Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology
Yellowstone Ecoregion Mountain Pine Beetle project A range of wood-boring beetles (including the mountain pine beetle) have affected broad areas of the Rocky Mountains over the past two decades. These infestations are unprecedented in historical times, and correspond to a period of warming climate that has decreased winter mortality of beetles and led to latitudinal …
From late August through September 2011, the Pagami Creek fire burned approximately 38,000 hectares of boreal forest in and around the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in Minnesota, USA. The fire exhibited a wide range of behaviors across this ecologically diverse landscape where members of our lab, along with US Forest Service collaborators, had been …
We can observe and describe forest disturbances in a number of ways using satellite imagery, airborne observations, and field measurements. Our work in Upper Midwest and Great Lakes forests considers numerous disturbance types: severe storm winds, insect defoliation, fire, and various partial and clear-cut harvest treatments. We’ve collected a number of field measurement datasets in …