Current Research Projects

• Fuel dynamics following restoration thinning and wildfire in secondary redwood forests
• Restoration of Baker Cypress forests following repeated wildfire
• Fuel dynamics following high severity wildfire in the Klamath Mountains
• Longevity of prescribed fire effectiveness in mixed-evergreen forests of Klamath Mountains
• Stand level factors affecting secondary redwood forests following wildfire

Past Research Projects

• Mitigating legacy tree mortality following prescribed fire in the Klamath Mountains
• Facultative serotiny, a mechanism for post-fire regeneration in non-serotinous conifers
• Effects of Douglas-fir encroachment on live and dead fuel moisture in an Oregon white oak woodland
• Effectiveness of variable density thinning and prescribed fire for promoting resistance to drought-induced bark beetle-caused tree mortality
• Long-term vegetation response to mechanical mastication in Whiskeytown National Recreation Area
• Potential impacts of biomass harvesting treatments on fuel hazard and greenhouse gas emissions
• Litter flammability of American chestnut and associate species
• Longer-term effectiveness of prescribed fire in different seasons to promote sugar pine resilience in the Sierra Nevada
• Post-fire regeneration and fuel loading in Baker cypress of northern California
• Old-growth sugar pine resiliency and mortality in a fire-excluded mixed-conifer forest
• Post-fire tree mortality model validation
• Fire history in redwood forests of Lower Prairie Creek
• Long-term fuel responses to thinning treatments in a young redwood forest