Jens Stevens

Nat'l Program Lead, Wildland Fire and Fuels Research

Sustainable Forest Management Research

201 14th Street SW
Mailstop 1115
Washington, DC 20250
United States

0000-0002-2234-1960

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Education

University of California Davis, Ph.D, Ecology, 2014
University of Vermont, M.S., Plant Biology, 2008
Carleton College, B.A., Biology, 2006

Featured Publications

Stevens, Jens T.; Haffey, Collin M.; Coop, Jonathan D.; Fornwalt, Paula J.; Yocom, Larissa ; Allen, Craig D.; Bradley, Anne ; Burney, Owen T.; Carril, Dennis ; Chambers, Marin E.; Chapman, Teresa B.; Haire, Sandra L.; Hurteau, Matthew D.; Iniguez, Jose M.; Margolis, Ellis Q.; Marks, Christopher ; Marshall, Laura A. E.; Rodman, Kyle C.; Stevens-Rumann, Camille S.; Thode, Andrea E.; Walker, Jessica J.. 2021. Tamm Review: Postfire landscape management in frequent-fire conifer forests of the southwestern United States
Stevens, Jens T.; Boisramé, Gabrielle F. S.; Rakhmatulina, Ekaterina ; Thompson, Sally E.; Collins, Brandon M.; Stephens, Scott L.. 2020. Forest vegetation change and its impacts on soil water following 47 Years of managed wildfire

Other Publications

Stephens, Scott L.; Battaglia, Mike A.; Churchill, Derek J.; Collins, Brandon M.; Coppoletta, Michelle ; Hoffman, Chad M.; Lydersen, Jamie M.; North, Malcolm P.; Parsons, Russell A.; Ritter, Scott M.; Stevens, Jens T.. 2021. Forest restoration and fuels reduction: Convergent or divergent?
Singleton, Megan P.; Thode, Andrea E.; Meador, Andrew J. Sanchez; Iniguez, Jose M.; Stevens, Jens T.. 2021. Management strategy influences landscape patterns of high-severity burn patches in the southwestern United States
Prichard, Susan J.; Hessburg, Paul F.; Hagmann, R. Keala; Povak, Nicholas A.; Dobrowski, Solomon Z.; Hurteau, Matthew D.; Kane, Van R.; Keane, Robert E.; Kobziar, Leda N.; Kolden, Crystal A.; North, Malcolm ; Parks, Sean A.; Safford, Hugh D.; Stevens, Jens T.; Yocom, Larissa L.; Churchill, Derek J.; Gray, Robert W.; Huffman, David W.; Lake, Frank K.; Khatri‐Chhetri, Pratima. 2021. Adapting western North American forests to climate change and wildfires: 10 common questions
Hagmann, R. K.; Hessburg, P. F.; Prichard, S. J.; Povak, N. A.; Brown, P. M.; Fulé, P. Z.; Keane, R. E.; Knapp, E. E.; Lydersen, J. M.; Metlen, K. L.; Reilly, M. J.; Sánchez Meador, A. J.; Stephens, S. L.; Stevens, J. T.; Taylor, A. H.; Yocom, L. L.; Battaglia, M. A.; Churchill, D. J.; Daniels, L. D.; Falk, D. A.; Henson, P. ; Johnston, J. D.; Krawchuk, M. A.; Levine, C. R.; Meigs, G. W.; Merschel, A. G.; North, M. P.; Safford, Hugh; Swetnam, T. W.; Waltz, A. E. M.. 2021. Evidence for widespread changes in the structure, composition, and fire regimes of western North American forests
Cansler, C. Alina; Hood, Sharon M.; Varner, J. Morgan; van Mantgem, Phillip J.; Agne, Michelle C.; Andrus, Robert A.; Ayres, Matthew P.; Ayres, Bruce D.; Bakker, Jonathan D.; Battaglia, Michael A.; Bentz, Barbara J.; Breece, Carolyn R.; Brown, James K.; Cluck, Daniel R.; Coleman, Tom W.; Corace, R. Gregory; Covington, W. Wallace; Cram, Douglas S.; Cronan, James B.; Crouse, Joseph E.; Das, Adrian J.; Davis, Ryan S.; Dickinson, Darci M.; Fitzgerald, Stephen A.; Fulé, Peter Z.; Ganio, Lisa M.; Grayson, Lindsay M.; Halpern, Charles B.; Hanula, Jim L.; Harvey, Brian J.; Kevin Hiers, J. ; Huffman, David W.; Keifer, MaryBeth ; Keyser, Tara L.; Kobziar, Leda N.; Kolb, Thomas E.; Kolden, Crystal A.; Kopper, Karen E.; Kreitler, Jason R.; Kreye, Jesse K.; Latimer, Andrew M.; Lerch, Andrew P.; Lombardero, Maria J.; McDaniel, Virginia L.; McHugh, Charles W.; McMillin, Joel D.; Moghaddas, Jason J.; O’Brien, Joseph J.; Perrakis, Daniel D. B.; Peterson, David W.; Prichard, Susan J.; Progar, Robert A.; Raffa, Kenneth F.; Reinhardt, Elizabeth D.; Restaino, Joseph C.; Roccaforte, John P.; Rogers, Brendan M.; Ryan, Kevin C.; Safford, Hugh D.; Santoro, Alyson E.; Shearman, Timothy M.; Shumate, Alice M.; Sieg, Carolyn H.; Smith, Sheri L.; Smith, Rebecca J.; Stephenson, Nathan L.; Stuever, Mary ; Stevens, Jens T.; Stoddard, Michael T.; Thies, Walter G.; Vaillant, Nicole M.; Weiss, Shelby A.; Westlind, Douglas J.; Woolley, Travis J.; Wright, Micah C.. 2020. The Fire and Tree Mortality Database, for empirical modeling of individual tree mortality after fire
North, Malcolm P.; Stevens, Jens T.; Greene, David F.; Coppoletta, Michelle ; Knapp, Eric E.; Latimer, Andrew M.; Restaino, Christina M.; Tompkins, Ryan E.; Welch, Kevin R.; York, Rob A.; Young, Derek J.N.; Axelson, Jodi N.; Buckley, Tom N.; Estes, Becky L.; Hager, Rachel N.; Long, Jonathan W.; Meyer, Marc D.; Ostoja, Steven M.; Safford, Hugh D.; Shive, Kristen L.; Tubbesing, Carmen L.; Vice, Heather ; Walsh, Dana ; Werner, Chhaya M.; Wyrsch, Peter. 2019. Tamm Review: Reforestation for resilience in dry western U.S. forests
Stevens, Jens T.; Miller, Jesse E. D.; Fornwalt, Paula J.. 2019. Fire severity and changing composition of forest understory plant communities
Earles, J. Mason; Stevens, Jens T.; Sperling, Or ; Orozco, Jessica ; North, Malcolm P.; Zwieniecki, Maciej A.. 2018. Extreme mid-winter drought weakens tree hydraulic-carbohydrate systems and slows growth
Collins, Brandon M.; Stevens, Jens T.; Miller, Jay D.; Stephens, Scott L.; Brown, Peter M.; North, Malcolm P.. 2017. Alternative characterization of forest fire regimes: incorporating spatial patterns
Stevens, Jens T.; Collins, Brandon M.; Miller, Jay D.; North, Malcolm P.; Stephens, Scott L.. 2017. Changing spatial patterns of stand-replacing fire in California conifer forests
Safford, Hugh D.; Stevens, Jens T.. 2017. Natural range of variation for yellow pine and mixed-conifer forests in the Sierra Nevada, southern Cascades, and Modoc and Inyo National Forests, California, USA
Stevens, Jens T.; Safford, Hugh D.; North, Malcolm P.; Fried, Jeremy S.; Gray, Andrew N.; Brown, Peter M.; Dolanc, Christopher R.; Dobrowski, Solomon Z.; Falk, Donald A.; Farris, Calvin A.; Franklin, Jerry F.; Fulé, Peter Z.; Hagmann, R. Keala; Knapp, Eric E.; Miller, Jay D.; Smith, Douglas F.; Swetnam, Thomas W.; Taylor, Alan H.; Jones, Julia A.. 2016. Average stand age from forest inventory plots does not describe historical fire regimes in ponderosa pine and mixed-conifer forests of western North America
Stevens, Jens T.; Collins, Brandon M.; Long, Jonathan W.; North, Malcolm P.; Prichard, Susan J.; Tarnay, Leland W.; White, Angela M.. 2016. Evaluating potential trade-offs among fuel treatment strategies in mixed-conifer forests of the Sierra Nevada

Citations of Non-Forest Service Publications

Moore, Ian B.; Collins, Brandon M.; Foster, Daniel E.; Tompkins, Ryan E.; Stevens, Jens T.; Stephens, Scott L. 2021. Variability in wildland fuel patches following high-severity fire and post-fire treatments in the northern Sierra Nevada. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 30(12): 921-932. https://doi.org/10.1071/WF20131
Collins, Brandon M.; Bernal, Alexis; York, Robert A.; Stevens, Jens T.; Juska, Andrew; Stephens, Scott L. 2021. Mixed-conifer forest reference conditions for privately owned timberland in the southern Cascade Range. Ecological Applications. 31(7): e02400. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2400
Stevens, Jens T.; Kling, Matthew M.; Schwilk, Dylan W.; Varner, J. Morgan; Kane, Jeffrey M.; Gillespie, Thomas. 2020. Biogeography of fire regimes in western U.S. conifer forests: A trait-based approach. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 29(5): 944-955. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13079
Brown, Sabrina R.; Baysinger, Ashley; Brown, Peter M.; Cheek, Justin L.; Diez, Jeffrey M.; Gentry, Christopher M.; Grant, Thomas A.; St. Jacques, Jeannine-Marie; Jordan, David A.; Leef, Morgan L.; Rourke, Mary K.; Speer, James H.; Spradlin, Carrie E.; Stevens, Jens T.; Stone, Jeffery R.; Van Winkle, Brian; Zeibig-Kichas, Nickolas E. 2020. Fire History Across Forest Types in the Southern Beartooth Mountains, Wyoming. Tree-Ring Research. 76(1): 27-39. https://doi.org/10.3959/TRR2018-11
Stephens, Scott L; Stevens, Jens T; Collins, Brandon M; York, Robert A; Lydersen, Jamie M. 2018. Historical and modern landscape forest structure in fir (Abies)-dominated mixed conifer forests in the northern Sierra Nevada, USA. Fire Ecology. 14(2): 7. https://doi.org/10.1186/s42408-018-0008-6
Fry, Danny L.; Stevens, Jens T.; Potter, Andrew T.; Collins, Brandon M.; Stephens, Scott L. 2018. Surface fuel accumulation and decomposition in old-growth pine-mixed conifer forests, northwestern Mexico. Fire Ecology. 14(2): 6. https://doi.org/10.1186/s42408-018-0017-5
Hagmann, R. Keala; Stevens, Jens T.; Lydersen, Jamie M.; Collins, Brandon M.; Battles, John J.; Hessburg, Paul F.; Levine, Carrie R.; Merschel, Andrew G.; Stephens, Scott L.; Taylor, Alan H.; Franklin, Jerry F.; Johnson, Debora L.; Johnson, K. Norman. 2018. Improving the use of early timber inventories in reconstructing historical dry forests and fire in the western United States: Comment. Ecosphere. 9(7): e02232. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2232