Donald McKenzie, PhD
Former Employee
Research Ecologist
Treesearch Publications
- 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
- Maureen C. Kennedy, Susan J. Prichard, Donald McKenzie, Nancy H. F. French. 2020. Quantifying how sources of uncertainty in combustible biomass propagate to prediction of wildland fire emissions
- Jeremy S. Littell, Donald McKenzie, Ho Yi Wan, Samuel A. Cushman. 2018. Climate change and future wildfire in the Western United States: an ecological approach to nonstationarity
- C. Alina Cansler, Donald McKenzie, Charles B. Halpern. 2018. Fire enhances the complexity of forest structure in alpine treeline ecotones
- Uma Shankar, Jeffrey P. Prestemon, Donald McKenzie, Kevin Talgo, Aijun Xiu, Mohammad Omary, Bok Haeng Baek, Dongmei Yang, William Vizuete. 2018. Projecting wildfire emissions over the south-eastern United States to mid-century
- Maureen C. Kennedy, Donald McKenzie, Christina Tague, Aubrey L. Dugger. 2017. Balancing uncertainty and complexity to incorporate fire spread in an eco-hydrological model
- Donald McKenzie, Jeremy S. Littell. 2017. Climate change and the eco-hydrology of fire: Will area burned increase in a warming western USA?
- Alina Cansler, Donald McKenzie, Charles B. Halpern. 2016. Area burned in alpine treeline ecotones reflects region-wide trends
- Jeffrey P. Prestemon, Uma Shankar, Aijun Xiu, K. Talgo, D. Yang, Ernest Dixon, Donald McKenzie, Karen Abt. 2016. Projecting wildfire area burned in the south-eastern United States, 2011-60
- Charles B. Halpern, Joseph A. Antos, Donald McKenzie, Annette M. Olson, Lara Souza. 2016. Past tree influence and prescribed fire mediate biotic interactions and community reassembly in a grassland-restoration experiment
- Donald McKenzie, Ajith H. Perera. 2015. Modeling wildfire regimes in forest landscapes: abstracting a complex reality
- E. Natasha Stavros, John Abatzoglou, Zachary Tane, Van Kane, Sander Veraverbeke, Bob McGaughey, James A. Lutz, Narasimhan K. Larkin, Donald McKenzie, E. Ashley Steel, Carlos Ramirez, Justin Boland, Dave Schimel. 2015. Regional likelihood of very large wildfires over the 21st century across the western United States: Motivation to study individual events like the Rim Fire, a unique opportunity with unprecedented remote sensing data
- 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
- Crystal Raymond, Donald McKenzie. 2014. Temporal carbon dynamics of forests in Washington, US: implications for ecological theory and carbon management
- Donald McKenzie, John T. Abatzoglou, E. Natasha Stavros, Narasimhan K. Larkin. 2014. Regional projections of the likelihood of very large wildland fires under a changing climate in the contiguous Western United States
- E. Natasha Stavros, John Abatzoglou, Narasimhan K. Larkin, Donald McKenzie, E. Ashley Steel. 2014. Climate and very large wildland fires in the contiguous western USA
- Nancy H.F. French, Donald McKenzie, Tyler Erickson, Benjamin Koziol, Michael Billmire, K. Endsley, Naomi K.Y. Scheinerman, Liza Jenkins, Mary E. Miller, Roger D. Ottmar, Susan Prichard. 2014. Modeling regional-scale wildland fire emissions with the wildland fire emissions information system
- E. Natasha Stavros, Donald McKenzie, Sim Larkin. 2014. The climate-wildfire-air quality system: interactions and feedbacks across spatial and temporal scales
- C. Alina Cansler, Donald McKenzie. 2014. Climate, fire size, and biophysical setting control fire severity and spatial pattern in the northern Cascade Range, USA
- Michael G. Ryan, James Vose, Paul J. Hanson, Louis Iverson, Chelcy F. Miniat, Charlie H. Luce, Lawrence E. Band, Steven L. Klein, Donald McKenzie, David N. Wear. 2014. Forest processes [Chapter 3]
- Donald McKenzie, Uma Shankar, Robert E. Keane, E. Natasha Stavros, Warren E. E. Heilman, Douglas G. Fox, Allen C. Riebau. 2014. Smoke consequences of new wildfire regimes driven by climate change
- Crystal Raymond, Donald McKenzie. 2013. Comparing algorithms for estimating foliar biomass of conifers in the Pacific Northwest
- Chad B. Wilsey, Joshua J. Lawler, Edwin P. Maurer, Donald McKenzie, Patricia A. Townsend, Richard Gwozdz, James A. Freund, Keala Hagmann, Karen M. Hutten. 2013. Tools for assessing climate impacts on fish and wildlife
- Louis Iverson, Donald McKenzie. 2013. Tree-species range shifts in a changing climate: detecting, modeling, assisting
- Crystal Raymond, Donald McKenzie. 2012. Carbon dynamics of forest in Washington, USA: 21st century projections based on climate-driven changes in fire regimes
- Shelley A. Evans, Charles B. Halpern, Donald McKenzie. 2012. The contributions of forest structure and substrate to bryophyte diversity and abundance in mature coniferous forests of the Pacific Northwest
- Nancy H.F. French, Roger D. Ottmar, Donald McKenzie. 2012. National database for calculating fuel available to wildfires
- Donald McKenzie, Maureen C. Kennedy. 2012. Power laws reveal phase transitions in landscape controls of fire regimes
- C. Alina Cansler, Donald McKenzie. 2012. How robust are burn severity indices when applied in a new region? Evaluation of alternate field-based and remote-sensing methods
- Donald McKenzie, Maureen Kennedy. 2011. Scaling laws and complexity in fire regimes [Chapter 2]
- Nancy H.F. French, William J. de Groot, Liza K. Jenkins, Brendan M. Rogers, Ernesto Alvarado, Brian Amiro, Bernardus De Jong, Scott Goetz, Elizabeth Hoy, Edward Hyer, Robert E. Keane, B.E. Law, Donald McKenzie, Steven G. McNulty, Roger D. Ottmar, Diego R. Perez-Salicrup, James Randerson, Kevin M. Robertson, Merritt Turetsky. 2011. Model comparisons for estimating carbon emissions from North American wildland fire
- Donald A. Falk, Emily K. Heyerdahl, Peter M. Brown, Calvin Farris, Peter Z. Fule, Donald McKenzie, Thomas W. Swetnam, Alan H. Taylor, Megan L. Van Horne. 2011. Multi-scale controls of historical forest-fire regimes: new insights from fire-scar networks
- Jeremy S. Littell, Donald McKenzie, Becky K. Kerns, Samuel A. Cushman, Charles Shaw. 2011. Managing uncertainty in climate-driven ecological models to inform adaptation to climate change
- Jeremy S. Littell, Elaine E. Oneil, Donald McKenzie, Jeffrey A. Hicke, James A. Lutz, Robert A. Norheim, Marketa M. Elsner. 2010. Forest ecosystems, disturbance, and climate change in Washington State, USA
- Donald McKenzie. 2010. The effects of climatic change and wildland fires on air quality in national parks and wilderness areas
- Jeremy S. Littell, Donald McKenzie, David L. Peterson, Anthony L. Westerling. 2009. Climate and wildfire area burned in western U.S. ecoprovinces, 1916-2003
- Donald McKenzie, David L. Peterson, Jeremy J. Littell. 2009. Global warming and stress complexes in forests of western North America
- Karen E. Kopper, Donald McKenzie, David L. Peterson. 2009. The evaluation of meta-analysis techniques for quantifying prescribed fire effects on fuel loadings.
- Donald McKenzie, Crystal Raymond, Samuel A. Cushman. 2008. Modeling understory vegetation and its response to fire [Chapter 15]
- Donald McKenzie, Amy E. Hessl. 2008. A neutral model of low-severity fire regimes
- Jill S. Baron, Craig D. Allen, Erica Fleishman, Lance Gunderson, Donald McKenzie, Laura Meyerson, Jill Oropeza, Nate Stephenson. 2008. National Parks
- Lara-Karena B. Kellogg, Donald McKenzie, David L. Peterson, Amy E. Hessl. 2008. Spatial models for inferring topographic controls on historical low-severity fire in the eastern Cascade Range of Washington, USA
- Emily K. Heyerdahl, Donald McKenzie, Lori D. Daniels, Amy E. Hessl, Jeremy S. Littell, Nathan J. Mantua. 2008. Climate drivers of regionally synchronous fires in the inland northwest (1651-1900)
- Samuel A. Cushman, Donald McKenzie, David L. Peterson, Jeremy Littell, Kevin S. McKelvey. 2007. Research agenda for integrated landscape modeling
- Donald A. Falk, Carol L. Miller, Donald McKenzie, Anne E. Black. 2007. Cross-scale analysis of fire regimes
- Donald McKenzie, C.L. Raymond, L.-K.B. Kellogg, R.A. Norheim, A.G. Andreu, A.C. Bayard, K.E. Kopper, E. Elman. 2007. Mapping fuels at multiple scales: landscape application of the fuel characteristic classification system.
- Crystal L. Raymond, Lara-Karena B. Kellogg, Donald McKenzie. 2006. Mapping Fuels on the Okanogan and Wenatchee National Forests
- Samuel A. Cushman, Donald McKenzie, David L. Peterson, Jeremy Littell, Kevin S. McKelvey. 2006. Research agenda for integrated landscape modeling
- Donald McKenzie, Susan O'Neill, N. Larkin, R.A. Norheim. 2006. Integrating models to predict regional haze from wildland fire.
- Donald McKenzie, Amy E. Hessl, Lara-Karena B. Kellogg. 2006. Using neutral models to identify constraints on low-severity fire regimes.
- Charles B. Halpern, Donald McKenzie, Shelley A. Evans, Douglas A. Maguire. 2005. Initial responses of forest understories to varying levels and patterns of green-tree retention.
- David L. Peterson, Morris C. Johnson, James K. Agee, Terrie B. Jain, Donald McKenzie, Elizabeth Reinhardt. 2005. Forest structure and fire hazard in dry forests of the Western United States
- David L. Peterson, Morris C. Johnson, James K. Agee, Terrie B. Jain, Donald McKenzie, Elizabeth Reinhardt. 2003. Fuels planning: Managing forest structure to reduce fire hazard
- Daniel L. Schmoldt, David L. Peterson, Robert E. Keane, James Lenihan, Donald McKenzie, David R. Weise, David V. Sandberg. 1999. Assessing the effects of fire disturbance on ecosystems: a scientific agenda for research and management.
- Donald McKenzie, David L. Peterson, Ernesto Alvarado. 1996. Predicting the effect of fire on large-scale vegetation patterns in North America.
- University of Washington, Ph.D., Landscape Ecology, 1998
- University of Washington, M.S., Forest Biometrics, 1994
- UCLA, M.F.A., Historical performance practices (music), 1979
- University of California Berkeley, B.A., Anthropology and Psychology, 1974
Last updated March 10, 2026