Justin S. Crotteau, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• Annabelle Moore, Neil Williams, Justin S. Crotteau, Sharon M. Hood. 2026. Multi-age, multi-use: Tips for transforming Rocky Mountain ponderosa pine forests from even-aged to multi-aged structures
• Neil G. Williams, Justin S. Crotteau, Sharon M. Hood, Cheri Hartless, Shelagh Fox. 2026. Silvicultural transformation to multi-aged structures in northern Rocky Mountain ponderosa pine stands
• Alexis A. Bernal, Scott L. Stephens, Mac A. Callaham, Brandon M. Collins, Justin S. Crotteau, Matthew B. Dickinson, Donald L. Hagan, Rachelle Hedges, Sharon M. Hood, Todd Hutchinson, Melanie K. Taylor, T. Adam. Coates. 2025. The national Fire and Fire Surrogate study: Effects of fuel treatments in the Western and Eastern United States after 20 years
• 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
• Justin S. Crotteau, Sharon M. Hood. 2024. Many benefits realized after a long-term fuel reduction and restoration study in western Montana
• Lou Dzierzak, Sharon M. Hood, Justin S. Crotteau, Cory Cleveland. 2024. The alchemy of addition: Cutting and burning together most effective in reducing fuels and improving forest resilience
• Sharon M. Hood, Justin S. Crotteau, Cory C. Cleveland. 2024. Long-term efficacy of fuel reduction and restoration treatments in Northern Rockies dry forests
• Justin S. Crotteau, William J. Beese, John-Pascal Berrill, Robert Deal, Constance A. Harrington, Kellen Nelson. 2024. Ecological silviculture for North American Pacific coastal temperate rainforests [Chapter 15]
• Neil Williams, Justin S. Crotteau, David K. Wright, Adele Underwood, Peter F. Stickney. 2023. Visualizing long-term forest recovery after management and wildfire at Miller Creek Demonstration Forest
• Kellen Nelson, Jeff Barnard, Preston Massingham, Justin S. Crotteau. 2023. Tree pruning improves tree form but not understory plant production in mixed stands of Sitka spruce and western hemlock, USA
• Lucretia E. E. Olson, Justin S. Crotteau, John R. Squires. 2023. Compounding effects of wildfire and forest management on Canada lynx: The importance of management mosaics
• Lucretia E. E. Olson, Justin S. Crotteau, Shelagh Fox, Gary Hanvey, Joseph D. Holbrook, Scott Jackson, John R. Squires. 2023. Effects of compound disturbance on Canada lynx and snowshoe hare: Wildfire and forest management influence timing and intensity of use
• Josh McDaniel, Dave E. Calkin, Justin S. Crotteau, Mark A. Finney, Sam Larkin, Michael Johnston, Serra J. Hoagland, Dylan Johnson, Sarah McCaffrey, John R. Squires, Shawn P. Urbanski. 2022. Getting more fire on the ground: Landscape-scale prescribed burning supported by science
• Justin S. Crotteau, David V. D'Amore, Jeff Barnard, Gary Lawton, Jessika McFarland. 2022. Commercial thinning strategies in southeast Alaska: establishment and effects of the Prince of Wales Commercial Thinning Study
• Justin S. Crotteau, Terrie B. Jain, Jason R. Reinhardt. 2022. Regenerating and tending under the vision for resilience and function in the free selection system
• Shelagh Fox, Cheri Hartless, Sharon M. Hood, Justin S. Crotteau. 2022. Transitioning from even-aged to multi-aged forest structure in second-growth ponderosa pine
• Andrew J. Larson, Michael S. Schaedel, Justin S. Crotteau, David K. Wright, Rebecca Durham, Alexander V Kumar, John Fothergill, Michael McTee, L. Scott Mills, Anne Orlando, Philip Ramsey, Andrew Reed, James Sparks. 2022. Early stand improvement for multiple ecosystem services using adaptive complexity thinning
• Jeff Barnard, Preston Massingham, Kellen Nelson, Justin S. Crotteau. 2022. Effect of pruning in Sitka spruce-western hemlock forests in the Pacific Temperate Rainforest
• Annelise Z. Rue-Johns, Justin S. Crotteau, David V. D'Amore, Jeffrey C. Barnard. 2021. Biomass regressions for understory species in young-growth Sitka spruce-western hemlock forests of southeast Alaska
• Adelaide C. Johnson, Audrey E. Clavijo, Glenn Hamar, Deborah-Aanutein Head, Andrew Thoms, Wayne Price, Arianna Lapke, Justin S. Crotteau, Lee K. Cerveny, Hailey Wilmer, Lillian Petershoare, Andrea Cook, Sienna Reid. 2021. Wood products for cultural uses: Sustaining native resilience and vital lifeways in Southeast Alaska, USA
• Woongsoon Jang, Justin S. Crotteau, Yvette K. Ortega, Sharon M. Hood, Christopher R. Keyes, Dean E. Pearson, Duncan C. Lutes, Anna Sala. 2021. Native and non-native understory vegetation responses to restoration treatments in a dry conifer forest over 23 years
• Justin S. Crotteau, Christopher R. Keyes. 2020. Restoration treatments improve overstory tree resistance attributes and growth in a ponderosa pine/Douglas-fir forest
• Justin S. Crotteau, Michael H. McClellan, Toni L. De Santo, Sheila R. Spores, Jeff Barnard. 2020. Sharing the load to develop young-growth silviculture for forage and biodiversity in southeast Alaska
• Justin S. Crotteau, Christopher R. Keyes, Sharon M. Hood, Andrew J. Larson. 2020. Vegetation dynamics following compound disturbance in a dry pine forest: fuel treatment then bark beetle outbreak
• Elaine K. Sutherland, Terrie B. Jain, David K. Wright, Melissa Jenkins, Christopher Keyes, Linda M. Nagel, Justin S. Crotteau. 2019. Initiating climate adaptation in a western larch forest
• Justin S. Crotteau, Annelise Z. Rue-Johns, Jeff Barnard. 2019. Effects on understory biomass and forage 8-10 years after precommercial thinning of Sitka spruce - western hemlock stands in southeast Alaska
• Justin S. Crotteau, Christopher R. Keyes, Sharon M. Hood, David L. R. Affleck, Anna Sala. 2018. Fuel dynamics after a bark beetle outbreak impacts experimental fuel treatments
• Justin S. Crotteau, Sharon M. Hood, Duncan C. Lutes, Christopher R. Keyes, Anna Sala, Michael G. Harrington. 2018. Management and succession at the Lick Creek Demonstration/Research Forest, Montana
• Justin S. Crotteau, Christopher R. Keyes, Sharon M. Hood, Andrew J. Larson, Elaine K. Sutherland, David K. Wright, Joel M. Egan. 2018. Stand dynamics 11 years after retention harvest in a lodgepole pine forest
• Justin S. Crotteau, Christopher R. Keyes, Elaine K. Sutherland, David K. Wright, Joel M. Egan. 2016. Forest fuels and potential fire behaviour 12 years after variable-retention harvest in lodgepole pine
• Justin S. Crotteau, J. Morgan Varner, John-Pascal Berrill, Martin Ritchie. 2015. Quercus kelloggii (Newb.) sprout response to fire severity in northern California
• Justin S. Crotteau, Martin Ritchie. 2014. Long-term stand growth of interior ponderosa pine stands in response to structural modifications and burning treatments in northeastern California
• Justin S. Crotteau, Martin Ritchie, J. Morgan Varner. 2014. A Mixed-Effects Heterogeneous Negative Binomial Model for Postfire Conifer Regeneration in Northeastern California, USA
• Justin S. Crotteau, Morgan Varner, Martin Ritchie. 2012. Post-fire regeneration across a fire severity gradient in the southern Cascades

Data and Tools

• Dataset
  

  Silvics of North America

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/products/dataandtools/silvics-north-america

• Program
  

  Forest and Woodland Ecosystems

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

  Rocky Mountain Research Station
• Project
  

  Removing barriers to prescribed burning to achieve tree mortality-related objectives

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/projects/removing-barriers-prescribed-burning
• Experimental Forest or Range
  

  Boise Basin Experimental Forest

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/forestsandranges/locations/bbef
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station
• Project
  

  Ponderosa Pine Restoration and Fuel Hazard Reduction at Lick Creek

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/projects/lickcreekrestoration
• Project
  

  Evaluating tree growth dynamics in restored ponderosa pine stands to develop maintenance and timber harvesting schedules

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/projects/bil-evaluating-impacts-spatially-complex-forest-structures-stand-dynamics-and
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station
• Project
  

  Using Experimental Forests to provide insight to the Wildfire Crisis Strategy landscapes

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/projects/bil-using-experimental-forests-provide-insight-wildfire-crisis-strategy-landscapes
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station
• Project
  

  Incorporating adaptation strategies across the interior West: Adaptive silviculture for climate change (ASCC) in Rocky Mountain Forest types

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/projects/bil-incorporating-adaptation-strategies-across-interior-west-adaptive-silviculture
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station
• Experimental Forest or Range
  

  Coram Experimental Forest

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/forestsandranges/locations/cef
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station
• Project
  

  Stewardship of western larch forests in an era of uncertainty

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

  Rocky Mountain Research Station
• Project
  

  Balancing timber production and deer forage in young-growth silviculture in southeast Alaska

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

  Rocky Mountain Research Station

Articles

• Article
  

  Miller Creek Demonstration Forest demonstrates forest recovery over 55 years

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/articles/miller-creek-demonstration-forest-demonstrates-forest-recovery-over-55-years
• Article
  

  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

Multimedia

• Webinars

  Fire Science You Can Use: Emerging Insights in Fire Ecology

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/products/multimedia/webinars/fire-science-you-can-use-emerging-insights-fire-ecology
• 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

• University of Montana, Ph.D., Forest and Conservation Sciences, 2017
• Humboldt State University, M.S., Forestry, 2011