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Science You Can Use is a publication of the USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station that summarizes and synthesizes current scientific research. Each issue delivers key science findings and management implications to people who make and influence decisions about managing land and natural resources in the Intermountain West and beyond.
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2026
Managing fire for more species: Landscape mosaics benefit plants and animals in Sierra Nevada forests
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Tipping the balance: Promoting beneficial fungi to keep a forest pathogen in check
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Restore ponderosa forests - and reduce fire risk? Study shows the path forward
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A labor of love: Supporting ranchers and range managers with the South Dakota Drought Tool
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How wildland fire incident catering can improve morale and nourish wildland firefighters
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Hatch me if you can: New hatchR tool helps predict and protect fish development
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Post-fire seeding in the Great Basin: Is more better? Depends on the weather
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Trails and tails: Using smart-phone GPS data to balance recreation and wildlife management
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Picture perfect: Inventory snapshots provide valuable forest data at a glance
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Wildfire and communities: Are there tradeoffs when promoting fire mitigation versus evacuation preparedness?
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Co-producing science with managers: Finding the right time-and-effort balance for those involved
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First come, first served or lottery - Informing recreation allocation strategies with visitor preferences
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A Big Fire with Low Fire Severity: Lessons from the Black Fire
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Raster Tools: Leveraging spatial analysis and AI towards a fire-resilient future, in minutes
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Selecting a focal species under the 2012 Planning Rule? A new focal species toolkit streamlines the process
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It’s Alive! “Living Maps” offer a state-of-the-art wildlife habitat monitoring system
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Quantifying Danger: New data on wildland firefighter injuries
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2025
Roosts and Woodrats: Forest restoration can provide both nesting habitat and food for spotted owls in the Sierra Nevada
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Trees in Distress: Prefire drought increases postfire mortality
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Birds of a Feather Benefit from Fire Together: How prescribed burning can benefit ground-nesting birds
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Build like a Beaver: Evaluation of stream restoration success based on plant traits
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Clearing the Air: The truth about smoldering duff
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A panoramic picture of fires in ponderosa pine ecosystems
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Big Data on a Little Chip: New eDNA tools save time and money on invasive species detection and monitoring
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Preparing for Wildfire: Meeting communities where they’re at
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Bee Nourished: How pollen nutrition shapes bee foraging habits and what it means for restoration
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How Human-generated Noise Disrupts Wildlife: The unseen impact of outdoor recreation
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Restoring natural conditions through the return of human-ignited fire
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Survive and Thrive: Identifying factors that enhance the growth and survival of tree seedlings planted after wildfire
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2024
Biochar is Ready for Prime Time: Ground-truthed decision trees for land managers
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A Brief History of Trees: The National Land Cover Database Tree Canopy Cover data now available annually
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Growing Consensus: Diverse stakeholders collaborate on easy-to-use guide for restoring riparian forests
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Wildfire Risk 101
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Twenty years of science and management with LANDFIRE
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When More Blackberries is a Bad Thing: Invasive plant management support
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StockSmart Tool: Big data for big landscape grazing decisionmaking
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Prickly Questions: What is fire’s place in the Sonoran desert scrub community?
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Fire Refugia: Predicting locations of forest resistance and recruitment in a fire prone world
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What do we know about forest treatments and fire? Photos and long-term studies help us understand
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Flames and Rapid Feedback: How focus groups shaped wildfire response during COVID-19
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Fall Fires Bring Many Microbes and Surprise Guests: Fall prescribed burns can build healthy ecosystems on sagebrush rangeland
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Trees Dying, Dangers Rising: Major tree mortality events rapidly increase forest fuels and snag hazards
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Funnel Focal Analysis: Exploring risks in the wildland urban interface
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Anything to Conserve Moisture: Seedlings planted after wildfire benefit from shade, north aspects, and depressions
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Taking Stock with the Resources Planning Act: The outlook for natural resources in the United States and the Rocky Mountain Region
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Smoke 101 and differences between wildfire and prescribed fire smoke in the western U.S.
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The Story in the Understory: Mechanical treatments stimulate expansion of native understory plants in dry conifer forests
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Promoting Healthy Forests: Limber pine in the Rockies is vulnerable to long-term decline
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Burning Insights: How wildfires reshape the soil microbiome and impact soil health and forest regeneration
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“Sack Lunch” for Seedlings: Fall fertilization of rangeland shrub seedlings to improve outplanting success
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The Alchemy of Addition: Cutting and burning together most effective in reducing fuels and improving forest resilience
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Burning Questions Answered: New review examines 30 years of fuel treatment effects on wildfire severity
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GRAIP-lite: Taking the easy street to road erosion estimates
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Streams, springs, and fens! Assessing riparian and groundwater-dependent ecosystems for forest plan revision and beyond
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Some Good News on Climate Change: High mountain streams act as strongholds for cold-water species
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Fire Weather Alert System Mobile App (FWAS): Realtime data could save lives on the fireline
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The Devil Is in the Details: Understanding community acceptance of fuels treatments
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Misconceptions Around Strategy: Managing fire response and public communication to support risk-based decisionmaking
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What do bees need? Understanding food and nesting sites in an ecotone
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Taking Stock of Old Growth: The first nationally consistent inventory method using FIA data
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Where Trees Meet the Sage: Optimizing pinyon-juniper management for imperiled sagebrush and woodland birds
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Prescribed Fire and Wilderness: Barriers and opportunities in a time of change
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Drought Conditioning: Improving environmental resilience and outplanting success with nursery-grown ponderosa pine seedlings
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Don’t Judge a Lamprey by Its Teeth: Genetic analysis shows need to reconsider species classification, possibly influencing conservation decisions
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The effects of timber harvest on grizzly bear habitat use and diet
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TreeMap is a Tree-Level Model of U.S. Forests: New data delivery and visualization improvements make it easier to use
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Wildfire and Resilient Landscapes: New tools for detailed analyses
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2023
Understanding Wildfire as a Dynamic System: A new comprehensive book on wildland fire behavior
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Eyes in the Sky: Using drones for forest monitoring
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How effective are landscape scale fuel treatments?
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From Threat to Opportunity: Exploring risk-based fuel treatment to safeguard communities and promote ecosystem health
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Mountain Goats and Recreation—Effects on an alpine sky island
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Post-Fire Field Guide: Create and use post-fire soil burn severity maps
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The Trouble with Noxious Weeds: Predicting herbicide resistance
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Sometimes Simple Works: The value of rapid parcel-level wildfire risk assessments
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Not on Our Watch: Scientists and managers rush to save high-elevation, five-needle pines
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Smoke: How new emissions data could enable more prescribed fire
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Isolation Consequences: Researchers discover Olympic Peninsula cougars are becoming more isolated based on genetic evidence
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Compounding Effects of Wildfire and Forest Management on Canada Lynx: The importance of management mosaics
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Stepping Stones: How will the world’s protected areas support species undergoing climate-induced range shifts?
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Keeping Eyes on the Prize: Laying the groundwork for sustainable biomass utilization in the Southwest
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Why invest in biomass? The benefits of biomass markets in the Southwest
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Delivering timely fire science to managers via regional Fire Science Exchanges
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Can fuel treatments change how a wildfire burns across a landscape?
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Beetle/Fire Double Whammy: Even tough-as-nails lodgepole pine may struggle to recover after wildfires
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Doubling Down: A new molecular taxonomy more than doubles the number of sculpin species
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Spoiler Alert: Mexican spotted owl habitat trends in the Southwestern United States
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The Safe Separation Distance Evaluator: Is my safety zone big enough?
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Of Bees and Blooms: A new scorecard for selecting pollinator-friendly plants in restoration
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Heads Up in a Dead Forest: Using the snag hazard map to support safety and strategic planning for fire responders
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Radial Thinning: It may not be as beneficial as hoped
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Riparian Forest Restoration: A consensus-based guide for land managers
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Assessing wildfire risk and mitigation opportunities in the sagebrush biome
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2022
Getting More Fire on the Ground: Landscape-scale prescribed burning supported by science
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Tracing the Source: How did invasive northern pike arrive in the Columbia River Basin?
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Looking to the past to plan for future wildfire response
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Birds & Burns: Can prescribed fires limit wildfire severity while maintaining fire’s ecological importance to bird species?
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The Shape of Streams to Come: New decision tools for assessing watershed sensitivity and ecological resilience in the Great Basin
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Wildfire: Helping aspen get one step ahead of a warming climate
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Unmasking an Underground Killer: Trees at high risk of root disease pinpointed with new remote sensing methods
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Hitting the Target Plant: Guiding principles for post-disturbance reforestation in a changing climate
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White Pine Plantations in Moist Forests: Do they make sense with increased wildfire potential?
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Biochar Basics: An A-to-Z guide to biochar production, use, and benefits
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Nighttime Fire Activity Is on the Rise in the United States: Posing greater risks to firefighters and communities
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Restoration Through Science-based Collaboration: How research and management reversed declines of Idaho westslope cutthroat trout
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Resources to improve the efficiencies of forest operations
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Restoration Catch-22: Overcoming issues with seed predation by small mammals when trying to restore habitat
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Is this flight necessary? A new framework for fire aviation decision support that improves efficiency through analytics
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Shedding Light on Shedded Cells: Using eDNA Sampling for surveillance of invasive species
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There’s More to Harvesting Than Green Timber and Sawlogs: Engineering forest operations for 21st-century forest management
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Muddy Waters: Reducing post-fire erosion in an intensifying fire environment
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How a Forest Disappears: Conversion of forest to nonforest vegetation following wildfire
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Balancing bird habitat and conifer removal in the Great Basin
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Accounting for the benefits of public lands
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Recent megafires provide a tipping point for desertification of conifer ecosystems
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The OBIWAN App: Estimating property-level carbon storage using NASA’s GEDI lidar
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A modern approach to quantifying ungulate carrying capacity
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Exploring the Interagency Fuel Treatment Decision Support System (IFTDSS)
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2021
Forests, Fire, and Faucets: What we are learning about lingering water quality effects of high-severity wildfires
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The Rapidly Vanishing Pinyon Jays: Understanding their habitat use may be the key to saving them
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Do you know where your rangeland carbon is? New approach for estimating rangeland carbon stocks helps managers plan climate change mitigation strategies
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Simple, Fast, and Cheap: A new photoload sequence building technique for fuel load estimates
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Resilience Test: Can ponderosa pine bounce back after high-severity fire?
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High and Dry: Quickly assessing forage losses in western rangelands during drought
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Seeing the Forest AND the Trees: TreeMap provides a tree-level forest model
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Timber and Tracks: Practices for limiting soil disturbance during harvest operation
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Understanding and managing pinyon and juniper woodlands in a changing climate
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Climbing With Climate Change: Increasing aridity is forcing some treelines to retreat uphill
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Harbingers of Change: Arizona sky islands offer unique opportunities to understand climate change, carbon, fire, and ecological transition
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Microscale Wind Modeling: WindNinja for fire management
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Beetle outbreaks in subalpine forests and what they mean for snowmelt
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Forest Understories Became the Story: Lynx, bark beetle mortality, and salvage logging
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If a tree falls in the forest … snagfall dynamics in western forests more than a decade after a severe beetle outbreak
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It Is Crowded in Here: How open forests have disappeared and why we should bring them back
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Seeing the Big Picture: Long term studies at Lick Creek demonstrate how fuel treatments impact a changing forest
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Timing It Right: Maximizing range management effectiveness with PhenoMap
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Need to Manage Management Decisions About Carbon: There is a dashboard for that
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Pollinator-friendly plants for restoration
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Fire Severity: Mapping past fires and predicting the future
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Dirt Goes Downhill: Are we making better post-wildfire erosion control treatment decisions?
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Putting Forest Inventory and Analysis data to work in forest planning and monitoring
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PhenoMap: Providing weekly vegetation development monitoring for effective management
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2020
Through the Smoke: Spotted owls, wildfire, and forest restoration
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Looking Into the Past: How reconstructing historical forest conditions can help future restoration efforts
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Location, Location, Location. Scale, Scale, Scale: Mexican spotted owl habitat
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Is mastication right for your site? Science-based decision trees for forest managers
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FireCLIME VA: A new fire and climate vulnerability assessment tool for the U.S. Southwest
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MSO 101: A synthesis of the ecology of the Mexican spotted owl keeps on giving
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Know Your Smoke: Updated smoke modeling tool estimates higher particulate emissions from wildfire than previously predicted
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Resources for Postfire Response: Empowering land managers with new After Fire Toolkit
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Hearing Every Voice in the Room: Social science for public engagement during forest planning
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New landscape change monitoring system tool helps us understand and visualize landscape-level changes over time
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A new community-based tool to assess wildfire risk
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When the Fire Starts: A science-based framework for risk-based incident response
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Where's the biomass? A new approach for quantifying biomass and carbon in the Western United States
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Saving Holmgren's Milkvetch: A new approach for imperiled species management
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New conversion of FIA data simplifies use in Forest Vegetation Simulator
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The Wildfire SAFE App: Delivering real-time data to improve wildfire management
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Watering the Forests for the Trees: Water yield and changes in forest cover
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New science synthesis to inform pinyon and juniper woodlands management in the Western United States
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“It’s All Up From Here”: Forest openings and seedling growth in western white pine restoration
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New California Plateaus Science Synthesis: Science supporting dry forest and rangeland planning
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Rethinking the Possible: Applying long-term datasets to estimate historic salmon abundance in the Middle Fork Salmon River
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Warmer and Drier: How vulnerable are southwestern U.S. ecosystems to climate change?
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Vulnerable, Valuable, Variable: Science-based assessments of riparian and groundwater-dependent ecosystems
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One year after launch, eDNAtlas proves its worth
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Black and White and Shed All Over: How eDNA analysis can help to answer our species questions
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Post-fire native species seed mixes are effective at keeping out cheatgrass in the Great Basin
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Making Sense of Big Data: Putting Forest Inventory and Analysis to work in forest planning
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Taking the Long View: Mountain pine beetles as agents of change
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Asking "What-if" Questions: New ST-Sim tool helps managers forecast future rangeland conditions
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Morphology is better than size for revealing a tree’s age on Colorado’s Front Range
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No Fish Left Behind: Best practices for using environmental DNA sampling to inform fish eradication efforts
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Synergies between the new bioeconomy and fuel treatment for forest restoration
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2019
Of Woodpeckers and Harvests: Finding compatibility between habitat and salvage logging
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A Double Whammy: Climate change and stand-replacing wildfires
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Everyone In: A road map for science-based, collaborative restoration of western quaking aspen
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Is that tree dead? Quantifying fire-killed trees to inform salvage and forest management
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In the Pipeline: A new report on the effects of oil and gas development on the biggest National Grassland
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The Big Picture: New perspectives on restoring landscapes
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A go-to guide for your mastication questions
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Getting Climate-Smart with Seeds: How a new software tool helps prepare landscapes for expected future conditions
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Homes on the Range: Helping to understand residential development of U.S. rangelands
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Sage Advice for Managers: A new, collaborative science framework for conservation and restoration of the sagebrush biome
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The Organic Truth: What 22 years of monitoring reveals about forest soil resiliency on the Kootenai National Forest
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Fishers and martens and lynx, oh my! Multiregional, goal efficient monitoring of mesocarnivores
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Winter Sports and Wildlife: Can Canada lynx and winter recreation share the same slope?
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2018
Jumpstarting recovery of Wyoming big sagebrush and other native plants out on the range
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From Expensive to Efficient: New eDNAtlas shares nationwide aquatic species information
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Consequences of an Endless Summer: Untangling the link between summer precipitation and western wildfires
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Research Runs Through It: A fresh look at wild and scenic rivers
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A Feather in Their Cap: Using citizen monitoring to track post-wildfire bird communities in the Arizona Sky Islands
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A World in Pixels: How new research is helping to predict probability of high-severity fire
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Warming and Warnings: Assessing climate change vulnerability in the Rocky Mountain Region
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Mulch Matters: Mulching fuels treatments promoted understory plant communities in Colorado forests
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Sex in the Sagebrush: How new research can help protect greater sage-grouse mating areas
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Fishing for Climate Data: How recent research is helping forecast changes in salmon and trout habitat
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Keeping it Wild: Asking the right questions to guide wilderness management
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Predicting the future to save whitebark pine
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Building resilience in Colorado Front Range forests for the future
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Back to the Future: Building resilience in Colorado Front Range forests using research findings and a new guide for restoration of ponderosa and dry-mixed conifer landscapes
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2017
Streamwater Nitrogen and Forest Dynamics Following a Mountain Pine Beetle Epidemic: Insights from three decades of research at Fraser Experimental Forest, CO
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Where's the beef? Predicting the effects of climate change on cattle production in western U.S. rangelands
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Northern Goshawks: A 20 year study of ecology and habitat on the Kaibab Plateau
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Painting a picture across the landscape with ModelMap
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Learn from the Burn: The High Park Fire 5 years later
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Preempting the Pathogen: Blister rust and proactive management of high-elevation pines
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Don’t Bust the Biological Soil Crust: Preserving and restoring an important desert resource
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2016
Wildland Fire: Nature’s fuel treatment
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Protecting the Source: Tools to evaluate fuel treatment cost vs. water quality protection
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Here Today, Here Tomorrow: Managing forests for fisher habitat in the Northern Rockies
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Living with Fire: How social scientists are helping wildland-urban interface communities reduce wildfire risk
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Road Scholars for the Western States: Protecting natural areas by improving road management research
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Burgeoning Biomass: Creating efficient and sustainable forest bioenergy technologies in the Rockies, part II
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2015
Fire and Forethought: Fire effects syntheses are a powerful tool for planning and management across resource fields
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Slash from the Past: Rehabilitating pile burn scars
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2014
From Watersheds to the Web: Online tools for modeling forest soil erosion
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Burgeoning Biomass: Creating efficient and sustainable forest biomass supply chains in the Rockies
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Climate change, crowd-sourcing, and conserving aquatic biotas in the Rocky Mountains this century
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Toadflax Stem Miners and Gallers: The original weed whackers
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Our Relationship with a Dynamic Landscape: Understanding the 2013 Northern Colorado Flood
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Revisiting Disturbance: A new guide for keeping dry mixed conifer forests healthy through fuel management
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2013
Coming to a Landscape Near You: Natural resource changes in the Interior West
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Fire on the Mountain: What motivates homeowners to reduce their wildfire risk?
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Seeing Red: New tools for mapping and understanding fire severity
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Our forests in the [water] balance
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Return of the King: Western white pine conservation and restoration in a changing climate
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Upwardly Mobile in the Western U.S. Desert: Blackbrush shrublands respond to a changing climate
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2012
Wildfire Triage: Targeting mitigation based on social, economic, and ecological values
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From Death Comes Life: Recovery and revolution in the wake of epidemic outbreaks of mountain pine beetle
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