In deciding to keep or fell a forest stand given its age, the risk of loss of timber through wildfire is an important …

Quantifying factors giving rise to temporal variation in forest fires is important for advancing scientific … understanding and improving fire prevention. We demonstrate that eighty percent of the large year-to-year variation in forest area … first unified treatment of climatic factors and human activities that affect forest area burned. …

late 2009—international forest and climate negotiations have failed to produce a legally binding treaty addressing global … forest management activities. This failure is due in large part to a lack of U.S. leadership. Though U.S. participation in … ongoing forest and climate negotiations is essential, scholars have not fully explored the potential limiting effects of …