Fuel and restoration treatments seeking to mitigate the likelihood of uncharacteristic high‐severity wildfires in forests with historically frequent, low‐severity fire regimes are increasingly common, but long‐term treatment effects on fuels, aboveground carbon, plant community structure, ecosystem resilience, and other ecosystem attributes are understudied. We present 20‐year responses to thinning and prescribed burning treatments commonly used in dry, low‐elevation forests of the western United States from a long‐term study site in the Northern Rockies that is part of the National Fire and Fire Surrogate Study. We provide a comprehensive synthesis of short‐term (<4 years) and mid‐term (<14 years) results from previous findings. We then place these results in the context of a mountain pine beetle (MPB;
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- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10477964
- Publisher / Repository:
- Elsevier
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Forest Ecology and Management
- Volume:
- 546
- Issue:
- C
- ISSN:
- 0378-1127
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 121347
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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