Carl N. Skinner
Former Volunteer
Emeritus Scientist
Treesearch Publications
- 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
- Gabrielle N. Bohlman, Hugh D. Safford, Carl N. Skinner. 2021. Natural range of variation for yellow pine and mixed-conifer forests in northwestern California and southwestern Oregon
- 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
- Thomas Spies, Paul F. Hessburg, Carl N. Skinner, Klaus J. Puettmann, Matthew Reilly, Raymond J. Davis, Jane A. Kertis, Jonathan W. Long, David C. . Shaw. 2018. Chapter 3: Old growth, disturbance, forest succession, and management in the area of the Northwest Forest Plan
- Kerry L. Metlen, Carl N. Skinner, Derek R. Olson, Clint Nichols, Darren Borgias. 2018. Regional and local controls on historical fire regimes of dry forests and woodlands in the Rogue River Basin, Oregon, USA
- Robert M. Scheller, Alec M. Kretchun, E. Louise Loudermilk, Matthew D. Hurteau, Peter J. Weisberg, Carl N. Skinner. 2018. Interactions among fuel management, species composition, bark beetles, and climate change and the potential effects on forests of the Lake Tahoe Basin
- Becky Estes, Eric E. Knapp, Carl N. Skinner, Jay D. Miller, Haiganoush K. Preisler. 2017. Factors influencing fire severity under moderate burning conditions in the Klamath Mountains, northern California, USA
- Larissa L. Yocom Kent, Peter Z. Fulé, Peter M. Brown, Julián Cerano-Paredes, Eladio Cornejo-Oviedo, Citlali Cortés Montaño, Stacy Drury, Donald A. Falk, Jed Meunier, Helen M. Poulos, Carl N. Skinner, Scott L. Stephens, José Villanueva-Díaz. 2017. Climate drives fire synchrony but local factors control fire regime change in northern Mexico
- Catherine Airey Lauvaux, Carl N. Skinner, Alan H. Taylor. 2016. High severity fire and mixed conifer forest-chaparral dynamics in the southern Cascade Range, USA
- Alan H. Taylor, Valerie Trouet, Carl N. Skinner, Scott Stephens. 2016. Socioecological transitions trigger fire regime shifts and modulate fire–climate interactions in the Sierra Nevada, USA, 1600–2015 CE
- 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
- Jonathan W. Long, M. Kat Anderson, Lenya Quinn-Davidson, Ron W. Goode, Frank K. Lake, Carl N. Skinner. 2016. Restoring California black oak ecosystems to promote tribal values and wildlife
- Jonathan W. Long, Lenya Quinn-Davidson, Ron W. Goode, Frank K. Lake, Carl N. Skinner. 2015. Restoring California black oak to support tribal values and wildlife
- Jian Yang, Peter J. Weisberg, Thomas E. Dilts, E. Louise Loudermilk, Robert M. Scheller, Alison Stanton, Carl N. Skinner. 2015. Predicting wildfire occurrence distribution with spatial point process models and its uncertainty assessment: a case study in the Lake Tahoe Basin, USA
- Jonathan W. Long, Lenya Quinn-Davidson, Carl N. Skinner. 2014. Science synthesis to support socioecological resilience in the Sierra Nevada and southern Cascade Range
- Jonathan W. Long, Lenya Quinn-Davidson, Carl N. Skinner. 2014. Science synthesis to support socioecological resilience in the Sierra Nevada and southern Cascade Range: Executive Summary
- 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
- Jonathan W. Long, Carl N. Skinner, Susan Charnley, Ken R. Hubbert, Lenya Quinn-Davidson, Marc Meyer. 2014. Post-wildfire management
- Jonathan W. Long, Carl N. Skinner, Malcolm P. North, Lenya Quinn-Davidson. 2014. Research gaps: adaptive management to cross-cutting issues
- Jonathan W. Long, Carl N. Skinner, Hugh Safford, Susan Charnley, Patricia L. Winter. 2014. Introduction
- Malcolm P. North, Brandon M. Collins, John J. Keane, Jonathan W. Long, Carl N. Skinner, Bill Zielinski. 2014. Synopsis of emergent approaches
- E. Louise Loudermilk, Alison Stanton, Robert M. Scheller, Thomas E. Dilts, Peter J. Weisberg, Carl N. Skinner, Jian Yang. 2014. Effectiveness of fuel treatments for mitigating wildfire risk and sequestering forest carbon: a case study in the Lake Tahoe Basin
- E. Louise Loudermilk, Robert Scheller, Peter Weisberg, Jian Yang, Thomas Dilts, Sarah Karam, Carl N. Skinner. 2013. Carbon dynamics in the future forest: the importance of long-term successional legacy and climate–fire interactions
- Eric E. Knapp, Carl N. Skinner, Malcolm P. North, Becky Estes. 2013. Long-term overstory and understory change following logging and fire exclusion in a Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forest
- Martin Ritchie, Eric E. Knapp, Carl N. Skinner. 2013. Snag longevity and surface fuel accumulation following post-fire logging in a ponderosa pine dominated forest
- James D. McIver, Scott L. Stephens, James K. Agee, Jamie Barbour, Ralph E. J. Boerner, Carl B. Edminster, Karen L. Erickson, Kerry L. Farris, Christopher J. Fettig, Carl E. Fiedler, Sally M. Haase, Stephen C. Hart, Jon E. Keeley, Eric E. Knapp, John F. Lehmkuhl, Jason J. Moghaddas, William Otrosina, Kenneth Outcalt, Dylan W. Schwilk, Carl N. Skinner, Tom Waldrop, C. Phillip Weatherspoon, Daniel Yaussy, Andrew Youngblood, Steve Zack. 2012. Ecological effects of alternative fuel-reduction treatments: highlights of the National Fire and Fire Surrogate study (FFS)
- Eric E. Knapp, Phillip C. Weatherspoon, Carl N. Skinner. 2012. Shrub seed banks in mixed conifer forests of northern California and the role of fire in regulating abundance
- 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
- Becky Estes, Eric E. Knapp, Carl N. Skinner, Fabian C.C. Uzoh. 2012. Seasonal variation in surface fuel moisture between unthinned and thinned mixed conifer forest, northern California, USA
- Carl N. Skinner, H. D. Safford, J. D. Miller, Eric E. Knapp, C. M. Ramirez. 2012. Trends and causes of severity, size, and number of fires in northwestern California, USA
- J. R. Miesel, R. E. J. Boerner, Carl N. Skinner. 2011. Soil nitrogen mineralization and enzymatic activities in fire and fire surrogate treatments in California
- Eric E. Knapp, J. Morgan Varner, Matt D. Busse, Carl N. Skinner, Carol J. Shestak. 2011. Behaviour and effects of prescribed fire in masticated fuelbeds
- David Perry, Paul F. Hessburg, Carl N. Skinner, Thomas Spies, Scott Stephens, Alan Henry Taylor, Jerry Franklin, Brenda McComb, Greg Riegel. 2011. The ecology of mixed severity fire regimes in Washington, Oregon, and Northern California
- Christy E. Briles, Cathy Whitlock, Carl N. Skinner, Jerry Mohr. 2011. Holocene forest development and maintenance on different substrates in the Klamath mountains, northern California, USA
- Robert F. Powers, Carl N. Skinner, Jianwei Zhang. 2010. To manage or not to manage: The role of silviculture in sequestering carbon in the specter of climate change
- 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
- Valerie Trouet, Alan H. Taylor, Eugene R. Wahl, Carl N. Skinner. 2010. Fire-climate interactions in the American west since 1400 CE
- Carl N. Skinner, Celeste S. Abbott, Danny Fry, Scott Stephens, Alan Taylor, Valerie Trouet. 2009. Human and climatic influences on fire occurrence in California's north coast range
- Jessica Miesel, Ralph Boerner, Carl N. Skinner. 2009. Mechanical restoration of California mixed-conifer forests: does it matter which trees are cut?
- Dylan W. Schwilk, Jon E. Keeley, Eric E. Knapp, James Mciver, John D. Bailey, Christopher J. Fettig, Carl E. Fiedler, Richy J. Harrod, Jason J. Moghaddas, Kenneth Outcalt, Carl N. Skinner, Scott L. Stephens, Tom Waldrop, Daniel Yaussy, Andrew Youngblood. 2009. The national Fire and Fire Surrogate study: effects of fuel reduction methods on forest vegetation structure and fuels
- Fabian C.C. Uzoh, Carl N. Skinner. 2009. Effects of creating two forest structures and using prescribed fire on coarse woody debris in northeastern California, USA
- Valerie Trouet, Alan H. Taylor, Andrew M. Carleton, Carl N. Skinner. 2009. Interannual variations in fire weather, fire extent, and synoptic-scale circulation patterns in northern California and Oregon
- Jay D. Miller, Eric E. Knapp, Carl H. Key, Carl N. Skinner, Clint J. Isbell, R. Max Creasy, Joseph W. Sherlock. 2009. Calibration and validation of the relative differenced Normalized Burn Ratio (RdNBR) to three measures of fire severity in the Sierra Nevada and Klamath Mountains, California, USA
- Eric E. Knapp, Becky Estes, Carl N. Skinner. 2009. Ecological effects of prescribed fire season: a literature review and synthesis for managers
- Scott L. Stephens, Jason J. Moghaddas, Carl Edminster, Carl E. Fiedler, Sally M. Haase, Michael G. Harrington, Jon E. Keeley, Eric E. Knapp, James D. McIver, Kerry Metlen, Carl N. Skinner, Andrew Youngblood. 2009. Fire treatment effects on vegetation structure, fuels, and potential fire severity in western U.S. forests
- A. H. Taylor, V. Trouet, Carl N. Skinner. 2008. Climatic influences on fire regimes in montane forests of the southern Cascades, California, USA
- Julie N. Symons, Dean H. K. Fairbanks, Carl N. Skinner. 2008. Influences of stand structure and fuel treatments on wildfire severity at Blacks Mountain Experimental Forest, northeastern California
- David A. Schmidt, Alan H. Taylor, Carl N. Skinner. 2008. The influence of fuels treatment and landscape arrangement on simulated fire behavior, southern Cascade Range, California
- Carl N. Skinner, Jack H. Burk, Michael G. Barbour, Ernesto Franco-Vizcaino, Scott L. Stephens. 2008. Influences of climate on fire regimes in montane forests of north-western Mexico
- Martin Ritchie, Carl N. Skinner, Todd Hamilton. 2007. Probability of wildfire-induced tree mortality in an interior pine forest of northern California: effects of thinning and prescribed fire
- Carl N. Skinner. 2007. Silviculture and forest management under a rapidly changing climate
- Andrew Youngblood, Heidi Bigler-Cole, Christopher J. Fettig, Carl Fiedler, Eric E. Knapp, John F. Lehmkuhl, Kenneth Outcalt, Carl N. Skinner, Scott L. Stephens, Thomas A. Waldrop. 2007. Making fire and fire surrogate science available: a summary of regional workshops with clients
- Valerie Trouet, Alan H. Taylor, Andrew M. Carleton, Carl N. Skinner. 2006. Fire-climate interactions in forests of the American Pacific Coast
- Carl N. Skinner, Alan H. Taylor. 2006. Southern cascades bioregion
- Gregg M. Riegel, Richard F. Miller, Carl N. Skinner, Sydney E. Smith. 2006. Northeastern plateaus bioregion
- Carl N. Skinner, Alan H. Taylor, James K. Agee. 2006. Klamath Mountains bioregion
- James K. Agee, Carl N. Skinner. 2005. Basic principles of forest fuel reduction treatments
- Carl N. Skinner. 2005. Reintroducing fire into the Blacks Mountain Research Natural Area: effects on fire hazard
- Cathy Whitlock, Carl N. Skinner, Patrick J. Bartlein, Thomas Minckley, Jerry A. Mohr. 2004. Comparison of charcoal and tree-ring records of recent fires in the eastern Klamath Mountains, California, USA
- Carl N. Skinner, Scott L. Stephens. 2004. Fire in the Sierra Nevada
- Carl N. Skinner. 2003. A tree-ring based fire history of riparian reserves in the Klamath Mountains.
- Alan H. Taylor, Carl N. Skinner. 2003. Spatial patterns and controls on historical fire regimes and forest structure in the Klamath Mountains
- Scott L. Stephens, Carl N. Skinner, Samantha J. Gill. 2003. A dendrochronology based fire history of Jeffry pine-mixed conifer forests in the Sierra San Pedro Martir, Mexico
- Carl N. Skinner. 2002. Influence of fire on dead woody material in forests of California and southwestern Oregon
- James K. Agee, Bernie Bahro, Mark A. Finney, Philip N. Omi, David B. Sapsis, Carl N. Skinner, Jan W. van Wagtendonk, C. Phillip Weatherspoon. 2000. The use of shaded fuelbreaks in landscape fire management
- Jerry A. Mohr, Cathy Whitlock, Carl N. Skinner. 2000. Postglacial vegetation and fire history, eastern Klamath Mountains, California, USA
- Steve Zack, William F. Laudenslayer, Luke George, Carl N. Skinner, William Oliver. 1999. A Prospectus on Restoring Late Successional Forest Structure to Eastside Pine Ecosystems Through Large-Scale, Interdisciplinary Research
- Alan H. Taylor, Carl N. Skinner. 1998. Fire history and landscape dynamics in a late-successional reserve in the Klamath Mountains, California, USA
- Connie I. Millar, Amy J. Lind, Rowan Rowntree, Carl N. Skinner, Jared Verner, Bill Zielinski, Robert Ziemer. 1998. Sierra Nevada Science Review
- Connie I. Millar, Amy J. Lind, Rowan Rowntree, Carl N. Skinner, Jared Verner, Bill Zielinski, Robert Ziemer. 1998. Sierra Nevada Science Review. Report of the Science Review Team charged to synthesize new information of rangewide urgency to the national forests of the Sierra Nevada.
- Carl N. Skinner, Chiru Chang. 1996. Fire regimes, past and present
- C. Phillip Weatherspoon, Carl N. Skinner. 1996. Landscape-level strategies for forest fuel management.
- C. Phillip Weatherspoon, Carl N. Skinner. 1995. An assessment of factors associated with damage to tree crowns from the 1987 wildfires in northern California
- Carl N. Skinner. 1995. Change in spatial characteristics of forest openings in the Klamath Mountains of northwestern California, USA
- William F. Laudenslayer, Carl N. Skinner. 1995. PAST CLIMATES, FORESTS, AND DISTURBANCES OF THE SIERRA NEVADA, CALIFORNIA: UNDERSTANDING THE PAST TO MANAGE FOR THE FUTURE
- Phil McDonald, Carl N. Skinner, Gary O. Fiddler. 1992. Ponderosa pine needle length: an early indicator of release treatment effectiveness
- C. Phillip Weatherspoon, George A. Almond, Carl N. Skinner. 1989. Tree-centered spot firing - a technique for prescribed burning beneath standing trees.
Other Publications
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https://research.fs.usda.gov/psw/understory/behavior-and-short-term-effects-fire-masticated-fuel-beds
Last updated March 10, 2026