keeley, Eric E. Knapp, James D. McIver, Carl N. Skinner, Andrew Youngblood. 2012. Fuel treatment impacts on estimated wildfire carbon loss from forests in Montana, Oregon, California, and Arizona
• Brandon M. Collins, S.L. Stephens. 2012. Chapter 1: Fire and fuels reduction
• Brandon M. Collins, Scott L. Stephens, Gary B. Roller, John Battles. 2011. Simulating fire and forest dynamics for a coordinated landscape fuel treatment project in the Sierra Nevada
• Brandon M. Collins, Richard G. Everett, Scott L. Stephens. 2011. Impacts of fire exclusion and recent managed fire on forest structure in old growth Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forests
• Brandon M. Collins, S.L. Stephens, J.J. Moghaddas, J. Battles. 2010. Challenges and approaches in planning fuel treatments across fire-excluded forested landscapes
• Brandon M. Collins, S.L. Stephens. 2010. Stand-replacing patches within a ‘mixed severity’ fire regime: quantitative characterization using recent fires in a long-established natural fire area
• J.J. Moghaddas, Brandon M. Collins, K. Menning, E.E.Y. Moghaddas, S.L. Stephens. 2010. Fuel treatment effects on modeled landscape level fire behavior in the northern Sierra Nevada
• Scott L. Stephens, Danny L. Fry, Brandon M. Collins, Carl N. Skinner, Ernesto Franco-Vizcaino, Travis J. Freed. 2010. Fire-scar formation in Jeffrey pine - mixed conifer forests in the Sierra San Pedro Martir, Mexico
• Scott L. Stephens, Connie I. Millar, Brandon M. Collins. 2010. Operational approaches to managing forests of the future in Mediterranean regions within a context of changing climates
• Malcolm P. North, K.M. van de Water, S.L. Stephens, Brandon M. Collins. 2009. Climate, rain shadow, and human-use influences on fire regimes in the eastern Sierra Nevada, California, USA
• Brandon M. Collins, Philip N. Omi, Phillip L. Chapman. 2006. Regional relationships between climate and wildfire-burned area in the interior West, USA
• Mark A. Finney, Roberta Bartlette, Larry S. Bradshaw, Kelly Close, Brandon M. Collins, Paul Gleason, Wei Min Hao, Paul Langowski, John McGinely, Charles W. McHugh, Erik Martinson, Phillip N. Omi, Wayne Shepperd, Karl Zeller. 2003. Fire behavior, fuel treatments, and fire suppression on the Hayman Fire

Articles

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  Managing fire for plants and animals

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/articles/managing-fire-plants-and-animals
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  Fuels reduction treatments achieve long-term restoration goals nationwide

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/articles/fuels-reduction-treatments-achieve-long-term-restoration-goals-nationwide

Other Publications

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  Lake Tahoe West Science Summary of Findings Report

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/psw/understory/lake-tahoe-west-science-summary-findings-report

Multimedia

• Webinars

  Maintaining Fuels Treatments: Planning for the Long Term

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/products/multimedia/webinars/maintaining-fuels-treatments-planning-long-term
• Webinars
  

  Fuels Treatment Effectiveness

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/products/multimedia/webinars/fuels-treatment-effectiveness

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• UC Berkeley, B.S., Forestry, 2001