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| Highlight ID | Title | Strategic Program Area(s) | Year | Station |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 ID: 772 | A Climate Adaptation Strategy for Conservation and Management of Yellow-Cedar in Alaska A new report assesss past, current, and expected future condition of yellow-cedar forests on all land ownerships where yellow-cedar grows in Ala ... | Resource Management and Use | 2015 | PNW |
 ID: 1372 | Cheatagrass response to prescribed burning in Oregon studied over 10 years Scientists created a model to explain cheatgrass dynamics at different invasion stages, from local cheatgrass establishment to broader scale in ... | Invasive Species | 2017 | PNW |
 ID: 1369 | Climate change in the Rocky Mountains Major effects likely for the natural resources in the northern Rockies, although adaptation options are available to reduce negative outcomes. | Wildland Fire and Fuels Inventory and Monitoring Water, Air, and Soil Wildlife and Fish Resource Management and Use | 2017 | PNW |
 ID: 677 | Delivery of Smoke Science to Incident Operations Forest Service scientists, working with the Washington Office Fire and Aviation Management to support the Wildland Fire Air Quality Response Pro ... | Wildland Fire and Fuels Water, Air, and Soil | 2014 | PNW |
 ID: 765 | Disturbance and Regrowth in Southeast Alaska Forests Shows Spatial Patterning Southeast Alaska is gaining forest area on the northern side of mountain slopes, higher latitudes, and higher elevations while losing forest are ... | Resource Management and Use Inventory and Monitoring | 2015 | PNW |
 ID: 515 | Fire Combustion Experiment Produces Big Data Set to Validate a New Generation of Fire Models Three operational scale fires (about 494-988 acres) and six fine scale (about 328-656 foot blocks) replicate units at Eglin Air Force Base, Flor ... | Wildland Fire and Fuels | 2013 | PNW |
 ID: 1367 | Fire in the wake of sudden oak death Study predicts future flammability in plant communities where tanoak has been killed by sudden oak death. | Water, Air, and Soil Wildland Fire and Fuels Inventory and Monitoring Resource Management and Use | 2017 | PNW |
 ID: 1342 | Forest Service research supports Washington State’s Forest Resiliency Burning Pilot Project Forest Service researchers characterized fuel before and after prescribed burns in eastern Washington State and assessed post-fire tree mortalit ... | Wildland Fire and Fuels Inventory and Monitoring | 2017 | PNW |
 ID: 773 | Forest Structure Characteristics Within Barred Owl Home Ranges are Similar to Areas Used by Spotted Owls Competitive interactions with barred owls are an important factor contributing to the population decline of the threatened northern spotted owl. ... | Wildlife and Fish | 2015 | PNW |
 ID: 1187 | Mapping Coincidence of Landscape Exposure to Multiple Stressors Including Climate Change New maps factor in climate change and illustrate landscape exposure to additional stressors (wildfire potential, insects and disease risk, urban ... | Resource Management and Use | 2016 | PNW |
 ID: 74 | Mitigating Arctic Black Carbon Deposition Scientists identify meteorological conditions when black carbon does not travel to the Arctic | Wildland Fire and Fuels | 2012 | PNW |
 ID: 341 | More Scotch broom found where logging debris was removed Scotch broom, a nonnative, invasive species, is a severe competitor of young Douglas-fir. | Resource Management and Use | 2011 | PNW |
 ID: 678 | New Herbicides Developed to Fight Scotch Broom Scotch broom is a large, nonnative shrub that has invaded forest sites throughout the Pacific Northwest. Three recently developed herbicides pro ... | Invasive Species Resource Management and Use | 2014 | PNW |
 ID: 1346 | New insight to how exposure to sub-lethal temperatures affects trees When woody tree tissues reach 86 to 140 degrees Fahrenheit (30 to 60 degrees Celsius) during a fire, three physiological mechanisms may be trig ... | Wildland Fire and Fuels Resource Management and Use Inventory and Monitoring Water, Air, and Soil | 2017 | PNW |
 ID: 76 | New Techniques Improve National Emissions Inventory for Wildland Fire The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is using new techniques to create the next national emissions inventory for wildland fire | Wildland Fire and Fuels | 2012 | PNW |
 ID: 790 | Postfire Logging Reduces Future Surface Woody Fuels in Dry Coniferous Forests Severe wildfires create pulses of dead trees that influence future fuel loads, fire behavior, and fire effects as they decay and deposit surface ... | Wildland Fire and Fuels Resource Management and Use | 2015 | PNW |
ID: 78 | Predicting the Path of the Amber-Marked Birch Leaf Miner Scientists model future infestation of an invasive insect in Anchorage, AK | Invasive Species | 2012 | PNW |
ID: 342 | Presence of tanoak reduces Douglas-fir mortality from black-stain root disease Black-stain root disease is a native pathogen of conifers in the Pacific Northwest. The disease reduces growth and ultimately kills the infected ... | Resource Management and Use | 2011 | PNW |
 ID: 518 | Pros and Cons of Fuel Treatments Versus Periodic Wildfire Determined Hazardous fuel treatments in dry Western forests generally reduce carbon storage over time compared to periodic wildfires, but the treatments en ... | Wildland Fire and Fuels | 2013 | PNW |
 ID: 668 | Pygmy Rabbits Use Nutritional and Chemical Cues While Making Foraging Decisions Pygmy rabits are dietary specialists that feed on sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) and forage on specific plants more than others within a foraging pa ... | Wildlife and Fish Resource Management and Use | 2014 | PNW |
 ID: 1368 | Recent increases found in yellow-cedar in Alaska In most unmanaged forests in Alaska, yellow-cedar has recently increased, as measured by live tree basal area, and the average mortality rate ha ... | Inventory and Monitoring Outdoor Recreation | 2017 | PNW |
ID: 81 | Responding to Climate Change on National Forests A new guidebook provides a scientific foundation and framework for preparing for climate change | Resource Management and Use | 2012 | PNW |
 ID: 776 | Scientists Acquire Better Knowledge of Smoke Transport During Prescribed Burning in the Wildland-urban Interface of Bend, Oregon Smoke from prescribed fires in the Deschutes National Forest has negatively affected the city of Bend, Oregon, nine times over the past two year ... | Wildland Fire and Fuels Water, Air, and Soil | 2015 | PNW |
 ID: 238 | Scientists develop current and future habitat suitability maps for invasive tamarisk species Tamarisks are shrubs or small trees considered by some to be among the most aggressively invasive and potentially detrimental exotic plants in t ... | Invasive Species | 2010 | PNW |
 ID: 531 | Scientists Develop the First Estimates of Aboveground Carbon Flux and Storage in Trees Within the National Forests of Alaska While the Tongass National Forest had no detectable change in above-ground tree carbon, the Chugach National Forest had an average annual increa ... | Inventory and Monitoring | 2013 | PNW |
 ID: 75 | Scientists Find Cause of Yellow-cedar Death in Alaska's Coastal Forests Absence of snow to protect shallow roots results in roots freezing and extensive tree death | Resource Management and Use | 2012 | PNW |
 ID: 516 | Scientists Publish National and International Methods of Linking Particulate Matter in the Air to Potential Health Impacts from Wildfire Smoke Scientists with the Forest Service's Pacific Northwest Research Station pinpoint the limitations of using visual range measurement to estimate ... | Wildland Fire and Fuels Water, Air, and Soil | 2013 | PNW |
 ID: 525 | Scientists Study Salvage Logging After a Major Windstorm These results illustrate potential differences between the effects of salvage logging after windstorms and the effects of salvage logging after ... | Resource Management and Use | 2013 | PNW |
 ID: 534 | Scientists Uncover New Information About Tree Resistance to Sudden Oak Death Sterols and tannins in host tree tissues influence the growth and sporulation of sudden oak death pathogen. | Resource Management and Use | 2013 | PNW |
 ID: 520 | Some Logging Debris Cover Boosts Growth of Douglas-fir Seedlings on Low-nutrient Site Stem growth of Douglas-fir seedlings with 40 percent debris cover and competing vegetation was greater than that of seedlings with zero or 80 pe ... | Resource Management and Use | 2013 | PNW |
 ID: 517 | Statistical Models Improve Predictions of Fuel Consumption and Emissions During Prescribed Fires The scientists developed ecosystem- and season-specific statistical models for predicting fuel consumption from easily measured variables that i ... | Wildland Fire and Fuels | 2013 | PNW |
 ID: 84 | Testing Fuel Treatments in Boreal Forests A first-of-its-kind study tests the effects of fuel treatment on fuel consumption and fire behavior in Alaska's boreal forest | Wildland Fire and Fuels | 2012 | PNW |
 ID: 1427 | The Hot-Dry-Windy Index improves fire weather forecasting A new tool helps fire managers anticipate when wildfires could become erratic or dangerous. | Water, Air, and Soil Wildland Fire and Fuels Inventory and Monitoring Wildlife and Fish | 2018 | PNW |
 ID: 666 | Understanding Vegetation Vulnerability to Climate Change This synthesis paper reviews potential climate change impacts on Pacific Northwest vegetation and provides a scientific basis for developing vul ... | Resource Management and Use | 2014 | PNW |