Jose Iniguez
Flagstaff, AZ 86001
United States
- Assessing the impacts of multiple fires on age and spatial tree patterns in the Gila National Forest.
- Assessing tree spatial patterns, patch size and other landscape attributes related to reference/historical conditions in an un-harvested experimental forest.
- Comparing pre and post wildfire forest conditions across burned landscapes in the sky islands of southeastern Arizona.
One aspect that is unique to the United States in terms of land management is the concept of public lands. That is, lands that are managed for the good of the people. Public lands are a critical part of American life; therefore it is the responsibility of land management agencies to sustain these lands for current and future generations. A critical part of managing for sustainability is understanding the historical processes (including disturbances) that our current ecosystems evolved with. Our job as scientists is to provide managers information, knowledge and advice that will allow them to make land management decisions that will result in healthy and sustainable forest.
My research interests are in understanding how fire impacts forested ecosystems across temporal and spatial scales. Working at large spatial scales is facilitated by also expanding the temporal scale. I use dendrochronological techniques that allow me to re-construct fire history and age structure patterns both in stands and across landscapes. The next step is to apply the information we have learned from historical data to contemporary landscapes to restore both forest structure and natural fires.
- Lead author on a scientific paper titled "Topography affected landscape fire history patterns in southern Arizona" which describes how differences in fire size at the landscape scale impacted fire intervals at the stand level. This work has contributed to our understanding of how fires can be influenced by landscape topography and has led to the development of fire landscape (firescapes) which mangers use when planning and applying fire treatments.
- Lead author on another scientific paper titled "Temporally and spatially mixed-fire regimes in the Rincon Peak Sky Island" which describes how fire regimes change with time as a result of stand replacing fires that fragment fuels across the landscape isolating certain forest patches. This work has broadened our understanding of landscape fire patterns and how they can be impacted by landscape fuel arrangements and climate change.
- Developed an identification key and classification system for different cover types in the diverse forest of the sky island region of southeastern Arizona.
- Northern Arizona University, B.S., Forestry, 1996
- Northern Arizona University, M.S., Forestry, 2001
- University of Arizona, Ph.D., Natural Resources, 2006
- Iniguez, Jose M.; Swetnam, Thomas W.; Baisa, Christopher H.. 2009. Spatially and temporally variable fire regime on Rincon Peak, Arizona, USA
- Iniguez, Jose M.; Swetnam, Thomas W.; Yool, Stephen R.. 2008. Topography affected landscape fire history patterns in southern Arizona, USA
- Iniguez, Jose M.; Ganey, Joseph L.; Daugherty, Peter J.; Bailey, John D.. 2005. Using cluster analysis and a classification and regression tree model to developed cover types in the Sky Islands of southeastern Arizona [Abstract]
- Iniguez, Jose M.; Ganey, Joseph L.; Daughtery, Peter J.; Bailey, John D.. 2005. Using cluster analysis and a classification and regression tree model to developed cover types in the Sky Islands of southeastern Arizona
- Cerano-Paredes, Julian ; Iniguez, Jose M.; Villanueva-Diaz, Jose ; Vazquez-Selem, Lorenzo ; Cervantes-Martinez, Rosalinda ; Esquivel-Arriaga, Gerardo ; Franco-Ramos, Osvaldo ; Rodríguez-Trejo, Dante A.. 2021. Effects of climate on historical fire regimes (1451-2013) in Pinus hartwegii forests of Cofre de Perote National Park, Veracruz, Mexico
- Ganey, Joseph L.; Iniguez, Jose M.; Vojta, Scott C.; Iniguez, Amy R.. 2021. Twenty years of drought‐mediated change in snag populations in mixed‐conifer and ponderosa pine forests in Northern Arizona
- 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
- Cerano-Paredes, Julián ; Rodríguez-Trejo, Dante A.; Iniguez, José M.; Cervantes-Martínez, Rosalinda ; Villanueva-Díaz, José ; Franco-Ramos, Osvaldo. 2021. Fire history (1896-2013) in an Abies religiosa forest in the Sierra Norte of Puebla, Mexico
- 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
- Mueller, Stephanie E.; Thode, Andrea E.; Margolis, Ellis Q.; Yocom, Larissa L.; Young, Jesse D.; Iniguez, Jose M.. 2020. Climate relationships with increasing wildfire in the southwestern US from 1984 to 2015
- Owen, Suzanne M.; Sieg, Carolyn H.; Fule, Peter Z.; Gehring, Catherine A.; Baggett, L. ; Iniguez, Jose M.; Fornwalt, Paula J.; Battaglia, Mike A.. 2020. Persistent effects of fire severity on ponderosa pine regeneration niches and seedling growth
- Young, Jesse D.; Evans, Alexander M.; Iniguez, Jose M.; Thode, Andrea ; Meyer, Marc D.; Hedwall, Shaula J.; McCaffrey, Sarah ; Shin, Patrick ; Huang, Ching-Hsun. 2020. Effects of policy change on wildland fire management strategies: Evidence for a paradigm shift in the western US?
- Villarreal, Miguel L.; Iniguez, Jose M.; Flesch, Aaron D.; Sanderlin, Jamie S.; Montano, Citlali Cortes; Conrad, Caroline R.; Haire, Sandra L.. 2020. Contemporary fire regimes provide a critical perspective on restoration needs in the Mexico-United States borderlands
- Cerano-Paredes, Julian ; Iniguez, Jose M.; Villanueva-Diaz, Jose ; Cervantes-Martinez, Rosalinda ; Cambron-Sandoval, Víctor H.; Estrada-Arellano, Josue R.; Esquivel-Arriaga, Gerardo ; Franco-Ramos, Osvaldo ; Vazquez-Selem, Lorenzo ; Cardoza-Martínez, Gabriel F.. 2020. Using tree-rings to reconstruct fire history information from forested areas
- Villarreal, Miguel L.; Haire, Sandra L.; Iniguez, Jose M.; Montano, Citlali Cortes; Poitras, Travis B.. 2019. Distant neighbors: Recent wildfire patterns of the Madrean Sky Islands of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico
- Singleton, Megan P.; Thode, Andrea E.; Meadora, Andrew J. Sanchez; Iniguez, Jose M.. 2019. Increasing trends in high-severity fire in the southwestern USA from 1984 to 2015
- Iniguez, Jose M.; Fowler, James F.; Moser, W. Keith; Sieg, Carolyn H.; Baggett, L. Scott; Shin, Patrick. 2019. Tree and opening spatial patterns vary by tree density in two old-growth remnant ponderosa pine forests in Northern Arizona, USA
- Malone, Sparkle L.; Fornwalt, Paula J.; Battaglia, Mike A.; Chambers, Marin E.; Iniguez, Jose M.; Sieg, Carolyn H.. 2018. Mixed-severity fire fosters heterogeneous spatial patterns of conifer regeneration in a dry conifer forest
- Ganey, Joseph L; Iniguez, Jose M.; Sanderlin, Jamie S.; Block, William M.. 2017. Developing a monitoring program for bird populations in the Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona, using citizen observers: Initial stages
- Owen, Suzanne M.; Sieg, Carolyn H.; Meador, Andrew J. Sanchez; Fule, Peter Z.; Iniguez, Jose M.; Baggett, L. Scott; Fornwalt, Paula J.; Battaglia, Michael A.. 2017. Spatial patterns of ponderosa pine regeneration in high-severity burn patches
- Ziegler, Justin P.; Hoffman, Chad M.; Fornwalt, Paula J.; Sieg, Carolyn H.; Battaglia, Michael A.; Chambers, Marin E.; Iniguez, Jose M.. 2017. Tree regeneration spatial patterns in ponderosa pine forests following stand-replacing fire: Influence of topography and neighbors
- Ganey, Joseph L.; Iniguez, Jose M.; Hedwall, Shaula; Block, William M.; Ward, James P., Jr..; Jonnes, Ryan S.; Rawlinson, Todd A.; Kyle, Sean C.; Apprill, Darrell L.. 2016. Evaluating desired conditions for Mexican spotted owl nesting and roosting habitat
- Iniguez, Jose M.; Swetnam, Thomas W.; Baisan, Christopher H.. 2016. Fire history and moisture influences on historical forest age structure in the sky islands of southern Arizona, USA
- Ganey, Joseph L.; Block, William M.; Sanderlin, Jamie S.; Iniguez, Jose M.. 2015. Comparative nest-site habitat of painted redstarts and red-faced warblers in the Madrean Sky Islands of southeastern Arizona
- Hunter, Molly E.; Iniguez, Jose M.; Farris, Calvin A.. 2014. Historical and current fire management practices in two wilderness areas in the southwestern United States: The Saguaro Wilderness Area and the Gila-Aldo Leopold Wilderness Complex
- Sanderlin, Jamie S.; Block, William M.; Ganey, Joseph L.; Iniguez, Jose M.. 2013. Preliminary assessment of species richness and avian community dynamics in the Madrean Sky Islands, Arizona
- Hunter, Molly E.; Iniguez, Jose M.; Lentile, Leigh B.. 2011. Short- and long-term effects on fuels, forest structure, and wildfire potential from prescribed fire and resource benefit fire in southwestern forests, USA

Can Managed Fires Restore Forests at Landscape Scales? Lessons from Two Southwestern Wilderness Areas

Remnant Old-growth Ponderosa Pine Forests Provide Insights on Spatial Patterns

Spatial patterns of ponderosa pine regeneration in high-severity burn patches
