Rachel Houtman, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• Bruno A. Aparicio, Michelle A. Day, Raymond Davis, Rachel Houtman, Meg A. Krawchuk. 2026. Exposure and carbon risk for mature and old-growth forests from severe wildfire in the Pacific Northwest, U.S.A.
• Andrew T. Hudak, Jennifer Bakken, Andrew J. Lister, Francisco Mauro, Matthew J Gregory, Karin Riley, Barry T. (Ty) Wilson, Maurizio Santoro, Sean P. Healey, Lei Ma, Yifan Yu, Benjamin C. Bright, John C. Byrne, Roy Mita, Rachel Houtman, John D. Shaw, Patrick A Fekety, Grant M. Domke, Brian F. Walters, David M. Bell, Aaron Weiskittel, Jeff W. Atkins, Laura Duncanson, Neha Hunka, Robert Kennedy, Chad Babcock, Sassan Saatchi, Brett Raczka, Carlos Silva, Hao Tang, George Hurtt. 2026. A quantitative evaluation of forest aboveground biomass density map products in Oregon, USA

Data and Tools

• Tool
  

  Analysis Ecosystem for Fire, Fuels, and Vegetation Management

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/products/dataandtools/analysis-ecosystem-fire-fuels-and-vegetation-management
• Dashboard
  

  Wildfire Risk to Carbon

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/products/dataandtools/wildfire-risk-carbon
• Dataset
  

  TreeMap: A tree-level model of United States forests

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/products/dataandtools/treemap-tree-level-model-united-states-forests

• 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

Articles

• Article
  

  New dashboard displays wildfire risk to carbon across the United States

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/articles/new-dashboard-displays-wildfire-risk-carbon-across-united-states

Multimedia

• Webinars

  Estimating wildfire carbon risk and annual carbon emissions in forests and rangelands across the continental US, circa 2014 and 2020

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/products/multimedia/webinars/estimating-wildfire-carbon-risk-and-annual-carbon-emissions