Researchers with the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of Texas at Austin recently studied New Mexico’s ...

Earth is a uniquely fire planet, and humanity a uniquely fire creature, and the ecology of their interactions is both ancient and profound. Fire is an ecological shape-shifter. As a reaction, not a ...

Join members of the Land Management team to learn about fire ecology and basic training for prescribed burn participation with Urban Ecology Center.

Based on a half-day symposium held during the Third International Partners in Flight Conference in Asilomar, Calif. in 2002. Contents Fire and avian ecology in North America : process influencing ...

Our fire ecology researchers help monitor the outcomes of prescribed burns to reduce the intensity of wildfire. As part of the statewide Prescribed Fire Monitoring Program, they observe how vegetation ...

"Woodpeckers, for example, are cavity nesters, so they make a hole in dead trees and raise their young there - and so you ...

Kathryn Barger’s mother used to tell her that “trees do make a community.” But given the flammability of Southern California, which will soon be rebuilding and replanting after massive destruction ...

In the study, published October 9, 2025 in the journal Fire Ecology, researchers from The Institute for Bird Populations, the National Park Service, and UCLA examined bird monitoring data spanning two ...

Temperatures are quickly cooling down, and we’ve seen the first set of snowfalls here in the Sierra.But for local fire crews, ...

In the mid-1960s, James Sweeney was a plant ecology professor at SFSU. He was passionate about his studies of plant communities and shared his passion with his students. I was too young and naive to ...