Carol L. Miller, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• Matthew P. Thompson, Kevin C. Vogler, Joe H. Scott, Carol L. Miller. 2022. Comparing risk‑based fuel treatment prioritization with alternative strategies for enhancing protection and resource management objectives
• Carol L. Miller, Philip E. Higuera, David B. McWethy, Alexander L. Metcalf, Elizabeth C. Metcalf, Anne E. Black, Lily Clarke, Haley Hodge. 2021. Developing strategies to support social-ecological resilience in flammable landscapes: A structured approach for natural resource managers and other stakeholders
• Julia K. Berkey, Carol L. Miller, Andrew J. Larson. 2021. A history of wilderness fire management in the Northern Rockies
• William M. Downing, Meg A. Krawchuk, Jonathan D. Coop, Garrett W. Meigs, Sandra L. Haire, Ryan B. Walker, Ellen Whitman, Geneva Chong, Carol L. Miller, Claire Tortorelli. 2020. How do plant communities differ between fire refugia and firegenerated early‐seral vegetation?
• Andrew J. Larson, Julia K. Berkey, Colin T. Maher, Wyatt Trull, R. Travis Belote, Carol L. Miller. 2020. Fire history (1889-2017) in the South Fork Flathead River Watershed within the Bob Marshall Wilderness (Montana), including effects of single and repeat wildfires on forest structure and fuels
• Marc-Andre Parisien, Alan Ager, Ana M. Barros, Denyse Dawe, Sandy Erni, Mark A. Finney, Charles W. McHugh, Carol L. Miller, Sean A. Parks, Karin Riley, Karen C. Short, Christopher A. Stockdale, Xianli Wang, Ellen Whitman. 2020. Commentary on the article “Burn probability simulation and subsequent wildland fire activity in Alberta, Canada - Implications for risk assessment and strategic planning” by J. L. Beverly and N. McLoughlin
• Marc-Andre Parisien, Denyse A. Dawe, Carol L. Miller, Christopher A. Stockdale, O. Bradley. Armitage. 2019. Applications of simulation-based burn probability modelling: A review
• David B. McWethy, Tania Schoennagel, Philip E. Higuera, Meg Krawchuk, Brian J. Harvey, Elizabeth C. Metcalf, Courtney Schultz, Carol L. Miller, Alexander L. Metcalf, Brian Buma, Arika Virapongse, Judith C. Kulig, Richard C. Stedman, Zak Ratajczak, Cara R. Nelson, Crystal Kolden. 2019. Rethinking resilience to wildfire
• Jonathan D. Coop, Timothy J. DeLory, William M. Downing, Sandra L. Haire, Meg A. Krawchuk, Carol L. Miller, Marc-Andre Parisien, Ryan B. Walker. 2019. Contributions of fire refugia to resilient ponderosa pine and dry mixed-conifer forest landscapes
• William M. Downing, Meg A. Krawchuk, Garrett W. Meigs, Sandra L. Haire, Jonathan D. Coop, Ryan B. Walker, Ellen Whitman, Geneva Chong, Carol L. Miller. 2019. Influence of fire refugia spatial pattern on post-fire forest recovery in Oregon’s Blue Mountains
• Nicolas Mansuy, Carol L. Miller, Marc-Andre Parisien, Sean A. Parks, Enric Batllori, Max A. Moritz. 2019. Contrasting human influences and macro-environmental factors on fire activity inside and outside protected areas of North America
• 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
• Philip E. Higuera, Alexander L. Metcalf, Carol L. Miller, Brian Buma, David B. McWethy, Elizabeth C. Metcalf, Zak Ratajczak, Cara R. Nelson, Brian C. Chaffin, Richard C. Stedman, Sarah McCaffrey, Tania Schoennagel, Brian J. Harvey, Sharon M. Hood, Courtney A. Schultz, Anne E. Black, David Campbell, Julia H. Haggerty, Robert E. Keane, Meg A. Krawchuk, Judith C. Kulig, Rebekah Rafferty, Arika Virapongse. 2019. Integrating subjective and objective dimensions of resilience in fire-prone landscapes
• Lisa M. Holsinger, Sean A. Parks, Marc-Andre Parisien, Carol L. Miller, Enric Batllori, Max A. Moritz. 2019. Climate change likely to reshape vegetation in North America's largest protected areas
• Sean A. Parks, Solomon Z. Dobrowski, John D. Shaw, Carol L. Miller. 2019. Living on the edge: Trailing edge forests at risk of fire-facilitated conversion to non-forest
• Sean A. Parks, Marc‐Andre Parisien, Carol L. Miller, Lisa M. Holsinger, Scott Baggett. 2018. Fine-scale spatial climate variation and drought mediate the likelihood of reburning
• Sean A. Parks, Lisa M. Holsinger, Carol L. Miller, Marc-Andre Parisien. 2018. Analog-based fire regime and vegetation shifts in mountainous regions of the western US
• Sandra L. Haire, Jonathan D. Coop, Carol L. Miller. 2017. Characterizing spatial neighborhoods of refugia following large fires in northern New Mexico, USA
• Francois-Nicolas Robinne, Kevin D. Bladon, Carol L. Miller, Marc-Andre Parisien, Jerome Mathieu, Mike D. Flannigan. 2017. A spatial evaluation of global wildfire-water risks to human and natural systems
• Enric Batllori, Marc-Andre Parisien, Sean A. Parks, Max A. Moritz, Carol L. Miller. 2017. Potential relocation of climatic environments suggests high rates of climate displacement within the North American protection network
• Meg A. Krawchuk, Sandra L. Haire, Jonathan Coop, Marc-Andre Parisien, Ellen Whitman, Geneva Chong, Carol L. Miller. 2016. Topographic and fire weather controls of contemporary fire refugia in forested ecosystems of northwestern North America
• Brian Cooke, Sean A. Parks, Carol L. Miller, Lisa M. Holsinger, Cara Nelson, Zack Holden, Scott Baggett, Benjamin Bird. 2016. Wildland fire: Nature's fuel treatment
• Francois-Nicolas Robinne, Carol L. Miller, Marc-Andre Parisien, Monica B. Emelko, Kevin D. Bladon, Uldis Silins, Mike Flannigan. 2016. A global index for mapping the exposure of water resources to wildfire
• Kevin Barnett, Sean A. Parks, Carol L. Miller, Helen T. Naughton. 2016. Beyond fuel treatment effectiveness: Characterizing interactions between fire and treatments in the US
• Kevin Barnett, Carol L. Miller, Tyron J. Venn. 2016. Using risk analysis to reveal opportunities for the management of unplanned ignitions in wilderness
• Lisa M. Holsinger, Sean A. Parks, Carol L. Miller. 2016. Weather, fuels, and topography impede wildland fire spread in western US landscapes
• Marc-Andre Parisien, Carol L. Miller, Sean A. Parks, Evan R. DeLancey, Francois-Nicolas Robinne, Mike D. Flannigan. 2016. The spatially varying influence of humans on fire probability in North America
• Carol L. Miller, Gregory H. Aplet. 2016. Progress in wilderness fire science: Embracing complexity
• Sean A. Parks, Carol L. Miller, John T. Abatzoglou, Lisa M. Holsinger, Marc-Andre Parisien, Solomon Z. Dobrowski. 2016. How will climate change affect wildland fire severity in the western US?
• Sean A. Parks, Carol L. Miller, Lisa M. Holsinger, Scott Baggett, Benjamin J. Bird. 2016. Wildland fire limits subsequent fire occurrence
• Carol L. Miller, Thomas Spies, Malcolm P. North, Nicholas Povak, R. Travis Belote, Peter Singleton, William L. Gaines, Robert E. Keane, Gregory H. Aplet, Scott L. Stephens, Penelope Morgan, Pete Bisson, Ryan D. Haugo, Bruce E. Rieman, Brion Salter, Gordon Reeves, Paul F. Hessburg, Derek J. Churchill, Andrew J. Larson. 2015. Restoring fire-prone Inland Pacific landscapes: seven core principles
• Sean A. Parks, Carol L. Miller, Marc-Andre Parisien, Lisa M. Holsinger, Solomon Z. Dobrowski, John Abatzoglou. 2015. Wildland fire deficit and surplus in the western United States, 1984-2012
• Sean A. Parks, Lisa M. Holsinger, Carol L. Miller, Cara R. Nelson. 2015. Wildland fire as a self-regulating mechanism: The role of previous burns and weather in limiting fire progression
• Sandra L. Haire, Carol L. Miller, Kevin McGarigal. 2015. Influence of landscape gradients in wilderness management and spatial climate on fire severity in the Northern Rockies USA, 1984 to 2010
• Robert E. Keane, Donald McKenzie, Donald A. Falk, Erica A.H. Smithwick, Carol L. Miller, Lara-Karena B. Kellogg. 2015. Representing climate, disturbance, and vegetation interactions in landscape models
• Peter Z. Fule, Thomas W. Swetnam, Peter M. Brown, Donald A. Falk, David L. Peterson, Craig D. Allen, Gregory H. Aplet, Michael A. Battaglia, Dan Binkley, Calvin Farris, Robert E. Keane, Ellis Q. Margolis, Henri Grissino-Mayer, Carol L. Miller, Carolyn H. Sieg, Carl N. Skinner, Scott L. Stephens, Alan Taylor. 2014. Unsupported inferences of high-severity fire in historical dry forests of the western United States: Response to Williams and Baker
• Enric Batllori, Carol L. Miller, Marc-Andre Parisien, Sean A. Parks, Max A. Moritz. 2014. Is U.S. climatic diversity well represented within the existing federal protection network?
• Penelope Morgan, Emily K. Heyerdahl, Carol L. Miller, Aaron Wilson, Carly E. Gibson. 2014. Northern Rockies pyrogeography: An example of fire atlas utility
• Carol L. Miller. 2014. The contribution of natural fire management to wilderness fire science
• Sean A. Parks, Greg Dillon, Carol L. Miller. 2014. A new metric for quantifying burn severity: The Relativized Burn Ratio
• Sean A. Parks, Marc-Andre Parisien, Carol L. Miller, Solomon Z. Dobrowski. 2014. Fire activity and severity in the western US vary along proxy gradients representing fuel amount and fuel moisture
• Sean A. Parks, Carol L. Miller, Cara R. Nelson, Zachary A. Holden. 2014. Previous fires moderate burn severity of subsequent wildland fires in two large western US wilderness areas
• Sandra L. Haire, Kevin McGarigal, Carol L. Miller. 2013. Wilderness shapes contemporary fire size distributions across landscapes of the western United States
• Carol L. Miller, Alan Ager. 2012. A review of recent advances in risk analysis for wildfire management
• Joe H. Scott, Donald Helmbrecht, Sean A. Parks, Carol L. Miller. 2012. Quantifying the threat of unsuppressed wildfires reaching the adjacent wildland-urban interface on the Bridger-Teton National Forest, Wyoming
• Carol L. Miller. 2012. The hidden consequences of fire suppression
• Sean A. Parks, Marc-Andre Parisien, Carol L. Miller. 2012. Spatial bottom-up controls on fire likelihood vary across western North America
• Marc-Andre Parisien, Sean A. Parks, Carol L. Miller, Meg A. Krawchuck, Mark Heathcott, Max A. Moritz. 2011. Contributions of ignitions, fuels, and weather to the spatial patterns of burn probability of a boreal landscape
• Sean A. Parks, Marc-Andre Parisien, Carol L. Miller. 2011. Multi-scale evaluation of the environmental controls on burn probability in a southern Sierra Nevada landscape
• Carol L. Miller. 2010. Living with fire: Fire ecology and policy for the twenty-first century [book review]
• Marc-Andre Parisien, Carol L. Miller, Alan A. Ager, Mark A. Finney. 2010. Use of artificial landscapes to isolate controls on burn probability
• Brett H. Davis, Carol L. Miller, Sean A. Parks. 2010. Retrospective fire modeling: Quantifying the impacts of fire suppression
• Susan I. Stewart, Bo Wilmer, Roger B. Hammer, Gregory H. Aplet, Todd J. Hawbaker, Carol L. Miller, Volker C. Radeloff. 2009. Wildland-urban interface maps vary with purpose and context
• Carol L. Miller, Brett H. Davis. 2009. Quantifying the consequences of fire suppression in two California national parks
• Jack D. Alexander III, Jean Findley, Brenda K. Kury, Jan L. Beyers, Douglas S. Cram, Terrell T. Baker, Jon C. Boren, Carl Edminster, Sue A. Ferguson, Steven McKay, David E. Nagel, Trent Piepho, Miriam Rorig, Casey Anderson, Jeanne Hoadley, Paulette L. Ford, Mark C. Andersen, Ed L. Fredrickson, Joe Truett, Gary W. Roemer, Brenda K. Kury, Jennifer Vollmer, Christine L. May, Danny C. Lee, James Menakis, Robert E. Keane, Zhi-Liang Zhu, Carol L. Miller, Brett H. Davis, Katharine Gray, Ken Mix, William P. Kuvlesky Jr., D. Lynn Drawe, Marcia G. Narog, Roger D. Ottmar, Robert E. Vihnanek, Clinton S. Wright, Timothy Paysen, Burton K. Pendleton, Rosemary L. Pendleton, Carleton S. White, John Rogan, Doug Stow, Janet Franklin, Carol L. Miller, Lisa Levien, Chris Fischer, Emma Underwood, Robert Klinger, Peggy Moore, Clinton Wright. 2008. Poster Session- Extended Abstracts
• Carol L. Miller. 2008. Changing research needs in wilderness fire
• Carol L. Miller, M.-A. Parisien, A. A. Ager, M. A. Finney. 2008. Evaluating spatially explicit burn probabilities for strategic fire management planning
• Carol L. Miller. 2007. Simulation of the consequences of different fire regimes to support wildland fire use decisions
• Donald A. Falk, Carol L. Miller, Donald McKenzie, Anne E. Black. 2007. Cross-scale analysis of fire regimes
• Carol L. Miller. 2006. Wilderness fire management in a changing world
• Dustin L. Doane, Jay O'Laughlin, Penelope Morgan, Carol L. Miller. 2006. Barriers to wildland fire use: A preliminary problem analysis
• Carol L. Miller, Peter B. Landres. 2004. Exploring information needs for wildland fire and fuels management
• David Parsons, Peter B. Landres, Carol L. Miller. 2003. Wildland fire use: the dilemma of managing and restoring natural fire and fuels in United States wilderness
• Carol L. Miller, Peter B. Landres, Paul B. Alaback. 2000. Evaluating risks and benefits of wildland fire at landscape scales

• Project
  

  Integrating Forests, Fish, and Fire (IF3)

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/projects/integrating-forests-fish-and-fire
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station

Multimedia

• Video

  Meet Research Ecologist Carol Miller

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/products/multimedia/videos/meet-research-ecologist-carol-miller

• Penn State University, B.S., Electrical Engineering, 1985
• Colorado State University, M.S., Forest Sciences, 1994
• Colorado State University, Ph.D., Ecology, 1998