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Led by scientists Roger Ottmar and Sim Larkin with the Pacific Northwest Research...
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It’s easy to assume that the forests on the western side of the Cascade Range are too wet to burn, but that’s changing. These lush coniferous...
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Mango, breadfruit, and many other tropical fruit trees are susceptible to brown root...
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Smoke from wildland fire is responsible for most of the hazardous air quality days...
Read MoreWe generate knowledge about the nature, causes, and consequences of large, rapid, or significant changes to ecosystems that potentially threaten societal values.
We develop and deliver innovative strategies, methods, and tools so people can understand, plan for, manage, or mitigate the changes, causes, and consequences of threats in the natural environment. We address biological, physical, social, and economic aspects of environmental change (like fire, climate, or species change) as disruptions to “normal” conditions threaten natural resource benefits people value.
Work in the program addresses five problems that provide a progression from fundamental understanding of threats; how processes interact across multiple scales; what thresholds (both ecological and social) are crossed when a potential threat becomes realized; what management strategies may be employed to address threats at multiple scales; and what conditions are likely to be important in the future.
