Scott Ritter, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• Alexander Arkowitz, Scott Ritter, Matthew P. Thompson, Jesse D. Young, Bradley Pietruszka, Dave E. Calkin. 2025. Quality assured spatial dataset of wildfire containment firelines and engagement outcomes 2017 to 2024
• Adam L. Mahood, Camille S. Stevens-Rumann, Allison E. Rhea, Scott Ritter, Kevin Barrett, Paula J. Fornwalt, David M. Barnard. 2025. Forest restoration treatments increase native plant diversity but open the door to invasion in the Colorado Front Range
• Chad M. Hoffman, Adam L. Atchley, Sophie R. Bonner, Scott Ritter, Joseph J. O'Brien, Rodman R. Linn. 2024. Evaluating crown scorch predictions from a computational fluid dynamics wildland fire simulator
• Laura Hanna, Wade Tinkham, Michael A. Battaglia, Jody C. Vogeler, Scott Ritter, Chad M. Hoffman. 2024. Characterizing heterogeneous forest structure in ponderosa pine forests via UAS‑derived structure from motion
• Scott Ritter, Chad M. Hoffman, Michael A. Battaglia, William E. Mell, Rodman Linn. 2023. Vertical and horizontal crown fuel continuity influences group-scale ignition and fuel consumption
• Scott Ritter, Chad M. Hoffman, Michael A. Battaglia, Terrie B. Jain. 2022. Restoration and fuel hazard reduction result in equivalent reductions in crown fire behavior in dry conifer forests
• Jonathan D. Coop, Sean A. Parks, Camille S. Stevens-Rumann, Scott Ritter, Chad M. Hoffman. 2022. Extreme fire spread events and area burned under recent and future climate in the western USA
• Scott L. Stephens, Michael A. Battaglia, Derek J. Churchill, Brandon M. Collins, Michelle Coppoletta, Chad M. Hoffman, Jamie Lydersen, Malcolm P. North, Russell A. Parsons, Scott Ritter, Jens Stevens. 2021. Forest restoration and fuels reduction: Convergent or divergent?
• Scott Ritter, Chad M. Hoffman, Michael A. Battaglia, Camille S. Stevens-Rumann, William E. Mell. 2020. Fine-scale fire patterns mediate forest structure in frequent-fire ecosystems

Citations of Non-Forest Service Publications

• Atchley, A.L., Hoffman, C.M., Bonner, S.R., Ritter, S.M., O’Brien, J. and Linn, R.R., 2024. Evaluating crown scorch predictions from a computational fluid dynamics wildland fire simulator. Fire Ecology, 20(1), p.71.Ritter, S., Morici, K. and Stevens-Rumann, C., 2023. Efficacy of prescribed fire as a fuel reduction treatment in the Colorado Front Range. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 53(6), pp.455-462.Ritter, S.M., Hoffman, C.M., Stewart, J.E. and Zimmerman, T., 2018. The influence of prescribed crown fire on lodgepole pine dwarf mistletoe (Arceuthobium americanum) populations 33 years post‐fire. Forest Pathology, 48(3), p.e12419.Ritter, S.M., Hoffman, C.M., Ex, S.A. and Stewart, J.E., 2017. Impacts of lodgepole pine dwarf mistletoe (Arceuthobium americanum) infestation on stand structure and fuel load in lodgepole pine dominated forests in central Colorado. Botany, 95(3), pp.307-321.

• Center or Group
  

  Wildfire Risk Management Science Team

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

  Rocky Mountain Research Station
• Project
  

  Creating linear fuel treatments that effectively protect communities and wildland firefighters on the Colorado Front Range

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/projects/bil-creating-linear-fuel-treatments-effectively-protect-communities-and-wildland
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station

• Colorado State University, Ph.D., Forest Science, 2022
• Colorado State University, M.S., Forest Science, 2017
• University of Vermont, B.S., Environmental Science, 2011