Multi-scale reconstructions of human-climate-fire interactions in mixed-conifer forests of the Northern Rockies

In the northern Rocky Mountains, dry to mesic forests broadly considered to have historically sustained mixed-severity fire regimes are increasingly targeted for fuel reduction treatments, despite a lack of information about historical forest conditions, wildfire dynamics, and the impact of treatments on ecosystem processes in these forests. This project focuses on understanding how human-climate-vegetation interactions and feedbacks have shaped mixed-severity fire regimes and how recent land-use and changing climatic conditions are influencing fire and forest dynamics in the northern Rocky Mountains.