Wildland fire, smoke exposure, human health, and environmental justice need to be integrated into forest restoration and management. Current Environmental Health Reports, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40572-022-00355-7

Tortorelli, C., Kerns, B.K., Krawchuk, M.A. 2022. The invasive annual grass, Ventenata dubia, is insensitive to experimental removal of above-ground resident biomass across a productivity gradient. Biological Invasions (Early View) 10.1007/s10530-022-02823-5

Fire Refugia in Mature and Old Forests of the Pacific Northwest

Oregon State University scientists and collaborators from throughout the West say that thinning and prescribed burning are crucial parts of adaptive management for seasonally dry, fire-dependent forests such as those east of the Cascade crest.

Downing, W.M., Meigs, G.W., Gregory, M., and Krawchuk, M.A. 2021. Where and why do conifer forests persist in refugia through multiple fire events? Global Change Biology. Online first, doi:10.1111/GCB.15655

Announcing two graduate fellowships at Oregon State University for Fall, 2021

Collaborative governance and fire ecology for wildfire management in Oregon

Talucci, A.C., Matosziuk, L.M., Hatten, J.A., and Krawchuk, M.A. 2020. An added boost in pyrogenic carbon when wildfires burn forests with high prefire mortality. Fire Ecology 16(21) https://doi.org/10.1186/s42408-020-00081-1

Tortorelli, C., Krawchuk, M.A., and Kerns, B. 2020. Expanding the invasion footprint: Ventenata dubia and relationships to wildfire, environment, and plant communities in the Inland Northwest.

The June 2020 issues of ESA's Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment is a Special Issue on Climate Change Refugia: https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15409309/2020/18/5. Great stuff.

Check out our paper on "Disturbance refugia within mosaics of forest fire, drought, and insect outbreaks" https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2190