Jesse D. Young, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• Dung Nguyen, Yu Wei, Erin J. Belval, Jesse D. Young, Christopher D. O'Connor, Christopher J. Dunn, Dave E. Calkin. 2025. Optimizing fuel break management for core habitat protection against wildfires in the northern Great Basin
• Alexander Arkowitz, Scott Ritter, Matthew P. Thompson, Jesse D. Young, Brad Pietruszka, David E. Calkin. 2025. Quality assured spatial dataset of wildfire containment firelines and engagement outcomes 2017 to 2024
• Dung Nguyen, Yu Wei, Erin J. Belval, Matthew P. Thompson, Benjamin M. Gannon, Jesse D. Young, Christopher D. O'Connor, Dave E. Calkin. 2024. An optimization model to prioritize fuel treatments within a landscape fuel break network
• Jesse D. Young, Erin J. Belval, Benjamin Gannon, Yu Wei, Christopher D. O'Connor, Christopher Dunn, Bradley Pietruszka, Dave E. Calkin, Matthew P. Thompson. 2024. The cost of operational complexity: A causal assessment of pre-fire mitigation and wildfire suppression
• Lou Dzierzak, Jesse D. Young, Yu Wei. 2024. Funnel focal analysis: Exploring risks in the wildland urban interface
• Jesse D. Young, Alan Ager. 2023. Resource objective wildfire leveraged to restore old growth forest structure while stabilizing carbon stocks in the southwestern United States
• Bradley Pietruszka, Jesse D. Young, Karen C. Short, Lise A. St. Denis, Matthew P. Thompson, Dave E. Calkin. 2023. Consequential lightning‑caused wildfires and the “let burn” narrative
• Benjamin Gannon, Yu Wei, Erin J. Belval, Jesse D. Young, Matthew P. Thompson, Christopher D. O'Connor, Dave E. Calkin, Christopher Dunn. 2023. A quantitative analysis of fuel break effectiveness drivers in Southern California National Forests
• Yu Wei, Benjamin Gannon, Jesse D. Young, Erin J. Belval, Matthew P. Thompson, Christopher D. O'Connor, Dave E. Calkin. 2023. Estimating WUI exposure probability to a nearby wildfire
• Stephen D. Fillmore, Rachel Bean, Jose Iniguez, Alexander M. Evans, Sepideh Dadashi, Jesse D. Young, Marc D. Meyer, Andrea E. Thode, Shaula J. Hedwall, Sarah M. McCaffrey. 2022. Comparing geography and severity of managed wildfires in California and the Southwest USA before and after the implementation of the 2009 policy guidance
• Jesse D. Young, Alan Ager, Andrea E. Thode. 2022. Using wildfire as a management strategy to restore resiliency to ponderosa pine forests in the southwestern United States
• Stephanie E. Mueller, Andrea E. Thode, Ellis Q. Margolis, Larissa L. Yocom, Jesse D. Young, Jose Iniguez. 2020. Climate relationships with increasing wildfire in the southwestern US from 1984 to 2015
• Jesse D. Young, Alexander M. Evans, Jose Iniguez, Andrea Thode, Marc D. Meyer, Shaula J. Hedwall, Sarah M. McCaffrey, Patrick Shin, Ching-Hsun Huang. 2020. Effects of policy change on wildland fire management strategies: Evidence for a paradigm shift in the western US?
• Jesse D. Young, Andrea E. Thode, Ching-Hsun Huang, Alan Ager, Pete Z. Fule. 2019. Strategic application of wildland fire suppression in the southwestern United States
• Jesse D. Young, Nathaniel Anderson, Helen T. Naughton. 2018. Influence of policy, air quality, and local attitudes toward renewable energy on the adoption of woody biomass heating systems
• Jesse D. Young, Nathaniel Anderson, Helen T. Naughton, Katrina Mullan. 2018. Economic and policy factors driving adoption of institutional woody biomass heating systems in the United States
• Keith Stockmann, Nathaniel Anderson, Jesse D. Young, Kenneth E. Skog, Sean P. Healey, Dan Loeffler, Edward Butler, J. Greg Jones, James Morrison. 2014. Estimates of carbon stored in harvested wood products from United States Forest Service Rocky Mountain Region, 1906-2012
• Keith Stockmann, Nathaniel Anderson, Jesse D. Young, Kenneth E. Skog, Sean P. Healey, Dan Loeffler, Edward Butler, J. Greg Jones, James Morrison. 2014. Estimates of carbon stored in harvested wood products from United States Forest Service's Sierra Nevada Bio-Regional Assessment Area of the Pacific Southwest Region, 1909-2012
• Edward Butler, Keith Stockmann, Nathaniel Anderson, Jesse D. Young, Kenneth E. Skog, Sean P. Healey, Dan Loeffler, J. Greg Jones, James Morrison. 2014. Estimates of carbon stored in harvested wood products from United States Forest Service Southwestern Region, 1909-2012
• Keith Stockmann, Nathaniel Anderson, Jesse D. Young, Kenneth E. Skog, Sean P. Healey, Dan Loeffler, Edward Butler, J. Greg Jones, James Morrison. 2014. Estimates of carbon stored in harvested wood products from United States Forest Service Intermountain Region, 1911-2012
• Keith Stockmann, Nathaniel Anderson, Jesse D. Young, Kenneth E. Skog, Sean P. Healey, Dan Loeffler, Edward Butler, J. Greg Jones, James Morrison. 2014. Estimates of carbon stored in harvested wood products from United States Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region, 1909-2012
• Nathaniel Anderson, Jesse D. Young, K. Stockmann, Kenneth E. Skog, Sean P. Healey, D. Loeffler, Greg G. Jones, J. Morrison. 2013. Regional and forest-level estimates of carbon stored in harvested wood products from the United States Forest Service Northern Region, 1906-2010

Data and Tools

• Tool
  

  Landscape Simulator (LSim): Modeling Fire for Resilient Forest Futures

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/products/dataandtools/landscape-simulator-lsim-modeling-fire-resilient-forest-futures

• Program
  

  Human Dimensions

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/programs/humandimensions
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station
• Project
  

  Wildfire risk reduction in priority firesheds using Potential Operational Delineations (PODs)

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/projects/bil-wildfire-risk-reduction-priority-firesheds-using-potential-operational
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station
• Project
  

  The LSim forest landscape model: A case study of application on the Deschutes National Forest

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/projects/lsim
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station
• Center or Group
  

  Wildfire Risk Management Science Team

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/centers/wrms
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station

Articles

• Article
  

  Fireline effectiveness: A data-driven approach

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/articles/fireline-effectiveness-data-driven-approach
• Article
  

  Can resource objective wildfire be leveraged to restore old growth forests while stabilizing carbon?

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/articles/can-resource-objective-wildfire-be-leveraged-restore-old-growth-forests-while
• Article
  

  Using wildfire to restore resiliency to dry pine ecosystems

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/articles/using-wildfire-restore-resiliency-dry-pine-ecosystems

Multimedia

• Webinars

  Fire Science You Can Use: Science for Safe Wildfire Operations

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/products/multimedia/webinars/fire-science-you-can-use-science-safe-wildfire-operations

• Northern Arizona University, Doctor Of Forest Science, Forest Management and Economics, 2019
• University of Montana, Master Of Arts, Economics, 2015
• University of Montana, Bachelor Of Arts, Economics, 2013